zarathustra
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Had a game this afternoon, which was a fairly heated affair.
it started fairly even until about 10-15 minutes into the first half where two players went in for a loose ball.
As soon as I saw it I went straight to caution for the away player, which is what I gave. Though in hindsight and judging by the injury (nasty gash but the player stayed on) I think that had I been in a better position I would have gone red. Not much I can do about it now, but try and work on my positioning a bit more and to take more time to consider all options and variables before making a decision.
That set the tone for the rest of the match, and it pretty much ended up a stop start affair, and every time I tried to loosen the reigns a bit I had to clamp down again.
other than a couple of other cautions which I will come onto in a bit it just turned into a nasty niggly game, both teams were at it, there was some sort of of pushing or pulling in every challenge, lots of little trips etc after the ball had gone.
In the second half I had a caution for a player who just kicked his opponent in the knee, while challenging for the ball (he was nowhere near it)
The player who was cautioned in the first half got his second for a challenge on the home keeper at a corner which I judged to be reckless.
And to cap it off I had one of the away team in the bin for screaming at me after I awarded a penalty in the 78th minute.
I think that I was probably too lenient when it came to cautions early on, and that if I had cracked down a bit more in the first half on things like kicking the ball away and perhaps some persistent infringement etc then things might have calmed down a bit in the second.
But onwards to upwards to the next one.
it started fairly even until about 10-15 minutes into the first half where two players went in for a loose ball.
As soon as I saw it I went straight to caution for the away player, which is what I gave. Though in hindsight and judging by the injury (nasty gash but the player stayed on) I think that had I been in a better position I would have gone red. Not much I can do about it now, but try and work on my positioning a bit more and to take more time to consider all options and variables before making a decision.
That set the tone for the rest of the match, and it pretty much ended up a stop start affair, and every time I tried to loosen the reigns a bit I had to clamp down again.
other than a couple of other cautions which I will come onto in a bit it just turned into a nasty niggly game, both teams were at it, there was some sort of of pushing or pulling in every challenge, lots of little trips etc after the ball had gone.
In the second half I had a caution for a player who just kicked his opponent in the knee, while challenging for the ball (he was nowhere near it)
The player who was cautioned in the first half got his second for a challenge on the home keeper at a corner which I judged to be reckless.
And to cap it off I had one of the away team in the bin for screaming at me after I awarded a penalty in the 78th minute.
I think that I was probably too lenient when it came to cautions early on, and that if I had cracked down a bit more in the first half on things like kicking the ball away and perhaps some persistent infringement etc then things might have calmed down a bit in the second.
But onwards to upwards to the next one.