As am I. Try hand writing reports in triplicate for 9 red cards in a game. Photocopies weren’t allowed neither was carbon paper. Rang the county FA on the Monday morning to explain that they wouldn’t have them by the Wednesday.
Can’t say it’s ever taken me longer than 5 minutes to complete a match report via full time. Standard questions, then some league specific questions like assistants name and then a score out of 100 for them. Certainly much easier it’s now done via centre circle that’s for sure. Normal procedure...
Where to begin
Made my debut in the FA Cup
County Cup final appointment as AR
Step 6 league cup final appointment as AR
32 games in total
10 as referee
22 as an assistant
🟨 41 including 9 temporary dismissals
🟥 4, 2 of which were in one game
The icing on the cake was my promotion to level 5...
I may or may not have got on the scoresheet as a referee too. Had 2 attempts, reffing a tournament and one team were the whipping boys. Told both teams beforehand that if the opportunity came up I’d be having a go. Corner comes across, edge of the 18 yard box, sits up perfectly begging to be...
It’s happened twice. First time around 25 years ago. Mass confrontation which ended up with 9 red cards.
Second time was last season.
Player sent off in the first half, used all 3 named subs at half time, then 4 players got injured leaving them with 6
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