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Last night’s linesman?

Posted by Augustus <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Augustus' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 19, 2025, 2:50 pm

Ok, bear with me on this one, but here is my conspiracy theory.
The linesman’s name is Lee Betts. He, apparently, gave the penalty and ignored the ball going out of play for a corner by about 3 miles.
A quick Google search shows that he lives in the Norfolk area.
This is confirmed by a Norwich Evening News article from December 2022 reported on him visiting a college in Norwich to give a presentation. The report indicates that he is local to the Norwich / Norfolk area (going to school / college there, etc.). Also, he is a member of the Norwich Referees Association.
Search for the name Lee Betts on Facebook and the first result that appears is for someone of that name living in Bury St Edmunds. A distance of only 42 miles from Norwich. The Facebook profile is very sparse. Only 3 friends. No personal information other than living in Bury St Edmund’s, no posts and so on. Basically no activity on Facebook by this person since 2014, as if it had been abandoned and forgotten about by someone who, through his occupation, needed to keep a low profile social media status.
Betts’ LinkedIn profile has him living in Spixworth near Norwich. It is not beyond the possibility that this is the same person and that he has moved closer to Norwich since 2014.
A list from the Office of National Statistics shows the Betts is a very uncommon surname, not being mentioned in the top 500.
Although he refereed lower division matches a couple of years earlier he only became a premier league referee during the 2012/13 season.
So, we have a referee living in Norfolk, becoming a Premier League referee in 2012/13, and an abandoned Facebook account with last known activity in 2014 from a person of the same name living in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk very close to Norfolk.
So what, I hear you say. Well that Facebook account has a very interesting profile picture - a massive red a white You’ll Never Walk Alone banner.
A coincidence?

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Posted by Essy <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Essy' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 19, 2025, 9:14 pm, in reply to "Last night’s linesman?"

Aya aye Miss Marples had a sherry

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Posted by holgerczukay <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=holgerczukay' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 19, 2025, 9:00 pm, in reply to "Last night’s linesman?"

The high and continuously growing percentage of glory hunting kopites throughout the country was always bound to infiltrate the institutions, with inevitable negative effects on any decisions relating to everton fc.

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Posted by backbingham <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=backbingham' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 19, 2025, 5:46 pm, in reply to "Last night’s linesman?"

And he's on var duty for our game against Brighton!

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Posted by Roogalator <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Roogalator' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 19, 2025, 5:39 pm, in reply to "Last night’s linesman?"

Mate you should do this after every bad decision we get, but I bet you’d get the same result every time

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Posted by Lance Drysdale <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Lance+Drysdale' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 19, 2025, 4:34 pm, in reply to "Last night’s linesman?"

It's the summer, mate, and to quote John Cage, the world is teeming. Anything can happen.

Maybe get off the internet and pop outdoors. See what you can find there instead.

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Posted by Augustus <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Augustus' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 19, 2025, 5:05 pm, in reply to "Re: Last night’s linesman?"

I'm currently outdoors now. On my way to Norwich in disguise to infiltrate the Referees Assosiation.

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Posted by SnafflesBlue <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=SnafflesBlue' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 19, 2025, 4:33 pm, in reply to "Last night’s linesman?"

WSAGATHA CHRISTIE!

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Posted by Augustus <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Augustus' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 19, 2025, 7:51 pm, in reply to "Re: Last night’s linesman?"

Well done sir

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Posted by Moodyblue <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Moodyblue' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 19, 2025, 5:32 pm, in reply to "Re: Last night’s linesman?"

Haha.

UTFT
FTRS
Stop bloody raining.

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Posted by Billybookcase <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Billybookcase' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 19, 2025, 4:41 pm, in reply to "Re: Last night’s linesman?"

😬

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Posted by Chinaski <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Chinaski' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 19, 2025, 4:33 pm, in reply to "Last night’s linesman?"

Excellent work.
Doesnt surprise me in the least. I googled him expecting a RS connection

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Posted by Meff Stelling <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Meff+Stelling' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 19, 2025, 4:25 pm, in reply to "Last night’s linesman?"

Didn't he die of an ecstasy overdose in the nineties. It was all over the news at the time.

Was the catalyst for the Essex Boys shootings and subsequent series of terrible films if I remember correctly.

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Posted by jayid <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=jayid' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 19, 2025, 6:49 pm, in reply to "Re: Last night’s linesman?"

Raquels nightcub wasn’t it?

And he got behind Lawrenson there did Sharp ...

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Posted by Grazy1 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Grazy1' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 19, 2025, 5:20 pm, in reply to "Re: Last night’s linesman?"

I would have been 14 at that time and the picture in the paper of that girl always stuck with me. A few years later when I started going clubbing and was offered e’s I refused citing that picture as my reason why

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Posted by Chinaski <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Chinaski' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 19, 2025, 9:03 pm, in reply to "Re: Last night’s linesman?"

Shame that, the E's were great.
Leah Betts died because she drank about 10 gallons of water

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Posted by BlueMeanie <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=BlueMeanie' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 19, 2025, 9:10 pm, in reply to "Re: Last night’s linesman?"

Misinformation from the drug council leaflets etc.

Who remembers Peanut Pete?

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Posted by Yogi_Clementine <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Yogi_Clementine' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 19, 2025, 2:55 pm, in reply to "Last night’s linesman?"

This is tremendous stuff and probably needs to take flight onto social media and see if it can be debunked, because if there's something in it....

Formerly yogiclementine

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Posted by Tonytaxi1970 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Tonytaxi1970' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 19, 2025, 2:55 pm, in reply to "Last night’s linesman?"

*gets pitchfork from shed

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Posted by ste <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=ste' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 19, 2025, 2:52 pm, in reply to "Last night’s linesman?"

Top top bittering this.

I salute you.

CHEER UP, PLUMS

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