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Futsal sorry, so includes the dreaded time out.
Blues are up 5-3. 45 seconds to go. Bar codes want a time out. Tetchy match. Fast match. Good level 20 year olds. Bar codes captain already cautioned for complaining. A couple of warnings to players to stop escalation off the ball. One other YC given. One (easy) non handball decision before a goal. A couple of punished slides. A couple of fair slides. And I had been hit square in the jaw with force by the ball earlier.
Anyway, 45 seconds to go. I know to wait until play is dead and the bar codes have possession before they can have the time out. Blues keep possession, get a couple of kick ins. 10 seconds to go, ball out, I order the time out. My colleague frantically waves. Oh FFS it's still a blue ball. Bar codes have started changing keeper. I now have to undo the time out signal. But with the bar codes GK off due to my mistake I feel I have to let them get the sub on - which was the whole purpose of the time out of course!
Vehement complaints from the blues until the final whistle. Followed by every bar code one by one after the final whistle complaining about something - the hand ball, this slider, that push. I think one even wanted to give back the OG they had benefitted from!
Point being: Match control, communication and movement were actually good, even very good up to that point, given the difficult game, until the last 10 seconds. Then I just signalled too quickly and the house came down - at least no bad language, violence, but still. And of course one of our ref tutors was ref#2 opposite me
Blues are up 5-3. 45 seconds to go. Bar codes want a time out. Tetchy match. Fast match. Good level 20 year olds. Bar codes captain already cautioned for complaining. A couple of warnings to players to stop escalation off the ball. One other YC given. One (easy) non handball decision before a goal. A couple of punished slides. A couple of fair slides. And I had been hit square in the jaw with force by the ball earlier.
Anyway, 45 seconds to go. I know to wait until play is dead and the bar codes have possession before they can have the time out. Blues keep possession, get a couple of kick ins. 10 seconds to go, ball out, I order the time out. My colleague frantically waves. Oh FFS it's still a blue ball. Bar codes have started changing keeper. I now have to undo the time out signal. But with the bar codes GK off due to my mistake I feel I have to let them get the sub on - which was the whole purpose of the time out of course!
Vehement complaints from the blues until the final whistle. Followed by every bar code one by one after the final whistle complaining about something - the hand ball, this slider, that push. I think one even wanted to give back the OG they had benefitted from!
Point being: Match control, communication and movement were actually good, even very good up to that point, given the difficult game, until the last 10 seconds. Then I just signalled too quickly and the house came down - at least no bad language, violence, but still. And of course one of our ref tutors was ref#2 opposite me