Hi all,
Reffed a pre-season friendly this morning, both teams absolutely fine for the first 20 minutes or so, no issues at all.
The away team go 1-0 down and then start to step up the energy, lots of niggly fouls in the next 5 minutes - from there they start appealing for everything, any contact and touch, just fairly constant moaning - they got fouls given, as I saw them, but they were appealing and moaning for decisions they knew weren't right.
The issue is that it's not just one or two players it's 7 or 8, I bring the captain in, but he's probably the main offender.
It really got to the point where the other team were actively telling them to be quiet and I had stern words with players but to no avail.
Any advice for how to deal with this moving forward?
Thanks in advance.
D
Reffed a pre-season friendly this morning, both teams absolutely fine for the first 20 minutes or so, no issues at all.
The away team go 1-0 down and then start to step up the energy, lots of niggly fouls in the next 5 minutes - from there they start appealing for everything, any contact and touch, just fairly constant moaning - they got fouls given, as I saw them, but they were appealing and moaning for decisions they knew weren't right.
The issue is that it's not just one or two players it's 7 or 8, I bring the captain in, but he's probably the main offender.
It really got to the point where the other team were actively telling them to be quiet and I had stern words with players but to no avail.
Any advice for how to deal with this moving forward?
Thanks in advance.
D