SM
The avuncular one
Red vs white. Niggly game and after about 90 minutes the red striker and white defender let their verbals turn into head to head (actual head to head) screaming at each other.
I am about 10 yards from them with a side in view of their antics and just start blowing the whistle. Very loudly. Players near me move away in fear of their ears. Shout from the sideline: "Do something ref! Don't just stand there!"
Keep blowing the whistle and watching what is going on. Call both players over in turn, one lad on an earlier caution so he gets his second and a red. The other gets a caution both for AA. Nobody happy that the players got cautioned despite somehow wanting and apparently urging me to wade in like a boxing ref seconds earlier.
You just can't win sometimes.
I am about 10 yards from them with a side in view of their antics and just start blowing the whistle. Very loudly. Players near me move away in fear of their ears. Shout from the sideline: "Do something ref! Don't just stand there!"
Keep blowing the whistle and watching what is going on. Call both players over in turn, one lad on an earlier caution so he gets his second and a red. The other gets a caution both for AA. Nobody happy that the players got cautioned despite somehow wanting and apparently urging me to wade in like a boxing ref seconds earlier.
You just can't win sometimes.