Justylove
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Had an incident packed game recently and was being observed on it.
Way too much to go into lots of detail on, however we had 2 separate head injuries incidents, both relating to players clashing with their own team mates, a dog on the pitch, an extra ball on the pitch, a player who when I cautioned him asked me to send him off as he was "sick of playing for this team" and when I only cautioned him made sure he got a second yellow for dissent within seconds, clapped me on the shoulder with a big grin and said "cheers ref, appreciate it" before jogging off the FOP, then sent a substituted player off for OFFINABUS from the dugout, plus 2 open goals missed both from less than 3 yards out! All in all a very odd game.
However two other specific incidents of note:
1) Ball gets kicked forward on on right hand side of pitch, about 5 yards inside the right hand side of 18 yard box, defender and attacker both chasing it, but keeper comes out and collects the ball in his hands, as he picks the ball up, he goes over on his ankle and falls over in obvious pain and manages to carry the ball out of the penalty area in his hands as he rolls in pain. A few members of the attacking team are appealing for a free kick for handball. About 5 minutes of treatment later, keeper is able to continue (but ends up being subbed 5 minutes after that and is the player ironically I send off for OFFINABUS later in the game from the dugout).
2) ball is played forwards, a very high punt. Defender goes to knock it back to the GK with his foot, completely misses the ball which bounces up and on its downward trajectory hits the defenders knee, rolls down his shin onto his toe and then bobbles back to the GK, who promptly picks it up.
Interested to see what people think, then i'll tell you what I did and what the Observer said.....
Way too much to go into lots of detail on, however we had 2 separate head injuries incidents, both relating to players clashing with their own team mates, a dog on the pitch, an extra ball on the pitch, a player who when I cautioned him asked me to send him off as he was "sick of playing for this team" and when I only cautioned him made sure he got a second yellow for dissent within seconds, clapped me on the shoulder with a big grin and said "cheers ref, appreciate it" before jogging off the FOP, then sent a substituted player off for OFFINABUS from the dugout, plus 2 open goals missed both from less than 3 yards out! All in all a very odd game.
However two other specific incidents of note:
1) Ball gets kicked forward on on right hand side of pitch, about 5 yards inside the right hand side of 18 yard box, defender and attacker both chasing it, but keeper comes out and collects the ball in his hands, as he picks the ball up, he goes over on his ankle and falls over in obvious pain and manages to carry the ball out of the penalty area in his hands as he rolls in pain. A few members of the attacking team are appealing for a free kick for handball. About 5 minutes of treatment later, keeper is able to continue (but ends up being subbed 5 minutes after that and is the player ironically I send off for OFFINABUS later in the game from the dugout).
2) ball is played forwards, a very high punt. Defender goes to knock it back to the GK with his foot, completely misses the ball which bounces up and on its downward trajectory hits the defenders knee, rolls down his shin onto his toe and then bobbles back to the GK, who promptly picks it up.
Interested to see what people think, then i'll tell you what I did and what the Observer said.....