Tips to stay focused

[Dutch Referee Blog]

Hi all,
I've written a blog story about tips to stay focused during the game. Concrete things you can do while refereeing. Check the tips them here.

I am working on a blog post now with tips from referees. What are your tips to keep concentrated? Would love to read them and use them on my blog.

 

[Mikysaints]

Good tips! Number 3 especially - I've found that if I miss a certain aspect of my warm up (a stretch or an exercise) or pre match procedure I don't feel as though I'm fully prepared for the game. I'd say another important one is forgetting decisions as soon as you've made them. Most problems arise when I've either said to myself 'good decision' or 'you've been having a good game' and then been presented with a major decision or incident, or said 'this game is passing me by' and then feeling out of my depth for the rest of the game which obviously affects performance.