I SUPPOSE I cannot kick off my first column without mentioning what happened on Tuesday night. It was the most bizarre ending to a football match.

I think the lad Jordan Williams was surprised the game had been allowed to carry on, but why did he punch it?

From our perspective it was great, we nicked a point. From a Swindon’s perspective the will be bitterly disappointed and they will be looking to the officials to tell everybody exactly what happened.

Which moves me nicely on to my point. I will never criticise referees because they do a tough job.

I referee eight v eights every day and that is bad enough. These referees, they know what they are doing, the majority of them are experienced, but they make split-second decisions and it is not easy.

We are not in a position to change their interpretations and we shouldn’t be. They officiate the game, they make the decisions and that’s the bottom line and we have to respect that. But why they cannot come out and explain some of their decisions?

Club staff are not allowed to go and talk to the referee and his officials for 30 minutes after the game now so there’s a cooling off period.

In that time, if there’s been a controversial decision, I don’t see why they can’t put out a statement.

They do not even have to come out and talk to the press, because they will pretty much know what is going to be asked of them.

They have the assessor there, I am sure they could draw up two or three of the key points and just say this is what happened and how we saw it. Then that is it, then they won’t be hounded with questions and fend off things.

It would help end the confusion for the fans as well, because everyone has a different perspective, even if they were at the game.

I was in a restaurant earlier and I heard two blokes who hadn’t been to Tuesday’s game talking about it and they were just surmising from the reports. I almost wanted to walk over to them and put them right, because I was there in the heat of the moment.

In the end I just let them surmise, because I suppose that is one of the wonderful things about football really, everybody has an opinion.