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An FA Cup qualifying match will be replayed because of a refereeing mistake made in Mulbarton Wanderers’ 2-1 win over Woodford last weekend, both lower-division clubs announced Friday.
The original result has been voided and the teams are set to square off again Tuesday.
Woodford had filed a protest with the English Football Association based on the referee’s ruling following a penalty in the first half.
Woodford scored from the spot but the referee disallowed it because of encroachment by its own players.
The match official then awarded an indirect free kick for Mulbarton. But Woodford argued to an FA panel that was a mistake.
“The sub-committee concluded that a technical error had been made by the referee, determining that the correct outcome under Law 14 should have been either the awarding of the goal or the ordering of a penalty retake,” Woodford said in a statement.
As a result, it said, the FA determined that “the original fixture was not completed in accordance with the 2026-27 FA Cup Rules,” and must be “replayed in its entirety.”
Mulbarton said in its statement Friday the FA had originally determined the protest was not allowed, but that Woodford further appealed and prevailed with a rules sub-committee.
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Opens a huge can of worms going forward. Officials making mistakes leading to games being replayed as long as the losing team protests about the mistakes.
Kind Regards.
The original result has been voided and the teams are set to square off again Tuesday.
Woodford had filed a protest with the English Football Association based on the referee’s ruling following a penalty in the first half.
Woodford scored from the spot but the referee disallowed it because of encroachment by its own players.
The match official then awarded an indirect free kick for Mulbarton. But Woodford argued to an FA panel that was a mistake.
“The sub-committee concluded that a technical error had been made by the referee, determining that the correct outcome under Law 14 should have been either the awarding of the goal or the ordering of a penalty retake,” Woodford said in a statement.
As a result, it said, the FA determined that “the original fixture was not completed in accordance with the 2026-27 FA Cup Rules,” and must be “replayed in its entirety.”
Mulbarton said in its statement Friday the FA had originally determined the protest was not allowed, but that Woodford further appealed and prevailed with a rules sub-committee.
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Opens a huge can of worms going forward. Officials making mistakes leading to games being replayed as long as the losing team protests about the mistakes.
Kind Regards.
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Was a referee error in Newcastle game
Didn't affect outcome as happened, so no replay.
Pretty much same mistake.
Rafas assistant was showing 4th official the laws of the game on his ipad, lol... They just ignored it.
Ref and officials got stood down.
Pretty poor for ref to get laws wrong, even worse to wilfully ignore laws when pointed out contemporaneously.
No idea if laws were pointed out in fa cup game.
https://www.espn.co.uk/football/story/_/id/37518220/referee-admits-bizarre-penalty-blunder-newcastle-burton-albion-match
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Didn't affect outcome as happened, so no replay.
Pretty much same mistake.
Rafas assistant was showing 4th official the laws of the game on his ipad, lol... They just ignored it.
Ref and officials got stood down.
Pretty poor for ref to get laws wrong, even worse to wilfully ignore laws when pointed out contemporaneously.
No idea if laws were pointed out in fa cup game.
https://www.espn.co.uk/football/story/_/id/37518220/referee-admits-bizarre-penalty-blunder-newcastle-burton-albion-match
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