If I'm holding a flag there, I'm using that as an excuse for any wrong offside calls, no question about it!It's just the quality and angle of the photo which has made this look worse than what it is. Asking the white team to change kit is just like asking a team in green (grass green) kit to change their kit on kit. It doesn't make good TV viewing but from the ground it won't be as bad.
Fair enough. I don't make any wrong offside calls so I won't need an excuse.If I'm holding a flag there, I'm using that as an excuse for any wrong offside calls, no question about it!
Weirdly, my only major kit clash issue was also in one of the few women's games I've done and also resulted in both (male) managers turning into stroppy toddlers. In this case, apparently when the home team had played their opponents away earlier in the season, the opponent had failed to inform them of the kit clash and made them drive home to pick up their spare kit, resulting in a "delaying kick off" fine - so there was not a chance the home team was putting on a second kit. And the away team claimed they hadn't been told about a clash...despite the above piece of history!Mentioned this before but we're all bored.........
Women's National League (Level 3) midweek game. FA had sent the referee from a good way away, I was an AR. As the match approached home team (mainly white shirt, blue trim) had become aware that the away team were also wearing white, despite receiving email from the home club, as per, in good time advising of home team's colours. When challenged, the away team, who had not put on match tops yet, claimed that their strip was in fact red and white. Referee obviously asked to see said strip and we then saw that the red consisted of two of the thinnest stripes you will ever see.
Then came a surreal 15 minutes or so where both sets of team officials entered full on stroppy 9 year old mode. Referee was prepared to give it a go, I wasn't so sure, but then changed his mind when one of the 9 year olds, sorry, team officials, said he didn't want any excuses from us about similar strips for any bad decisions! Referee, understandably, lost patience then, and told the teams to sort it out, otherwise he would abandon and report to comp. Away team refused to wear the home team's spare kit (yellow), home team refused to wear it as well - told you they were in 9 year old mode.
We came in from our warm up to find said spare kit, on the floor of our changing room! Referee remained remarkably calm and went to inform both teams that if they weren't both ready to kick off at the appointed time he would abandon. We came out 5 minutes before ko to find the home team in home kit, lined up and the away team.......nowhere to be seen. Back to the changing rooms marched the referee to ask the away side what was going on. They had the temerity to say they didn't know where the spare kit was - having been informed it was in our changing room, they reluctantly and very slowly got changed and we eventually kicked off 20 minutes late. It was also the most 'frosty' coin toss I have ever witnessed.
One of this referee's rare women's games apparently, for some reason he said he wasn't keen on doing too many more!
Weirdly, my only major kit clash issue was also in one of the few women's games I've done and also resulted in both (male) managers turning into stroppy toddlers. In this case, apparently when the home team had played their opponents away earlier in the season, the opponent had failed to inform them of the kit clash and made them drive home to pick up their spare kit, resulting in a "delaying kick off" fine - so there was not a chance the home team was putting on a second kit. And the away team claimed they hadn't been told about a clash...despite the above piece of history!
Eventual solution in this case was for the away team to play in their grey unnumbered warm-up tops. But that still left both teams wearing blue socks, so with about 15 minutes to kick off, the away team captain was dispatched to a nearby sports direct to buy white socks. Of course, ingeniously, she only picked up 10 pairs for the 10 outfield starters - meaning that every sub was conducted with a lengthy pause while the players swapped socks!
Talking of kit clashes, there was one for colourblind viewers of the Liverpool Man Utd game https://www.skysports.com/football/...ans-angry-as-they-struggle-to-tell-kits-apart
United were alerted about a clash but only changed their socks to white instead of going to their white 3rd kit - what's the point in having one if it's not used.
Red and green strips should really be treated as a colour clash by FAs, clubs, and referees, as statistically at least one participant in each game (and thousands/millions in the stands/at home) will have problems with 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women being colourblind.
I was insistent on them finding a solution of some sort - I've done a game with a sock clash before and you'd be surprised how annoyed teams start to get when you end up basically guessing who fouled who a good proportion of the time!was the sock purchase something you suggested / asked for or did the teams want it? personally i'm not sure i'd be too arsed about a sock clash.
only clashes i've had are between my and teams wearing mostly black or navy blue kits, thankfully few and far between these days.
I was insistent on them finding a solution of some sort - I've done a game with a sock clash before and you'd be surprised how annoyed teams start to get when you end up basically guessing who fouled who a good proportion of the time!
I actually probably wouldn't have insisted on them changing socks given we were limited to 3 subs, but I had neutral AR's and he insisted before I got involved, so I wasn't going to undermine him after all the pre-match arguments.