My son plays in goal for a decent u12 side and there was a minor incident towards the end of his game yesterday that saw him in trouble with the ref. (I was on the line as CAR as I'm currently nursing an injury)
As a bit of backstory, three weeks ago, at 2-1 up, the away team equalized. After picking the ball up from his net, the lad who had scored ran up towards him to grab the ball and so he turned his back with the ball in his arms, which prompted the lad to push him in the back. The ref gave the lad a caution. We restarted with a kick from the centre.
This week, in the second half, his team were winning 3-1 and the away team scored to make it 3-2 (plenty of time left in the game). As he was retrieving the ball from his net, two of the away team rushed up to him and tried to snatch the ball away from him, to which he (somewhat stupidly) tried to keep hold of it again. He later said the boys were both swearing at him to 'give us the f****** ball' and the away coach was shouting telling the ref that 'he can't do that ref!'. The ref approached my son and gave him a stern talking to. This didn't go down too well and he almost ended up getting himself in more trouble for protesting about the other boys' behaviour.
What would be the correct course of action in this kind of situation? As a volunteer ref I used to just stay near the goal and use my whistle at the first sign of any silliness, but now I am 'official' I wonder if I should be acting differently?
Is not giving the ball back to the other team immediately after a goal considered a delay of the restart?
As a bit of backstory, three weeks ago, at 2-1 up, the away team equalized. After picking the ball up from his net, the lad who had scored ran up towards him to grab the ball and so he turned his back with the ball in his arms, which prompted the lad to push him in the back. The ref gave the lad a caution. We restarted with a kick from the centre.
This week, in the second half, his team were winning 3-1 and the away team scored to make it 3-2 (plenty of time left in the game). As he was retrieving the ball from his net, two of the away team rushed up to him and tried to snatch the ball away from him, to which he (somewhat stupidly) tried to keep hold of it again. He later said the boys were both swearing at him to 'give us the f****** ball' and the away coach was shouting telling the ref that 'he can't do that ref!'. The ref approached my son and gave him a stern talking to. This didn't go down too well and he almost ended up getting himself in more trouble for protesting about the other boys' behaviour.
What would be the correct course of action in this kind of situation? As a volunteer ref I used to just stay near the goal and use my whistle at the first sign of any silliness, but now I am 'official' I wonder if I should be acting differently?
Is not giving the ball back to the other team immediately after a goal considered a delay of the restart?