Hi There! New to the forum so apologies if any of my descriptions of situations isn't the same as what is standard around here!
I refereed my first game this weekend, straight into the classic Sunday League adult football! On the whole, everything went well, even had a few words of praise afterwards. However, there were a couple of situations where I don't feel as if I made the correct call so I was just looking for some clarification
1) A direct free kick was given around 25 yards out. I set up the wall etc. However, just before the ball was kicked, a few members of the wall ran forward. The free kick went over the wall and hit the crossbar so I just played on. Later on, I gave another free kick in a similar position. This time after setting up the wall, I gave them a word of warning that I noticed what happened last time. This was ignored and the free kick hit the encroaching player. I blew the whistle and allowed the attacking team to retake. My question is, should this be a retake, or should this be a separate free kick awarded at the point it stuck the encroaching player?
2) One player wasn't happy that he kept losing the ball. His touch was poor and he kept being tackled, fairly I might add. However, every time this happened he felt the need to protest. After this happened a fair few times, I waited for the ball to go out of play and I just had a word with him, just stating that he needs to clam down. From here, he almost became an on the pitch commentator, 'that's a push in the back', 'that's late' and such like. Nobody was arguing these points bar him. Would you class this as dissent? I just ignored him as there was nothing abusive, he was aiming his calls at me, he was just talking out loud.
3) This is my final question (I'm going on a bit). A player on the blue team gave away around 3 free kicks in the first 15 minutes. Nothing malicious, all of which he had full intention of winning the ball. After the third, I had a quick word just asking him to calm down otherwise I'll need to take further action. From here, he didn't give anything away until literally about 20 seconds from the end of the match right in the center of the pitch. Again, just mistimed. His team were 6-1 up, the resulting free kick would have ended with the full time whistle but I didn't caution him. Would you have cautioned him at this stage?
I refereed my first game this weekend, straight into the classic Sunday League adult football! On the whole, everything went well, even had a few words of praise afterwards. However, there were a couple of situations where I don't feel as if I made the correct call so I was just looking for some clarification
1) A direct free kick was given around 25 yards out. I set up the wall etc. However, just before the ball was kicked, a few members of the wall ran forward. The free kick went over the wall and hit the crossbar so I just played on. Later on, I gave another free kick in a similar position. This time after setting up the wall, I gave them a word of warning that I noticed what happened last time. This was ignored and the free kick hit the encroaching player. I blew the whistle and allowed the attacking team to retake. My question is, should this be a retake, or should this be a separate free kick awarded at the point it stuck the encroaching player?
2) One player wasn't happy that he kept losing the ball. His touch was poor and he kept being tackled, fairly I might add. However, every time this happened he felt the need to protest. After this happened a fair few times, I waited for the ball to go out of play and I just had a word with him, just stating that he needs to clam down. From here, he almost became an on the pitch commentator, 'that's a push in the back', 'that's late' and such like. Nobody was arguing these points bar him. Would you class this as dissent? I just ignored him as there was nothing abusive, he was aiming his calls at me, he was just talking out loud.
3) This is my final question (I'm going on a bit). A player on the blue team gave away around 3 free kicks in the first 15 minutes. Nothing malicious, all of which he had full intention of winning the ball. After the third, I had a quick word just asking him to calm down otherwise I'll need to take further action. From here, he didn't give anything away until literally about 20 seconds from the end of the match right in the center of the pitch. Again, just mistimed. His team were 6-1 up, the resulting free kick would have ended with the full time whistle but I didn't caution him. Would you have cautioned him at this stage?