That was a criminal refereeing performance. How did he get away with it?

Made all the more criminal that he is now in charge of the refs. Explains a lot about standards.

At the time I believed he was settling some old score, and it was the most scandalous action.



Some years later I asked him why he did it, and whether he had any regrets. He said that it was the wrong decision, but he just saw lots of blood on the player he thought Bradley had fouled, and that it was serious foul play. I find it difficult to be convinced by that, especially the speed at which he brandished the red, but suppose his explanation might as well be taken at face value.



I also asked him if he'd spoken to Bradley since about it and apologised, but the answer was basically no. He did sound like he did regret what he'd done, FWIW.

You can't send someone off becuase you think something mgiht have happened. That's even more outrageous.

So he didn't see anything? Appalling.

Bradley had built up a reputation as a niggly sort or player and obviously Cummings leapt to the wrong conclusion and brandished the red card too quickly. In short he acted like a biased fan rather than a referee.

Bradley was also severely censured and reprimanded by the RFL for remarks made about Cummings in his newspaper column. As he had retired and was thus RFL-impervious, it did seem an odd thing for the RFL to do, especially in the circumstances of Bradley having been found not guilty, despite having had his last game utterly ruined by a rash decision, but then it is the RFL.



Does anyone have a link to Bradley's article?

Wasn't he pursuing a coaching career in the UK at the time though? But it does seem like an RFL ploy. Censure the innocent party and promote the guilty one.

Dunno, don't think so. Pretty sure he was no longer involved in the game. Still utterly pointless, tho.

What he said.

He was at Rochdale but because he didn't have the full coaching badges the RFL made him leave his post.

Sorry Glenn we've been hearing this too much for the last 12 months. If you want increased support actions speak louder than words.

I used to hate Bradley with a passion. He was one of those pantomime bad guys that you don't tend to see much of in SL these days (apart from Ryan Bailey, and Newton in his Wigan career

). There was a game during the Leeds slump year of 1996 in which Mercer clotheslined him WWF style when Leeds were getting a thrashing, and it was clear that he didn't care about being sent-off, he was just happy to put one on Bradley.



The game may be faster and the players more 'professional' (outside Bradford anyway

) but IMO the game is nowhere near as entertaining as a spectacle. I thought we were seeing a return in the recent Saints Leeds game but the players wussed out for the re-match in the CC. Hopefully with Bradford winning against Leeds over Easter the old derby will be reignited because it has been pretty limp since MM, with the biff stopping in about 2003.