I think I had a very good game yesterday. School games (secondary) my school year 10 vs another school year 10’s. I’m year 11 and I referee a fair amount of the games for my school. I was told early in the morning when I went to drop my stuff off to the PE department (too much to carry round school all day) that it would be a tasty game. It was. The first half was pretty good. My school 1-3 down, eventually loosing 2-4. The second half is where it all starts. About 7 minutes in, a bad tackle. Easy yellow. It’s very late. Other player gets up and reacts and then it all kicks off. The captains were really good and got their players in order. I booked both. Booked the reaction first. Then went to show the yellow to the home player- admittingly, I had shown the yellow first for the home player as I already knew his name and what have you so just showed it as he was being taken away by his captain and other players. Then a few more silly tackles, nothing too bad. I spoke to the players and everything was good. Then in the last couple of minutes, the away captain was slagging off the home team, every time they misplaced a pass or tackle he would start laughing and shouting at them and swearing (so did other players on his team) and I had enough so called him over and said it was enough and he said ‘book me then, I don’t care’ so I did. Then a last minute penalty for the home team, which their linesmen was flagging that it wasn’t but I ignored as he wasn’t a NAR. Away players were shouting to look at him and I tried explaining that he wasn’t a NAR so I couldn’t for fouls. They said that I had listening to the Home AR earlier. I had, because he gave the Away team a foul then I was booking the away captain and he said I hadn’t seen it. So I just let them take a FK (maybe the wrong thing to do? I don’t usually let that happen- interesting to see people’s thoughts? I hadn’t processed it until after the FK) but after the game it was ok. The players still mouthing off to each other and their teachers had a massive go at them. The Away teacher even brought me in at FT to talk infront of his players about how they behaved towards the opposition and me. He said he would get me whenever he could if I was nearer to him. I laughed and said thank you and he said no honestly I would you were excellent. My mum even got a phone call from the PE department (specifically the teacher who was taking this match today) to say that he was very proud of me today and that he thought I was excellent. Even when things were kicking off, he never felt he had to step in to calm things down. He said my game management, control, whistle, and voice were spot on today. I found it a big positive. I now have a mens game today at 2pm so hopefully can do well in that game later. Thought I would post something positive. Any other positive stories today from anyone? Everyone focuses on improvement but sometimes we should focus on what we’ve done really well.
Thank you all
Thank you all
but yes good advice and something for me to take on board. Thank you!
) - but mostly for the experience of a good standard of football!