For the third game in a row I've been told I "don't know the rules". This time it was a player wanting to take a throw-in 25 yards nearer his own goal. I did him a favour and gave a double tap on the whistle before instructing him to move to the correct position. At that point he gave me the wisdom of his experience and then shook his head in that sarcastic/condescending manner that middle aged parents do to their children shortly before they tell them that "they are disappointed in them."
When I told him to stop shaking his head and that if he did it again I would caution him, he did it again, this time looking me straight in the eye. When I cautioned him, he told me he had been playing for more than 30 years and had never been cautioned. The club secretary after the game told me I was a disgrace for cautioning his player for his dissent by action (it was an open age game and this was his son by the way).
He didn't compliment me on either of the penalties I awarded his team (one missed; one saved) nor on the dismissal of an opponent using OFFINABUS towards one of his players, but they must have slipped his mind, eh?
When I told him to stop shaking his head and that if he did it again I would caution him, he did it again, this time looking me straight in the eye. When I cautioned him, he told me he had been playing for more than 30 years and had never been cautioned. The club secretary after the game told me I was a disgrace for cautioning his player for his dissent by action (it was an open age game and this was his son by the way).
He didn't compliment me on either of the penalties I awarded his team (one missed; one saved) nor on the dismissal of an opponent using OFFINABUS towards one of his players, but they must have slipped his mind, eh?