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You have 2 issues to manage here, the team that is taking their time and the the other team complaining about the delays. Hearing you being verbally persuasive to the team taking their time helps you with game control but you are expected to take action if it continues. Telling the other team...

As you get older and more experienced, you will learn to appreciate the more challenging games and be drawn towards them. You'll also learn to nip things in the bud earlier and manage the adults more effectively. Don't be put off by it

There's a duty of care that the player didn't show. If you don't give it telling people it was an accident you can be certain players will then claim every contact is an accident

The first thing you need to accept is there will always be moaning. Every decision you make is supported by one team, questioned by the other and moaning starts if they don't agree with you. As soon as you accept that things will look different. As you become more experienced, you'll actually...

Or tell them to get on with the game, reminding them that it is a physical game

My observation is the amount of players surrounding the ref and their reaction to his decisions and nothing done

Like others here I'm relieved that you are now the worst referee instead of me. Grassroots players are not good at self evaluation when they're getting beat or not playing well. Their first instinct is to blame the ref. You will get some games when you will get grief throughout every time you...

When players ask how long ref, 12 inches isn't an appropriate answer

If I had been assaulted in this manner, and that’s what this is, assault, absolutely I would’ve abandoned the game.

I used to do 2 on a sat and 1 or 2 on a Sunday. A midweek one would be a welcome addition. However, since Covid, that’s having it quite bad, I’ve never had the same energy levels or enthusiasm for it and do just the 1 game on a Saturday and really enjoy it. Was it covid or is it because now the...

Out of interest, when the ball hit you, did you abandon the game or carry on?

what other posters are attempting to do is to help you in the event of a hearing. You need to be correct in law otherwise you’ll be discredited. It doesn’t change the misconduct though. You may benefit from reading the laws and using that as your bible rather than the list of offences on whole...

Opening post said he was about to blow??

Why not just blow the whistle for time when the ball went out for a throw? Even at the point of them asking, if your reasoning is your about to blow, then just blow, saves a whole world of pain

Just a note about parents and your comment that they can’t be bothered. It is very rare for parents to go to U18 games in my experience. It starts to die off at U16. A combination of parents have been going for 10 years, the players now make their own way there and the players don’t want their...

Another way to look at this, if you were a parent of 11 or 12 year old that was on the receiving end of a punch, what would you expect the referee to do?

as an addition to this, presumably it was said for all to hear too including players and parents/spectators? It’s just unacceptable he n Ed’s to keep his opinion to himself. There is still too much of this and much worse towards referees, showing a red maybe the only way that this manager will...

as an addition to this, presumably it was said for all to hear too including players and parents/spectators? It’s just unacceptable he n Ed’s to keep his opinion to himself. There is still too much of this and much worse towards referees, showing a red maybe the only way that this manager will...

Well in theory sent him off. Just didn’t show Red but told him he can’t return and can’t be subbed. Obviously a brain fart moment

Player receives yellow card for a yellow card offence. Simple. Then shows dissent and shown yellow and sent to sin bin. Told he’s sent off, but do you show a red card? I read it that you just show the second yellow and tell player he’s sent off. Reason for asking is I did that in an OA game...