Hi there,
Had one of my first matches a couple of weeks ago and I have another tomorrow, I just had a couple of questions. The questions are in relation to an U11 game.
1) Orange vs Blue, right at the end of the match and a loose ball bounces towards the orange keeper, he has plenty of time and space to comfortably collect it. I think to myself "As soon as he releases the ball up field I'll blow for full time." After he collects it, a good second and a half later a blue striker goes running into him recklessly, and knocks the keeper to the floor in pain. Clearly a foul, I blow for full time, considering that if I give a free kick I'll just be ending the match after it's taken anyway. Thoughts on this?
2) Orange player goes down in which is a 50/50 challenge. I allow the play to continue not thinking it's a foul. He is on the floor and looks up, as he does, a blue players attempts to cross the ball to another player. The ball hits the orange player on the floor in the face from about 6 feet away. Admittedly, unsure what to do, allow play to continue. I don't feel any law has been broken and the blue player was not being malicious, merely trying to make a cross.
3) A player presents himself to me out of nowhere crying and hurt. I honestly had no idea what was wrong as he was nowhere near the action. Luckily the ball went out of play moments after so he could seek help from his manager. If play were to have continued. Should I have stopped the match? If so, would I restart with a dropped ball?
4) In all honesty, I was very lenient with the players on the pitch only blowing for a handful of fouls all match. There was a lot of tackles I may have blown for had it been an adult game, but as it was U11's and the skill level really was rock bottom I allowed them to go. After the game, a spectator gave me his opinion on this, and it has me questioning my approach.
All in all I felt the game went pretty well, and I'm excited for my next match. Although I've got to admit, being the man in the middle was a lot harder than I was expecting it to be! Never again will I shout in disbelief at a Premier league Ref's decision...
Any other advice is also appreciated..
Had one of my first matches a couple of weeks ago and I have another tomorrow, I just had a couple of questions. The questions are in relation to an U11 game.
1) Orange vs Blue, right at the end of the match and a loose ball bounces towards the orange keeper, he has plenty of time and space to comfortably collect it. I think to myself "As soon as he releases the ball up field I'll blow for full time." After he collects it, a good second and a half later a blue striker goes running into him recklessly, and knocks the keeper to the floor in pain. Clearly a foul, I blow for full time, considering that if I give a free kick I'll just be ending the match after it's taken anyway. Thoughts on this?
2) Orange player goes down in which is a 50/50 challenge. I allow the play to continue not thinking it's a foul. He is on the floor and looks up, as he does, a blue players attempts to cross the ball to another player. The ball hits the orange player on the floor in the face from about 6 feet away. Admittedly, unsure what to do, allow play to continue. I don't feel any law has been broken and the blue player was not being malicious, merely trying to make a cross.
3) A player presents himself to me out of nowhere crying and hurt. I honestly had no idea what was wrong as he was nowhere near the action. Luckily the ball went out of play moments after so he could seek help from his manager. If play were to have continued. Should I have stopped the match? If so, would I restart with a dropped ball?
4) In all honesty, I was very lenient with the players on the pitch only blowing for a handful of fouls all match. There was a lot of tackles I may have blown for had it been an adult game, but as it was U11's and the skill level really was rock bottom I allowed them to go. After the game, a spectator gave me his opinion on this, and it has me questioning my approach.
All in all I felt the game went pretty well, and I'm excited for my next match. Although I've got to admit, being the man in the middle was a lot harder than I was expecting it to be! Never again will I shout in disbelief at a Premier league Ref's decision...
Any other advice is also appreciated..