SM
The avuncular one
A bit of an oddity today. Ladies game - ball is crossed in to the box and a defender heads it away, nice clean forehead header, pretty much back to the crosser. I think nothing of it really, no contact on the defender by anyone, but then I see she is on the floor and there are the usual calls of "head injury ref!"
The ball luckily goes out of play while I am thinking about what has just happened. I stop the game and go over to her and she gets up. She says "I hurt my head, heading the ball"
No treatment, game restarts. Left me thinking. If a player goes down every time they head the ball away claiming head injury, Will the world of football implode into a ball of pseudo cheating mush of gamesmanship?
Thinking about it now, I probably would have stopped the game if the ball hadn't gone out before I got the chance. Head injury as a result of heading the ball though? Oddity.
The ball luckily goes out of play while I am thinking about what has just happened. I stop the game and go over to her and she gets up. She says "I hurt my head, heading the ball"
No treatment, game restarts. Left me thinking. If a player goes down every time they head the ball away claiming head injury, Will the world of football implode into a ball of pseudo cheating mush of gamesmanship?
Thinking about it now, I probably would have stopped the game if the ball hadn't gone out before I got the chance. Head injury as a result of heading the ball though? Oddity.