IslandReferee
Active Member
Aloha to all my fellow referees and happy new year. Its been a bit since I posted, but what a mess I had on my hands this evening.
Varsity boys match. I knew it was going to be a banger. As far as island soccer goes, it was Westside versus Eastside. Needless to say, it was going to be a fast and furious match. Blow the whistle to start. The game is of course very fast paced and very well played. Nothing serious going besides that, two fouls in the first 15 minutes. I know the aggressors in this match and also know the ones that play very fast and also know the players that are very nasty and disrespectful. 20th minute, there is a play in the box by a very quick forward, the defender is there and forces attacker towards the corner flag. I am working my way there since this was a long ball into the attacking third. The two players are going at it with the ball, nothing serious at this point but it has my attention. As I am drawing nearer and I am just about to blow my whistle for a foul going the other way, these two idiots decide to start boxing. I immediately quicken my pace and am there in a heartbeat trying to break this up and also trying to keep track of who is who and who did what. I break the on the field stuff up and then look towards my 4th official to only see a bench-clearing brawl on the sidelines between both teams. One parent actually decided to jump the wall and enter the field as well to just argue. At this point, I have completely lost track of all the red cards that were going to needed to be issues and obvioulsy a bench clearing brawl in a high school forced the match to be abandoned. It was crazy to say the least. I was the
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Varsity boys match. I knew it was going to be a banger. As far as island soccer goes, it was Westside versus Eastside. Needless to say, it was going to be a fast and furious match. Blow the whistle to start. The game is of course very fast paced and very well played. Nothing serious going besides that, two fouls in the first 15 minutes. I know the aggressors in this match and also know the ones that play very fast and also know the players that are very nasty and disrespectful. 20th minute, there is a play in the box by a very quick forward, the defender is there and forces attacker towards the corner flag. I am working my way there since this was a long ball into the attacking third. The two players are going at it with the ball, nothing serious at this point but it has my attention. As I am drawing nearer and I am just about to blow my whistle for a foul going the other way, these two idiots decide to start boxing. I immediately quicken my pace and am there in a heartbeat trying to break this up and also trying to keep track of who is who and who did what. I break the on the field stuff up and then look towards my 4th official to only see a bench-clearing brawl on the sidelines between both teams. One parent actually decided to jump the wall and enter the field as well to just argue. At this point, I have completely lost track of all the red cards that were going to needed to be issues and obvioulsy a bench clearing brawl in a high school forced the match to be abandoned. It was crazy to say the least. I was the
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