New ref here, I've been reffing for my lads under 11s team but now currently doing my 5 games to get my level 7.
Had a double header yesterday. First one was under 11's, only a friendly so shouldn't have been too taxing but unfortunately the away teams parents had other ideas!
I ask the away team parents for a volunteer to be a CAR and a bloke takes the flag. I explain it's just ins and outs, nothing more than that and thank him for helping. Anyway, first half goes on and can hear him calling for fouls. I ignore him and stick to what I see, never oversteps the mark and just get on with it.
Second half, I call an offside against his team and this is when he gets in bother. He immediately steps on to the pitch and gets very animated when telling me it was on. He points to how the kids are stood, bearing in mind this is 10 or so seconds after the offence! I gesture to the away coach that he might want to have a word and he gives me a nod. Just about a minute later, play moves down towards him again and I hear him say to one of his players (later found to be his son) "go on, take his legs out". Immediately blew up and told him to put the flag down and move back behind the barrier. He then starts effing and blinding at me, home coaches and home parents. At that point he was asked to leave and he ended up watching the rest of the game from a distance. Luckily we've only 5 minutes left to play to we see it out and I just post an ER on WGS.
Second game was OA women's game. Went well in general. Only thing I found I struggled with was offsides and started second guessing myself. I tend to take the view of unless it's obvious, then I let play go on, but after a few tight calls I let go, I switched second half to calling it unless I can see someone is definitely playing them on. This then annoyed the away side that were doing the majority of the attacking (they were 4-0 up at half time).
Only other things of note was a throw in that all of the away side disagreed with, but my view was that it had hit the away players shin, given the direction of the ball and I stuck with it. The other one I possibly missed was a challenge between two players, ball bounced so it was a chest/head height 50/50. Away player goes in with her arm across her chest, almost as if to protect herself but she ended up catching the home player on the chin. Didn't look to me like she led with it so didn't give anything other than a drop ball when I stopped play for the injury. Home coaches obviously gave some sarcastic comments and said I should have blown.
Those were my second and third games towards my 5. I don't suppose anyone has any advice based on the above? Or do I just have to accept that grief is part of the job and I'm not going to get everything right!
Had a double header yesterday. First one was under 11's, only a friendly so shouldn't have been too taxing but unfortunately the away teams parents had other ideas!
I ask the away team parents for a volunteer to be a CAR and a bloke takes the flag. I explain it's just ins and outs, nothing more than that and thank him for helping. Anyway, first half goes on and can hear him calling for fouls. I ignore him and stick to what I see, never oversteps the mark and just get on with it.
Second half, I call an offside against his team and this is when he gets in bother. He immediately steps on to the pitch and gets very animated when telling me it was on. He points to how the kids are stood, bearing in mind this is 10 or so seconds after the offence! I gesture to the away coach that he might want to have a word and he gives me a nod. Just about a minute later, play moves down towards him again and I hear him say to one of his players (later found to be his son) "go on, take his legs out". Immediately blew up and told him to put the flag down and move back behind the barrier. He then starts effing and blinding at me, home coaches and home parents. At that point he was asked to leave and he ended up watching the rest of the game from a distance. Luckily we've only 5 minutes left to play to we see it out and I just post an ER on WGS.
Second game was OA women's game. Went well in general. Only thing I found I struggled with was offsides and started second guessing myself. I tend to take the view of unless it's obvious, then I let play go on, but after a few tight calls I let go, I switched second half to calling it unless I can see someone is definitely playing them on. This then annoyed the away side that were doing the majority of the attacking (they were 4-0 up at half time).
Only other things of note was a throw in that all of the away side disagreed with, but my view was that it had hit the away players shin, given the direction of the ball and I stuck with it. The other one I possibly missed was a challenge between two players, ball bounced so it was a chest/head height 50/50. Away player goes in with her arm across her chest, almost as if to protect herself but she ended up catching the home player on the chin. Didn't look to me like she led with it so didn't give anything other than a drop ball when I stopped play for the injury. Home coaches obviously gave some sarcastic comments and said I should have blown.
Those were my second and third games towards my 5. I don't suppose anyone has any advice based on the above? Or do I just have to accept that grief is part of the job and I'm not going to get everything right!
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