Steve C
The Unfit one!
Greens (3rd) vs Yellows (6thish)
Couple of mandatory yellows to green for blatant holding/shirt pulling and verbal distraction while up for a header.
Yellows winning 4-2, tackle from yellow goes in on green, reckless, late, i run over issue the card and tell the player no more or he's off so that everyone can see I've dealt with it so it should minimise backlash. Green reacts a bit by pushing the lad to the ground as hes trying to get up so I tell him i understand why he's upset but to calm down and let me deal with it as he should concentrate on the football and Ill concentrate on the players who infringe the game. As im giving him the small lecture he peers around me to look at the player getting to his feet and calls him a 'F***ing Idiot', I then issue the lemon to him too and tell him, adopting an aggressive attitude/dissent and to put a lid on it. Green walks over to take him away, and as he walks away he turns around and shouts 'f*** off' aimed at either me or the tackler (either way I dont care, its a second yellow for dissent) issue the cherry, *cue greens surrounding me*. During the last half hour the lad sent off shouts things at me like 'Youre a magician ref' (he was Italian i think), and at the end of the game 'can i put my shoes on or is that a red too?'. Game finishes 5-3 to yellows and the greens GK comes over 'whats your name ref?' So i reply, 'Why?' he says he wants to report me to the FA... (Im nearly laughing inside thinking is this guy for real?). Unluckily for him and the lad sent off who was also chiming in, the league manager was on the sidelines for the second half... They both marched over followed by me and the GK said 'ive done the reffing course and the first thing they teach you is player management and not being card happy about it'. (again, here comes a lad whos a level 15 so watch out!). I explain to them both in the little meeting why he got binned and (thank you last weeks ref) 'never got booked last week for doing it 10 times let alone once' (i also happen to know in that game there was a fight and 3 players got binned due to poor match control). I was swift to point this out to him. He also accused me of booking 6 players when they didnt make one tackle all game... i booked 3, 2 as shown above (mandatory) and I mistook the identity of someone so overturned a card I had shown for simulation, so in effect, I called his BS. The league manager intervenes with 'the 3 categories for tackles are careless, reckless, EF, that tackle was reckless, nothing more, the yellow was correct and the ref had warned him about his conduct so he was correct in the subsequent yellows. So if you wish to report this higher to the university and/or the FA, then do so but as league manager witnessing the incident, I am fully backing the referee as he was correct in his conduct completely and your report will get nowhere.' Spoke with the LM after the game and he said '100/100 for that second half, great match control, great incident tackling (if you'll pardon the pun) and all round good decisions, Its very likely youll get the campus cup final now after that, if you think you can handle it.' RESULT!
Sorry for long post, just thought you guys might like to hear a victory for the refereeing side of the fence!
Couple of mandatory yellows to green for blatant holding/shirt pulling and verbal distraction while up for a header.
Yellows winning 4-2, tackle from yellow goes in on green, reckless, late, i run over issue the card and tell the player no more or he's off so that everyone can see I've dealt with it so it should minimise backlash. Green reacts a bit by pushing the lad to the ground as hes trying to get up so I tell him i understand why he's upset but to calm down and let me deal with it as he should concentrate on the football and Ill concentrate on the players who infringe the game. As im giving him the small lecture he peers around me to look at the player getting to his feet and calls him a 'F***ing Idiot', I then issue the lemon to him too and tell him, adopting an aggressive attitude/dissent and to put a lid on it. Green walks over to take him away, and as he walks away he turns around and shouts 'f*** off' aimed at either me or the tackler (either way I dont care, its a second yellow for dissent) issue the cherry, *cue greens surrounding me*. During the last half hour the lad sent off shouts things at me like 'Youre a magician ref' (he was Italian i think), and at the end of the game 'can i put my shoes on or is that a red too?'. Game finishes 5-3 to yellows and the greens GK comes over 'whats your name ref?' So i reply, 'Why?' he says he wants to report me to the FA... (Im nearly laughing inside thinking is this guy for real?). Unluckily for him and the lad sent off who was also chiming in, the league manager was on the sidelines for the second half... They both marched over followed by me and the GK said 'ive done the reffing course and the first thing they teach you is player management and not being card happy about it'. (again, here comes a lad whos a level 15 so watch out!). I explain to them both in the little meeting why he got binned and (thank you last weeks ref) 'never got booked last week for doing it 10 times let alone once' (i also happen to know in that game there was a fight and 3 players got binned due to poor match control). I was swift to point this out to him. He also accused me of booking 6 players when they didnt make one tackle all game... i booked 3, 2 as shown above (mandatory) and I mistook the identity of someone so overturned a card I had shown for simulation, so in effect, I called his BS. The league manager intervenes with 'the 3 categories for tackles are careless, reckless, EF, that tackle was reckless, nothing more, the yellow was correct and the ref had warned him about his conduct so he was correct in the subsequent yellows. So if you wish to report this higher to the university and/or the FA, then do so but as league manager witnessing the incident, I am fully backing the referee as he was correct in his conduct completely and your report will get nowhere.' Spoke with the LM after the game and he said '100/100 for that second half, great match control, great incident tackling (if you'll pardon the pun) and all round good decisions, Its very likely youll get the campus cup final now after that, if you think you can handle it.' RESULT!
Sorry for long post, just thought you guys might like to hear a victory for the refereeing side of the fence!