Think safe. He's got the ball clean. How close was he to making contact with the other player? If the attacker has had to avoid contact you can sell a red. If not you can sell a yellow if the game needs to be calmed down, or you can "get away" with a good lecture if the game has been really...
Quiet afternoon at work got me thinking. What is it that gets your goat about football. Not necessarily on the field but the build up and after the game.
I'll start things off. Crap showers. Running around for 90 minutes then having to drive home without a decent shower.
If you think you'll struggle to get 20 middles you need to have a long conversation with the appointing officer. If that doesn't work look at a neighbouring league. Do you do Sat and Sun games. Last shout to get adult middles contact your county female football league. Usually Sun PM and if you...
I only forgot to restart my watch once. Fortunately I could see a church clock in the distance and knew what time I'd kicked off.
I'd suggest going to watch a ref do a youth game and see how they do things. It won't all be good but it'll give you an idea of what works and what to avoid.
I haven't said don't use coloured whistles. I've suggested staying away from Red/Yellow.
Dan good idea about raising the game on your coloured whistle. I know quite a few AR's around here that would never know as they live in their own little world and eye to eye is a foreign concept.
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