LM1996
New Member
Feeling dejected and let down after today. Need to get it off my chest so I can focus on tomorrow’s game.
Was on the line today in a game that finished 1-0. The goal was scored from a header following a corner. The ball went in and I flagged to bring the referee over. As the header was made there was an attacking player in an offside position in front of the keeper. I spoke the ref and said that he was in an offside position but couldn’t be sure if he was interfering from my angle. Referee said he was fine so a goal was given and we moved on.
We go in at full time and the referee says to me that he wasn’t actually looking at the incident when it happened and just have the goal. This really annoyed me as I had explained what had happened. Turns out that he sold it to the players saying that I was trying to flag for offside directly from a corner. Not only did this make me look bad and like I didn’t know the laws, he had completely invented a scenario that hadn’t happened. He even said to the players that I was flagging for a player on the near post. Only, there was no player on the near post. Just the attacker stood blocking the keeper.
It just really annoyed me that I’ve been thrown under the bus when all I was trying to do was make sure the goal was legal.
Was on the line today in a game that finished 1-0. The goal was scored from a header following a corner. The ball went in and I flagged to bring the referee over. As the header was made there was an attacking player in an offside position in front of the keeper. I spoke the ref and said that he was in an offside position but couldn’t be sure if he was interfering from my angle. Referee said he was fine so a goal was given and we moved on.
We go in at full time and the referee says to me that he wasn’t actually looking at the incident when it happened and just have the goal. This really annoyed me as I had explained what had happened. Turns out that he sold it to the players saying that I was trying to flag for offside directly from a corner. Not only did this make me look bad and like I didn’t know the laws, he had completely invented a scenario that hadn’t happened. He even said to the players that I was flagging for a player on the near post. Only, there was no player on the near post. Just the attacker stood blocking the keeper.
It just really annoyed me that I’ve been thrown under the bus when all I was trying to do was make sure the goal was legal.