Hi all
After some experienced opinions on this. Into my first few "proper" games now. Mostly youth, but also getting OA fixtures. This one relates to U13 fixture from yesterday.
Ball played down the left wing. Looked offside so I glance over to lino.
"Handball, penalty!"
No idea. The ball had come in surprisingly quickly and I was looking at (for!) the lino.
"Didn't see it, can't give it."
So first lesson learnt - check for o/s at a slightly better time, but here is the question. I was pretty certain that given the responses that it was handball. I wasn't going to give it based on the players' calls but would you have spoken to the CAR? He'd been a bit dodgy with some offsides and a former L3 ref/parent had had to leave as he basically said he was cheating - I chose to absent myself from that conversation!
The match ended up 8-1 so little impact on the game, but what would you have done with what was probably a deliberate hb in the box that you didn't see?
After some experienced opinions on this. Into my first few "proper" games now. Mostly youth, but also getting OA fixtures. This one relates to U13 fixture from yesterday.
Ball played down the left wing. Looked offside so I glance over to lino.
"Handball, penalty!"
No idea. The ball had come in surprisingly quickly and I was looking at (for!) the lino.
"Didn't see it, can't give it."
So first lesson learnt - check for o/s at a slightly better time, but here is the question. I was pretty certain that given the responses that it was handball. I wasn't going to give it based on the players' calls but would you have spoken to the CAR? He'd been a bit dodgy with some offsides and a former L3 ref/parent had had to leave as he basically said he was cheating - I chose to absent myself from that conversation!
The match ended up 8-1 so little impact on the game, but what would you have done with what was probably a deliberate hb in the box that you didn't see?