Referee Anthony Taylor could do without old grey whistlers’ comments | Daniel Taylor
Noisy former officials have added to the local difficulty of a referee who is Manchester-born but an Altrincham fan taking charge of United’s trip to LiverpoolIt is going back a few years now but I can still remember the sense of awkwardness, sitting in the press box at Stamford Bridge one day, and seeing Mark Halsey, off-duty, greeting Gary Cahill before one Chelsea match with the kind of bearhug you would not normally expect to see between a referee and a player.Cahill had previously played for Bolton Wanderers and Halsey used to train with the club, something the authorities no longer allow of referees. Halsey had his own column in the Bolton Evening News, referring to “Davo” (Kevin Davies), “Speedo”...