Recent content by GCS1982

I got mine through the post, did even order one. Good old SFA.

Jeez, your a barrel of laughs.....

One of my biggest bug bears when refereeing is folk constantly asking How long to go ref, half the time I just make up a number, I often completely ignore them or pretend I never heard them, then for the next few mins, Ref,Ref,Ref how long to go ref!! Agghhhh! what kind of niff naff trivia...

Nah not really hung up about it, just found it strange. but hey ho! i can imagine it being a lonely place :-)

Thanks for the info, will take that into the next game. Our RA always have a mentor / observer for your 1st game to qualify you to referee on your own. Eeeeek!

Thank you, yeh on reading my post it is quite negative, there can be alot of positives to take out of refereeing my 1st game, I have high expectations or high standards, I just have to remember I am starting at the bottom of the ladder & its U14's :-)

yeh was a bit different to what i was expecting, maybe cos I was out of my comfort zone, More experience I get the more I think I will enjoy it.

Yeh understand your reasons, i took my time getting changed etc made sure I had everything as it was my 1st match. My next match will do team sheets, so I will need time to write my copy into my notebook. Carry out decent warm up, meet coaches. An hour is nothing really.

So my 1st match as a referee was carried out at the weekend, the match was an U14 friendly, so therefore no team sheets or proper substitutions were taking place, subs rolling on & off with my discretion. The “away” team only had 10 players so had to borrow a goalkeeper from the “home” team...

So what would you do if the parent did not leave the football pitch area? if it carried on would you look to abandon the match or would you explain to the coach you would report it to the local authorities?

Thanks mate, that's great info!!

Thank you for your answer. Would be good if "experienced referees" would answer like this instead of just jumping in and replying that doesn't make sense at all. We all started somewhere.

When I was a youngster playing the game, the referee would always come in to the changing room, check players boots, ensure no jewellery was on, sock tape was same colour of the socks and say have a good game etc, however since I have started playing Sunday League football the referee turns up...

I was asking that person directly, however many thanks for your valuable comment. Yes I have noticed most questions seem to be asked several times, however It would have just been easier to not to comment if you couldnt be helpful.

Do you speak to players/ managers in there changing room prior to the match? if so what sort of stuff do you say? I'm due to referee my 1st match soon U14 level however as a current Sunday League player, I never see the referee until the start of the match.