Had a midweek game yesterday (Wednesday) and it was a very eventful one. I feel I did well making some major calls as I was more or less on top of things. Not perfect, but a lot better than I was last season.
Anyway, it was a spicy affair. The S4 came first, DOSGO-handling, it was pretty easy to give as the defender was in the middle of the box on his own and basically denied a goal outright with his hand. What made things spicy though was there was an accidental handball in the other box that I didn't give, but they managed to score from. I think I got that right, defender's hand was by his side in that incident and I don't know what he could have done. It didn't stop people from referencing it though.
A few minutes after that I had another DOSGO, but a yellow this time for the tackle!
Then in the second half, I got my first S3 offence. There was an off the ball incident that I caught just outside my vision, I gave an offside and then ran over to the incident, which was a few handbags being swung around. I was trying to diffuse the situation but they were escalating it further by being silly - like stepping in front of each other to cause a square up etc. Just as I'm about to blow the whistle again to give them a bollocking, the offender goes down to pull his socks up and the victim turns to run away, and the offender just spits at the back of his leg. Cue, appeals from the victim and one of his teammates who was close by (most everyone else wasn't really watching I don't think.)
Well, as I said, I was on top of the incident, so I don't know how he expected me to miss it. Out came the red for spitting, and there we are, my first ever spitting offence in, well, pretty much my entire career. My first DOSGO-H offence that I've actually been in position to spot as well, I know I missed one last season and was pretty annoyed about that. Happy days! (Well, not really, I had hoped I'd never have to do an S3... No idea why people think that is acceptable at all.)
Anyway, it was a spicy affair. The S4 came first, DOSGO-handling, it was pretty easy to give as the defender was in the middle of the box on his own and basically denied a goal outright with his hand. What made things spicy though was there was an accidental handball in the other box that I didn't give, but they managed to score from. I think I got that right, defender's hand was by his side in that incident and I don't know what he could have done. It didn't stop people from referencing it though.
A few minutes after that I had another DOSGO, but a yellow this time for the tackle!
Then in the second half, I got my first S3 offence. There was an off the ball incident that I caught just outside my vision, I gave an offside and then ran over to the incident, which was a few handbags being swung around. I was trying to diffuse the situation but they were escalating it further by being silly - like stepping in front of each other to cause a square up etc. Just as I'm about to blow the whistle again to give them a bollocking, the offender goes down to pull his socks up and the victim turns to run away, and the offender just spits at the back of his leg. Cue, appeals from the victim and one of his teammates who was close by (most everyone else wasn't really watching I don't think.)
Well, as I said, I was on top of the incident, so I don't know how he expected me to miss it. Out came the red for spitting, and there we are, my first ever spitting offence in, well, pretty much my entire career. My first DOSGO-H offence that I've actually been in position to spot as well, I know I missed one last season and was pretty annoyed about that. Happy days! (Well, not really, I had hoped I'd never have to do an S3... No idea why people think that is acceptable at all.)
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