RegalRef
Politically Incorrect
Feel the need to vent a bit after a game this afternoon, and this seems the safest place to do so.
Ladies game, open age. Done the home team (red) quite a few times, but first time for away (blue).
Always had a good relationship with home manager and coach, and generally always have good games in this league.
Today though after about 40 minutes coach on home side is constantly loudly giving shouts of 'we're getting nothing here ref', despite the fact I'd allowed a marginal offside to his teams advantage (which they scored), played an excellent advantage for his team (which they scored) and spotted a shirt pull on the edge of the box, which I thought was a good spot to be fair (which his team scored from).
But they've had nothing?
The only thing of any note I could see that had perhaps gone against his team was a marginal offside which I called as player was in line and blue scored from the resulting attack (albeit from some shocking defending).
Half time was 3-1 to home team.
Second half continued very much the same way, constant moaning when offside was given against his players, even if they were yards and yards offside and it was clear to everyone.
At one point on about 75 minutes he said to one of the parents on the line loudly for my benefit 'We've not had one of these offsides in our favour all game. Not one. Ridiculous.'
I gave him the Collina death stare and he shut straight up, heard nothing for the rest of the game.
I must say nothing in my opinion warranted a word or misconduct report.
Afterwards as we complete the paperwork I made a point of asking him what his problem was in a jokey way, with plenty of witnesses in earshot. 'Gave me an unusually hard time on that side today Dave didn't you?'. All I got in reply was an upwards nod of the head and he looked away.
As I signed the match report I saw he'd still given me 85/100, so can't be that bad.
After I got changed and walked past them, he said, 'guess we'll see you again then eh?'
I kept my reply and body language confident and went back to my car.
What is the problem with these people?
Ladies game, open age. Done the home team (red) quite a few times, but first time for away (blue).
Always had a good relationship with home manager and coach, and generally always have good games in this league.
Today though after about 40 minutes coach on home side is constantly loudly giving shouts of 'we're getting nothing here ref', despite the fact I'd allowed a marginal offside to his teams advantage (which they scored), played an excellent advantage for his team (which they scored) and spotted a shirt pull on the edge of the box, which I thought was a good spot to be fair (which his team scored from).
But they've had nothing?
The only thing of any note I could see that had perhaps gone against his team was a marginal offside which I called as player was in line and blue scored from the resulting attack (albeit from some shocking defending).
Half time was 3-1 to home team.
Second half continued very much the same way, constant moaning when offside was given against his players, even if they were yards and yards offside and it was clear to everyone.
At one point on about 75 minutes he said to one of the parents on the line loudly for my benefit 'We've not had one of these offsides in our favour all game. Not one. Ridiculous.'
I gave him the Collina death stare and he shut straight up, heard nothing for the rest of the game.
I must say nothing in my opinion warranted a word or misconduct report.
Afterwards as we complete the paperwork I made a point of asking him what his problem was in a jokey way, with plenty of witnesses in earshot. 'Gave me an unusually hard time on that side today Dave didn't you?'. All I got in reply was an upwards nod of the head and he looked away.
As I signed the match report I saw he'd still given me 85/100, so can't be that bad.
After I got changed and walked past them, he said, 'guess we'll see you again then eh?'
I kept my reply and body language confident and went back to my car.
What is the problem with these people?
