Harold Hackney - referee who took charge of Scarborough's FA Trophy win at Wembley dies aged 91

Boro’s extra-time winner as Malcolm Thompson (left) slides the ball past Wigan keeper Dennis Reeves. Picture: Steve Adamson

Harold Hackney refereed Boro’s 2-1 win after extra-time with goals from Malcolm Leask and Malcolm Thompson sealing the win for Boro.

An NCEL statement said: “The NCEL is saddened to hear of the passing of the president of the league’s Match Officials association, Harold Hackney, at the age of 91.

“Harold was born in Thorne near Doncaster in 1929 but moved to Barnsley when he was five years of age where he stayed for the rest of his life and was a well-known face in the local community.

“Having served in the RAF, his life as a referee began in 1949 when a match he went to did not have a match official.

“Harold volunteered and that was the start of a career that saw him promoted to the Referees list of the Football League ten years later.

“A severe Achilles tendon injury kept him out of action for a couple of years during the mid-1960s but he made his comeback at the end of the decade and he would go on to referee the FA Trophy Final and League Cup Semi-Final in 1973 as well as an Anglo-Italian Cup quarter-final the following year.”