Today I did my 1st middle for ages. My calfs muscles were struggling from yesterday's game and a lot of fitness training recently.
The ball got lofted forward and the home team were winning comfortably. The home team were attacking and I was in the attacking half trying to make ground up. The defender brings down the attacker in the box. The foul was on RH side of the box. A clear GSO and prob the last man. II blow for a foul. I had the usual congratulations from the away team.
Then to my surprise the defender who fouled the player came and found me and said "is it a red ref". The tempo of the game was good. I could count on one hand how many fouls I gave during the game and none came close to a YC. I gave her a stern talking to and even admitted he could have got the player before the ball.
The pen was scored. This was about 6/7min to the final whistle. I never heard a thing out of the same player before the foul or after it. None of the players were protesting I didn't issue a RC.
I believe I man managed it well. One of the home team players said to be after the game I did well not to issue cards during the game. I took that as a compliment as I man-managed the game in my way.
The ball got lofted forward and the home team were winning comfortably. The home team were attacking and I was in the attacking half trying to make ground up. The defender brings down the attacker in the box. The foul was on RH side of the box. A clear GSO and prob the last man. II blow for a foul. I had the usual congratulations from the away team.
Then to my surprise the defender who fouled the player came and found me and said "is it a red ref". The tempo of the game was good. I could count on one hand how many fouls I gave during the game and none came close to a YC. I gave her a stern talking to and even admitted he could have got the player before the ball.
The pen was scored. This was about 6/7min to the final whistle. I never heard a thing out of the same player before the foul or after it. None of the players were protesting I didn't issue a RC.
I believe I man managed it well. One of the home team players said to be after the game I did well not to issue cards during the game. I took that as a compliment as I man-managed the game in my way.