puhl, the hungarian ref of our cl final vs dortmund and the italy - brazil wc final, 4x iffhs world's best ref just died at the age of 65. my father's neighbour was a personal friend of him, so i happened to meet him briefly and read some of his hand wrote applications for hungarian federation presidency. i tried to be a nice guy and think of a pleasant memory with him, and remembered a local league game where he forgot to bring his cards, so he had to use his prestige and authority to calm down the players right at the beginning of the match and make them not commit serious fouls at all. he didn't get busted, zero cards on that day.
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