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JBeil

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Home team I last had in a PSF which ended in two reds for double YC, away team have a few grumblers. First half seems alright apart from one persistent fouler and one AA incident which ended with a yellow apiece.

Second half, three hot incidents in three minutes, call the captains in - might as well have grabbed a chocolate teapot for all the use they were. Settled down to a grind and ended up with six yellows plus a misconduct, as some charming individual called me a 'cheating ****' but I couldn't tell if they were 'coaches' or just spectators so just a misconduct to go in rather than a red.

Both teams whinging at full-time too - not my fault if you can't win from 3-1 up and miss a penalty, but of course it's always our fault.

I've cleared my diary for the month now, apart from two women's cup games I'd already agreed to, and if come November I want to get some more personal abuse I'll let the league know. Certainly won't be doing any more PSFs for either of these teams in a hurry!
 
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I had a charming individual call me a "c@nt" 3 times in a minute at full time yesterday he also threatened to "do me in" which was laughable but added to the EA report.
My son had to tell a parent to pipe down during an u11 match too.

Dissent and abuse is definitely getting worse, in the last month I have probably received more than in the last 3 seasons combined.
 
I don’t do any Sunday morning games anymore. Not worth the agro or early morning wake up!
Large part of the reason I stopped this year.
Do I miss refereeing, yes, but only because I love football and the fitness side of it.
Do I miss the added extras? Not a chance. And its the added extras that is stopping me going back.
 
Knocked Sunday morning football on the head years ago.

Sunday morning football will drain your soul ...
 
Knocked Sunday morning football on the head years ago.

Sunday morning football will drain your soul ...
I've been refereeing for far less time than you @Kes but I made the same decision yesterday. Two challenging games to start the season and whilst I'm completely unaffected by it, never felt in danger and always felt calm and authoritative, I came off yesterday and concluded it's just not worth the aggro and too many of the players simply don't deserve my/our services.
 
Sunday mornings are for going out and watching promotion candidates, giving them advice and their coaching report.

And most importantly, being that friendly face we all wish we could’ve had when we refereed those matches.
And if everyone was to be good enough to donate even just one half day a month to mentoring/Match Day Coaching, wouldn't that be great?
 
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