Reffing a Women’s league game this afternoon. Home team losing 1-2 and not really looking like changing that. Away team sweep in a cross/shot which evades everyone including the nearest attacker, who made no effort to play the ball, but was running across (and offside). Linesman (provided by the home team) obviously flags furiously for offside. I ignore it and give the goal. Uproar descends. Linesman kicks off because apparently I should have chatted to him. Manager kicks off because obviously he doesn’t think the goal should have stood. They spend the next twenty minutes until FT loudly complaining. Players pick up on it and start whinging too. Tackles start flying in and four players are booked! At the end of the game, the manager rounds up all his home players, meters from where I am and loudly complains that “you were all good today but youve been robbed by a terrible refereeing decision!” Why can coaches never take a long hard look at themselves and their own faults as a coach rather than publicly blaming the ref? It’s such an easy and pathetic way out but it rubs off on all the players to the point where their behaviour worsens. How the hell did that decision rob his team? No wonder so many refs don’t last long.