Hello all,
Just a quick one from yesterday. I done a Supply league line and was senior due to the other linesman being 17 and having only done a couple of lines before. I’ve had about 15 games or so under my belt so always pretty confident.
Yesterday was one of the worst I’d had in terms of verbal abuse, from both the bench and also the players. A few had been warned on a couple of occasions. It was literally one of those games where there could have been 10+ reds for foul and abusive language.
Had a good game, no mistakes, clear offsides and a couple of free kicks given down in my 3rd. Observer was a 2A referee and said I was brilliant and would no doubt be a solid 73 performance. One thing I want to know is how do you cope with blanking out the abuse from the side? Does it come in time with experience?
I’ve always said in my own head that I only really care about what the observer has to say, but the level of abuse yesterday was starting to get under my skin abit and I could feel the self doubt starting to creep in slightly. One of the funniest moments was ball went out of play, I buzz and flag up for a throw. Manager goes wild and shouts ‘nobody even appealed for that lino!’, it took a good few minutes to actually explain that even though there was no appeals, the ball was still out and we can’t in fact just play on
Just a quick one from yesterday. I done a Supply league line and was senior due to the other linesman being 17 and having only done a couple of lines before. I’ve had about 15 games or so under my belt so always pretty confident.
Yesterday was one of the worst I’d had in terms of verbal abuse, from both the bench and also the players. A few had been warned on a couple of occasions. It was literally one of those games where there could have been 10+ reds for foul and abusive language.
Had a good game, no mistakes, clear offsides and a couple of free kicks given down in my 3rd. Observer was a 2A referee and said I was brilliant and would no doubt be a solid 73 performance. One thing I want to know is how do you cope with blanking out the abuse from the side? Does it come in time with experience?
I’ve always said in my own head that I only really care about what the observer has to say, but the level of abuse yesterday was starting to get under my skin abit and I could feel the self doubt starting to creep in slightly. One of the funniest moments was ball went out of play, I buzz and flag up for a throw. Manager goes wild and shouts ‘nobody even appealed for that lino!’, it took a good few minutes to actually explain that even though there was no appeals, the ball was still out and we can’t in fact just play on