Arthur Edward Ellis

Arthur Edward Ellis ( born July 8, 1914 in Halifax, West Yorkshire, † 23 May 1999) was an English football referee. At the international level, he led in the 1950s live at three World Championships, the World Cup finals in 1950, he was in the " final " linesman. At the European Championships in 1960, the first European Championship finals, he was as final as referee at the Olympic Games in 1952.

Career

Ellis was from 1936 worked as a referee in the English First Division. From the late 1940s also international appearances can be detected, for example in projects carried out as World Cup qualifiers British Home Championship. In 1950 sent him to the Football Association World Cup finals in 1950, when also in a 7-1 success of the host Brazilians over the reigning Olympic champion Sweden, he led a game of Final group stage next to a game in the group stage. In the final -final match between Uruguay and Brazil, which amounted to a final table due to the constellation, he supported the referee George Reader as a linesman.

Even within the country's borders Ellis was entrusted with important games, so he was responsible in 1952 in the final of the FA Cup between Newcastle United and Arsenal the lead of the game. He was then in five games of the Olympic Games in Helsinki Impartial, while he conducted the final match between Hungary and Yugoslavia. Two years later he was again one of the referees in the World Cup, the whistled by him quarterfinal match between Brazil and Hungary in the World Cup in 1954 was due to the brutal tactics - Ellis spoke three sendings off - as the Battle of Berne in history.

After the introduction of the European Cup in 1955 Ellis was also strong there in use and managed in the premiere season six games, including four games on the one hand Hibernian Edinburgh and on the other hand, the final between Real Madrid and Stade Reims in Paris Parc des Princes. Later, he was still used several times even in semi-finals.

At the World Cup 1958 Ellis celebrated his third finals appearance, but managed only two group games. Two years later he directed again a playoff in the Parc de Princes, this time at the European Championship finals in 1960. In the extension of the Soviet Union relied through against Yugoslavia.

1961 Ellis ended his career, but appeared in the 1970s as a referee in the game show It's a Knockout in appearance.