ladbroke8745
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Well, I am not going to lie. I spent more time in the centre circle than I did elsewhere (my heat map below will show that more or less).
But in my defence, without assistants being able to back me up whilst behind play, this was virtually the best place to ref this game due to both teams lack of football technique and skill.
Both teams literally thought the game should be played long ball. Wasn't the biggest of pitches, but whenever they got the chance, it literally was hoof ball. I was caught out the first 10 minutes where I tried to keep up with the long balls but in the end I felt my best position was in and around the centre circle.
It did finish 6-1 and it shows as it was a a bit one sided, meaning I didn't have to go that far anyway. But the losing side was just constantly long ball after long ball clearing their lines, hoping their 1 fast striker can latch on to things (and a lot of the time he did, meaning I had to sprint to try and catch up with them just for them to lose the ball and it get punted back up again. 80 minute match. I was, admittedly, tiring after about an hour. I am a big lad, relatively fit however, but not having many games for 15 months (had 3 previous games in 2021, and since covid started I've done 9 with the the last in 2020 being in October) had finally taken its toll today.
Why do losing teams complain about the refs in centre circles all the time when they don't even try themselves?
But in my defence, without assistants being able to back me up whilst behind play, this was virtually the best place to ref this game due to both teams lack of football technique and skill.
Both teams literally thought the game should be played long ball. Wasn't the biggest of pitches, but whenever they got the chance, it literally was hoof ball. I was caught out the first 10 minutes where I tried to keep up with the long balls but in the end I felt my best position was in and around the centre circle.
It did finish 6-1 and it shows as it was a a bit one sided, meaning I didn't have to go that far anyway. But the losing side was just constantly long ball after long ball clearing their lines, hoping their 1 fast striker can latch on to things (and a lot of the time he did, meaning I had to sprint to try and catch up with them just for them to lose the ball and it get punted back up again. 80 minute match. I was, admittedly, tiring after about an hour. I am a big lad, relatively fit however, but not having many games for 15 months (had 3 previous games in 2021, and since covid started I've done 9 with the the last in 2020 being in October) had finally taken its toll today.
Why do losing teams complain about the refs in centre circles all the time when they don't even try themselves?