Reg Leafe
Reginald James " Reg" Leafe (* December 15, 1914, † 2001) was a British football referee. As a representative of the English Football Association he gained through regional prominence through the line of final games at the World Championships in 1950 and 1958 as well as European matches in the 1950s and 1960s.
Career
As a teenager, even football players took Leafe after his injury-related careers end, the Office of the referee. After gaining first experience in friendly matches in the late 1940s, he headed for the World Cup finals in Brazil in 1950 two games in the final round, he was entrusted with the 6-1 victory over the host Brazilians Spain. Eight years later, his home federation sent him a second time for the World Cup finals, this time to Sweden. He whistled two games - including the quarterfinal match between the team of the Soviet Union the host and Sweden. Ironically, each vice world champion in both tournaments the host until today (as of 2012), these are also the only two World Cup finals with this fact. In 1960, he was also a referee at the Summer Olympics.
1955 Leafe had underpinned its prominent position among English referees and was entrusted with the final of the English football cup competition of men between Newcastle United and Manchester City, which won the Magpies with a 3-1 success.
Even with his performances in the European Cup Leafe wrote sustainably in the football books. In the European Cup of Champions 1960/61, he took over the return match between defending champion and to date the sole competition winners Real Madrid and the Catalan rivals FC Barcelona in the first leg had ended in a 2-2 draw. In the return match, he denied a total of four goals recognition - three decisions were to the detriment of the Royal, who withdrew after the 1-2 defeat of the competition. In the semifinals, he led the return match between Rapid Vienna and Benfica, after a refusal for the Austrians penalty came with the score at 1-1 to excesses, as the first European Cup match, the match in the 88th minute was canceled.