santa sangria
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Both assistants replaced late before today's game. AR1 just not up to it. Behind the play. Dithering with subs. Not inspiring confidence. AR2 young trained and sharp... but... Not the most technical game on a hard uneven grass pitch. Not so much happened until...
End of first half, whites are the better team but are 2 down, white through ball into the box, left by the first player, AR2 offside flag up, I whistle, 2nd player slots home. Of course, he wasn't offside. Terrible flag. No wait and see. I made it worse by quickly whistling even though I could see the player leave the ball and I knew there should not have been a whistle. There was a surreal moment where AR2 had his flag up and then he made the "put your flag down" gesture with the other hand as I whistled. Bizarre! Basically my biggest disaster of the season and my first wrongly disallowed goal in 5 years of serious reffing. I've allowed a few wrongly but not disallowed AFAIK!
Start of second half, carbon copy. Same ball in the channel into the box, first player leaves it, AR2 flag up, I whistle, again fully conscious, second player slots home, for the blues! The second worst moment of my time as a ref and another wrongly disallowed goal. Again, terrible flag, and again, I saw the action, and whistled. Terrible, terrible.
It stayed 2-0. I'm gutted. We discussed it. AR2 gutted too. Yes, bad flags. But my fault for blowing.
End of first half, whites are the better team but are 2 down, white through ball into the box, left by the first player, AR2 offside flag up, I whistle, 2nd player slots home. Of course, he wasn't offside. Terrible flag. No wait and see. I made it worse by quickly whistling even though I could see the player leave the ball and I knew there should not have been a whistle. There was a surreal moment where AR2 had his flag up and then he made the "put your flag down" gesture with the other hand as I whistled. Bizarre! Basically my biggest disaster of the season and my first wrongly disallowed goal in 5 years of serious reffing. I've allowed a few wrongly but not disallowed AFAIK!
Start of second half, carbon copy. Same ball in the channel into the box, first player leaves it, AR2 flag up, I whistle, again fully conscious, second player slots home, for the blues! The second worst moment of my time as a ref and another wrongly disallowed goal. Again, terrible flag, and again, I saw the action, and whistled. Terrible, terrible.
It stayed 2-0. I'm gutted. We discussed it. AR2 gutted too. Yes, bad flags. But my fault for blowing.