One of the leagues I regularly referee have been giving me a local team. I had them 3 weeks in a row, home and away.
They've been doing well in the league, but the last 3 weeks I have had them against 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the league and they lost them all. No major decisions to make on my end, games were all pretty decisive.
Their manager is "an ex referee" (absolute nightmare dealing with ex-referees, comes into my changing room at full time to tell me how I should have refereed and tells me a bunch of nonsense about mini decisions that went against his team). During the game today I heard him screaming at me to yellow someone over and over so when the ball went out of play I yellowed him. He denied saying it to me but he was saying it to his club assistant lino, and the crowd behind him started saying I had confused them for him, I am 99% sure I hadn't. So yellow stands.
As I walked away I just kept hearing the bench or the crowd saying "this guy f****** hates us, had it in for us for weeks".
Full time manager approaches me saying, "now you know you were wrong about that yellow, I assume you won't be putting it through". Told him I will be putting it through and we can talk about it in the changing room (then I snuck out of the venue before he arrived).
Well just got appointed the reverse fixture of todays game.
So do I email appointments officer saying I can't do them a 4th time for which will likely be a 4th loss and likely a 4th assassination of my club scores. Or do I just brave another game.
They've been doing well in the league, but the last 3 weeks I have had them against 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the league and they lost them all. No major decisions to make on my end, games were all pretty decisive.
Their manager is "an ex referee" (absolute nightmare dealing with ex-referees, comes into my changing room at full time to tell me how I should have refereed and tells me a bunch of nonsense about mini decisions that went against his team). During the game today I heard him screaming at me to yellow someone over and over so when the ball went out of play I yellowed him. He denied saying it to me but he was saying it to his club assistant lino, and the crowd behind him started saying I had confused them for him, I am 99% sure I hadn't. So yellow stands.
As I walked away I just kept hearing the bench or the crowd saying "this guy f****** hates us, had it in for us for weeks".
Full time manager approaches me saying, "now you know you were wrong about that yellow, I assume you won't be putting it through". Told him I will be putting it through and we can talk about it in the changing room (then I snuck out of the venue before he arrived).
Well just got appointed the reverse fixture of todays game.
So do I email appointments officer saying I can't do them a 4th time for which will likely be a 4th loss and likely a 4th assassination of my club scores. Or do I just brave another game.