Hello all,
To start off I had been assigned an U12 game, which would of been my 5th game as a referee and expected it to be just a normal and quite simple match, as they are only 12 and 13 after all.
We started off and everything was fine, apart from a few bad challenges here and there but nothing serious, until an argument, near the end of the match broke out between two players. Obviously I blew my whistle and asked them both to come towards me with the intention to just have a quite word with them. However, then the blue player decides to push the yellow player, while also swearing at him. After this, Blue player refused to come over, and then pushed me, shouting “you’re a sh*t referee”. I had enough at this point and thought It was only right to show him a red card, only for him to attempt to knock the book and card out of my hand, then to storm off the pitch. This then followed by his Dad entering the pitch, while threatening me and also also shouting abuse towards me, and demanded a reason for what I sent off his son, but refused to listen when I calmly explained my reasoning. Luckily, the coaches managed to calm him down, and then left he field of play. At this point, I considered abandoning but as there was only three minutes left, I just finished off the game. A full discipline and misconduct report had been submitted to the FA, and they seem to be taking very seriously.
Do you all have any tips, or disagree with how I handled the situation?
To start off I had been assigned an U12 game, which would of been my 5th game as a referee and expected it to be just a normal and quite simple match, as they are only 12 and 13 after all.
We started off and everything was fine, apart from a few bad challenges here and there but nothing serious, until an argument, near the end of the match broke out between two players. Obviously I blew my whistle and asked them both to come towards me with the intention to just have a quite word with them. However, then the blue player decides to push the yellow player, while also swearing at him. After this, Blue player refused to come over, and then pushed me, shouting “you’re a sh*t referee”. I had enough at this point and thought It was only right to show him a red card, only for him to attempt to knock the book and card out of my hand, then to storm off the pitch. This then followed by his Dad entering the pitch, while threatening me and also also shouting abuse towards me, and demanded a reason for what I sent off his son, but refused to listen when I calmly explained my reasoning. Luckily, the coaches managed to calm him down, and then left he field of play. At this point, I considered abandoning but as there was only three minutes left, I just finished off the game. A full discipline and misconduct report had been submitted to the FA, and they seem to be taking very seriously.
Do you all have any tips, or disagree with how I handled the situation?
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