Excellent news. He loves a quick game as well, which should be entertaining.

thank god its not the sir from last week

And If I recall correctly, he was the one who marched them back 20 metres after Billy's backchat? So just keep winding Billy up and let the penalties come....

Over to you Joe!

Makes it less likely he’ll do the final I imagine, which is a shame - if it’s Carley again, or god forbid Tempest or Maxwell-Keys, that wouldn’t feel right

I believe Carley is doing the other semi-final, so if Pearce can't do the final then neither can Carley. Most likely scenario is that Barnes does the final.

Dunno how it works but Barnes did the European final - wonder if they would therefore give the Prem final to someone else?

(Yes I know they’re not organised by the same authorities - but generally they seem to balance out the big opps among the best refs).

Pearce did the other European final, I think.

He did, and if I recall was in charge for the last time the sides met at the StoneX back in Feb.