Hi,
I'm after peoples advice! I took a break from refereeing back in October 2023 and haven't refereed since. The reason I stopped was it felt like every single game, the dissent was so much that I lost all joy of officiating. Back in the 2022/23 season, I loved it! I achieved promotion to Level 6, officiated 2 cup finals, one being a county cup final and I genuinely wanted to progress further however as I started the 23/24 season, as mentioned, the amount of dissent got so high and despite sanctions like Sin Bins and some Red Cards for Offensive & Abusive language, nothing seemed to calm it down.
I'm now moving up to Manchester where I'll transfer to the Manchester FA in August and I'm toying with the idea of coming back to refereeing. I was getting to a point with refereeing where I was working in a team of 3 officials and I loved it, it made such a change to having Substitutes as the ARs but when you go back to being the sole referee in a grassroots game, you feel so lonely.
I also don't want to give every single free weekend up to referee as there are times I want to be able to spend those days with my family.
Does anyone have any advice? Is anyone based in the Manchester FA and know if there's leagues that continuously work with a team of 3 officials? And Should I make a return to officiating?
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I'm after peoples advice! I took a break from refereeing back in October 2023 and haven't refereed since. The reason I stopped was it felt like every single game, the dissent was so much that I lost all joy of officiating. Back in the 2022/23 season, I loved it! I achieved promotion to Level 6, officiated 2 cup finals, one being a county cup final and I genuinely wanted to progress further however as I started the 23/24 season, as mentioned, the amount of dissent got so high and despite sanctions like Sin Bins and some Red Cards for Offensive & Abusive language, nothing seemed to calm it down.
I'm now moving up to Manchester where I'll transfer to the Manchester FA in August and I'm toying with the idea of coming back to refereeing. I was getting to a point with refereeing where I was working in a team of 3 officials and I loved it, it made such a change to having Substitutes as the ARs but when you go back to being the sole referee in a grassroots game, you feel so lonely.
I also don't want to give every single free weekend up to referee as there are times I want to be able to spend those days with my family.
Does anyone have any advice? Is anyone based in the Manchester FA and know if there's leagues that continuously work with a team of 3 officials? And Should I make a return to officiating?
Thanks
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