zarathustra
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Well this afternoon I had my first game in the middle in two months.
Got to the venue about an hour before kick off and following a pitch inspection I decided it wasn't playable.
The pitch itself was borderline at best but I wasn't convinced that another 90 minutes of football would improve matters, and if I start a match i subsequently have to abandon then I'm not sure I should have started it in the first place.
As it was the home team arranged a last minute pitch at a school 10 minutes, and with travel and getting nets sorted etc we kicked off about 20 minutes late.
The match was between 2nd and 3rd and finished 1 nil to the away team. and all in all I didn't have a great deal to do. I think I only blew my whistle about 15 times and taking away some offsides and start and end of halves, and three injuries that only left 6 fouls all of which were against the home team.
I think I missed a penalty for the home side, but at the time I felt it was a hard but fair challenge. also might have given a goal kick instead of a corner.
Away team felt the home teams car give a couple of suspicious offsides, but I was close enough for each that the player in question looked offside, and he was accurate and fair with other decisions such as giving 50/50 decisions against his team. but nothing got out of hand.
All in all I covered about 3.5 miles so it wasn't particularly taxing, but my positioning and anticipation of play was very good, although perhaps I could have pushed further into the corners and penalty areas at times.
So to sum up, I'm happy, and while I'll do a few more women's matches before going back to mens football I'm a happy teddy.
Got to the venue about an hour before kick off and following a pitch inspection I decided it wasn't playable.
The pitch itself was borderline at best but I wasn't convinced that another 90 minutes of football would improve matters, and if I start a match i subsequently have to abandon then I'm not sure I should have started it in the first place.
As it was the home team arranged a last minute pitch at a school 10 minutes, and with travel and getting nets sorted etc we kicked off about 20 minutes late.
The match was between 2nd and 3rd and finished 1 nil to the away team. and all in all I didn't have a great deal to do. I think I only blew my whistle about 15 times and taking away some offsides and start and end of halves, and three injuries that only left 6 fouls all of which were against the home team.
I think I missed a penalty for the home side, but at the time I felt it was a hard but fair challenge. also might have given a goal kick instead of a corner.
Away team felt the home teams car give a couple of suspicious offsides, but I was close enough for each that the player in question looked offside, and he was accurate and fair with other decisions such as giving 50/50 decisions against his team. but nothing got out of hand.
All in all I covered about 3.5 miles so it wasn't particularly taxing, but my positioning and anticipation of play was very good, although perhaps I could have pushed further into the corners and penalty areas at times.
So to sum up, I'm happy, and while I'll do a few more women's matches before going back to mens football I'm a happy teddy.