megemilysx
New Member
Have been refereeing for about 5 months. Today I had my first real abuse, but I’m not sure whether I made the right decision. They were U8s and it was a league match.
Away team (reds) have the ball and are attacking. In the box the goalkeeper throws himself to get the ball, just gets his finger tips to it and it goes to the feet of another red. When the goalkeeper jumped to save he sort of threw himself in front of the player who had the ball, and the goalie was clutching his stomach. However the red team scored from it and it wasn’t a foul.
The home team manager marches on absolutely screaming at me that i’m useless, I can’t referee and that it was a foul and shouldn’t have been a goal. I explain the decision and he starts swearing and sqarinv up to me. Bearing in mind I’m a 15 year old girl, I was terrified. Then the home team players starting swearing at me too, and they were only 7.
For the rest of the game to home manager swore about everything I did, and the goalie bolted the ball as far as he could and kept swearing at me.
I would have stopped the game because he was injured if the reds hadn’t scored within seconds, but it would have been extremely unfair. It has been reported and found out that he has been saying how hopeless I am to other managers and that I should never referee again.
Game ended 4-2 to the reds. Wemt off in tears to my mum and then the manager continued to follow me and scream. Honestly never want to referee a game again at this point.
Do you think i made the right decision?
Away team (reds) have the ball and are attacking. In the box the goalkeeper throws himself to get the ball, just gets his finger tips to it and it goes to the feet of another red. When the goalkeeper jumped to save he sort of threw himself in front of the player who had the ball, and the goalie was clutching his stomach. However the red team scored from it and it wasn’t a foul.
The home team manager marches on absolutely screaming at me that i’m useless, I can’t referee and that it was a foul and shouldn’t have been a goal. I explain the decision and he starts swearing and sqarinv up to me. Bearing in mind I’m a 15 year old girl, I was terrified. Then the home team players starting swearing at me too, and they were only 7.
For the rest of the game to home manager swore about everything I did, and the goalie bolted the ball as far as he could and kept swearing at me.
I would have stopped the game because he was injured if the reds hadn’t scored within seconds, but it would have been extremely unfair. It has been reported and found out that he has been saying how hopeless I am to other managers and that I should never referee again.
Game ended 4-2 to the reds. Wemt off in tears to my mum and then the manager continued to follow me and scream. Honestly never want to referee a game again at this point.
Do you think i made the right decision?