Bob Valentine (referee)

Robert Bonar "Bob" Valentine (born 10 May 1939 in Dundee) is a former football referee from Scotland. He is mostly known for supervising two matches in the 1982 World Cup in Spain: the infamous "Great Gijon Swindle" between West Germany and Austria, and the second-round match between Poland and the USSR.

He was also one of the linesmen (the other was Bruno Galler) for the classic semi-final that year between France and West Germany at the Estadio Sanchez Pizjuan in Seville.

Valentine also refereed the Euro 84 match between France and Belgium at the Stade de la Beaujoire in Nantes, and the Euro 88 match between West Germany and Denmark at the Parkstadion in Gelsenkirchen.

After his refereeing retirement, Valentine became the Scottish FA's Head of Refereeing. Outside of football, he worked as a print compositor.

References

Referees at the 1982 FIFA World Cup

AFC	Ibrahim Youssef Al-Doy Thomson Chan

CAF	Yousef Alghoul Benjamin Dwomoh Belaïd Lacarne

CONCACAF	Rómulo Méndez Luis Paulino Siles David Socha

CONMEBOL	Gilberto Aristizábal Luis Barrancos Arnaldo Cézar Coelho Gastón Castro Juan Daniel Cardellino Arturo Ithurralde Enrique Labo Revoredo Héctor Ortiz Mario Rubio Vázquez

OFC	Tony Boskovic

UEFA	Charles Corver Vojtech Christov Augusto Lamo Castillo Paolo Casarin Bogdan Dotchev Walter Eschweiler Erik Fredriksson António Garrido Bruno Galler Abraham Klein Henning Lund-Sørensen Damir Matovinović Malcolm Moffatt Károly Palotai Alexis Ponnet Adolf Prokop Nicolae Rainea Myroslav Stupar Bob Valentine Michel Vautrot Clive White Franz Wöhrer

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