Recent content by Owswald

Honestly, not really. It happened as he was leaving the FOP so I had no further problems from him (apart from that he tried to stay on the touchline to watch). His teammates were, to their credit, fairly apologetic and it really took the temperature out of the game. Paradoxically, my life was...

I had my third open age fixture (mens) last week, and being 16 I’m still trying to ease myself into the level. (Sidenote: one of my games was with two experienced ARs so I got some excellent feedback from that - the first time in almost three years of refereeing that I’ve actually had feedback...

I’m a 16-year-old ref based in the north of England, I’ve been a referee for just under three years and I recently reffed my first open age game. I think it mostly went well, only two cautions and not a close game. My biggest concern afterwards was the level of dissent I was tolerating -...