HarryD
Well-Known Member
After a few days to reflect and recover, I feel I'm finally ready to post about my U18 game from Sunday which resulted in one caution, two dismissals and nine misconduct reports. Yellow and Black were the home team and Claret and Blue were the away team. Final score: A-A.
The home team went 4-0 up rather quickly, from a penalty, a free kick (brilliantly taken) and two open play goals in an end to end half which just flew by. However in the 35th minute, I had to caution a home striker for saying to the other teams CAR after an offside decision 'f off lino!'. The next ten minutes continued like the first 45, with the Claret and Blues picking up a goal just before half time to make it 4-1. After half time, the match really got interesting.
End to end stuff, quite a feisty game but managed to keep the players out of the book until the 70th minute, cautioning an away CB for saying 'f off ref!' after I gave a DFK just outside the box against him. 75th minute, penalty for away team which was put away. Was amazed about a lack of dissent for both penalty decisions, but I digress...
80th minute and a run down the wing by a home team player. He was taken down by the CB who was previously cautioned earlier on in the game. As I was about to blow and issue the CB his second caution due to a reckless challenge, him and the fouled player began to square up to each other. I blew the whistle and called both of them over 3 times. Before I got the opportunity to do anything else, the club assistant ran onto the pitch and started squaring up to the fouled player. They began to push and shove and throw punches at each other, which is when 17 players piled in at once. I blew my whistle like there was no tomorrow, hoping it would stop and it did start to calm a little bit... But then the parents got involved. One parent said to a player 'what are you looking at? I'll punch you in the face'. Another parent got involved saying 'dont talk like that to him, he's 16! If you're gonna punch anyone its gonna be me - come on then!!' It was a terrifying experience and at that point I blew the final whistle. 83 minutes into the match - game over. At which point everyone stopped fighting and I became public enemy number one.
As I retrieved one flag off of the Mike Tyson of a CAR, the player who committed the foul (remember that?) asked me 'what the f do you think you're doing blowing the final whistle?' I showed him the second caution for said foul, and he said 'you should give up refereeing, you're effing s***!' Cheers mate!! As I got the flag from another linesman, a player said to me 'HarryD (as in first name and surname) you're a mug.' No idea how he got my name. I issued a straight red for OFFINABUS and asked for his name. He didn't give it to me. (The CAR from the other team grabbed my card and almost ripped it in two when I showed the red - what an idiot!) I asked his coach, he said 'I don't know who that is' but when the sent off player argued his case to me, the coach said '(insert name of sent off player here) shut up and go away!'. From reading the full time website, there was only one player with that name. I went home immediately without showing any cards for fighting because I didn't feel safe to do so. My safety was my top priority.
So, 1 caution - dissent towards linesman. 2 dismissals - S6 and S7. 9 misconduct reports:
1 + 2 - both teams players for fighting. 3 + 4 - both teams spectators for behaving in the manner they did. 5 + 6 = both teams sent off players - 1 for his comments after dismissal and the other for refusal to give name. 7+8 - Both CARS - one for fighting and the other for grabbing my card during a dismissal. And 9 - the coach who didn't give me the name of the player who I sent off.
If you can't understand it, read it again. It'll make sense eventually.
That was my horror story from Sunday, I hope to never experience such an event again.
EDIT: SORRY FOR THE ESSAY!!
The home team went 4-0 up rather quickly, from a penalty, a free kick (brilliantly taken) and two open play goals in an end to end half which just flew by. However in the 35th minute, I had to caution a home striker for saying to the other teams CAR after an offside decision 'f off lino!'. The next ten minutes continued like the first 45, with the Claret and Blues picking up a goal just before half time to make it 4-1. After half time, the match really got interesting.
End to end stuff, quite a feisty game but managed to keep the players out of the book until the 70th minute, cautioning an away CB for saying 'f off ref!' after I gave a DFK just outside the box against him. 75th minute, penalty for away team which was put away. Was amazed about a lack of dissent for both penalty decisions, but I digress...
80th minute and a run down the wing by a home team player. He was taken down by the CB who was previously cautioned earlier on in the game. As I was about to blow and issue the CB his second caution due to a reckless challenge, him and the fouled player began to square up to each other. I blew the whistle and called both of them over 3 times. Before I got the opportunity to do anything else, the club assistant ran onto the pitch and started squaring up to the fouled player. They began to push and shove and throw punches at each other, which is when 17 players piled in at once. I blew my whistle like there was no tomorrow, hoping it would stop and it did start to calm a little bit... But then the parents got involved. One parent said to a player 'what are you looking at? I'll punch you in the face'. Another parent got involved saying 'dont talk like that to him, he's 16! If you're gonna punch anyone its gonna be me - come on then!!' It was a terrifying experience and at that point I blew the final whistle. 83 minutes into the match - game over. At which point everyone stopped fighting and I became public enemy number one.
As I retrieved one flag off of the Mike Tyson of a CAR, the player who committed the foul (remember that?) asked me 'what the f do you think you're doing blowing the final whistle?' I showed him the second caution for said foul, and he said 'you should give up refereeing, you're effing s***!' Cheers mate!! As I got the flag from another linesman, a player said to me 'HarryD (as in first name and surname) you're a mug.' No idea how he got my name. I issued a straight red for OFFINABUS and asked for his name. He didn't give it to me. (The CAR from the other team grabbed my card and almost ripped it in two when I showed the red - what an idiot!) I asked his coach, he said 'I don't know who that is' but when the sent off player argued his case to me, the coach said '(insert name of sent off player here) shut up and go away!'. From reading the full time website, there was only one player with that name. I went home immediately without showing any cards for fighting because I didn't feel safe to do so. My safety was my top priority.
So, 1 caution - dissent towards linesman. 2 dismissals - S6 and S7. 9 misconduct reports:
1 + 2 - both teams players for fighting. 3 + 4 - both teams spectators for behaving in the manner they did. 5 + 6 = both teams sent off players - 1 for his comments after dismissal and the other for refusal to give name. 7+8 - Both CARS - one for fighting and the other for grabbing my card during a dismissal. And 9 - the coach who didn't give me the name of the player who I sent off.
If you can't understand it, read it again. It'll make sense eventually.
That was my horror story from Sunday, I hope to never experience such an event again.EDIT: SORRY FOR THE ESSAY!!
