IslandReferee
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Aloha guys, funny but yet the same old ****. Ran a JV boys game in the middle. This is U16 High School ball. Good game until late. A penalty in the box on Blue, very obvious and unfortunate. The player is insured. This is a blow out game for attacking team and I would not have given PK even though it was an obvious one. This is a hostile environment and I would have spoken to coaches and the player that I would have given it in a close game but to not create more hostility I would have given it. But I awarded it. This was a blowout game with losing team fans already getting out of hand early with no security in site nor athletic directors. A fan I know who has been giving us grief all year decides to engage me loudly for a while. He keeps it up and I tell the coach that If he does not shut the **** up I will forfeit this match. These guys out west are a piece of work to say the least. I end the game. Blue player mocks me repeatedly about my skills as a referee, I show him the red.
After match im outside our referee room, a fan who is the one who has been blasting us asks for a word which turns out to be all his words. He's going on and on about why I am picking on their team and their fans. I finally am able to answer that I do not tolerate any dissent from anyone anywhere. He is not aggressive or close but needless to say in the long run he has decided to tell me I am the worst referee on the planet and his kids know it. I'm ok with the idiot's comment, what I am not ok with is the time he took out of his evening to do this. He tells me he's a teacher and then I inform him that if he's the one teaching all of this disrespect that you are the worst teacher in the universe. After whistle, a blue player gets a red for utterly mocking me in total disrespect in my face.
After match im outside our referee room, a fan who is the one who has been blasting us asks for a word which turns out to be all his words. He's going on and on about why I am picking on their team and their fans. I finally am able to answer that I do not tolerate any dissent from anyone anywhere. He is not aggressive or close but needless to say in the long run he has decided to tell me I am the worst referee on the planet and his kids know it. I'm ok with the idiot's comment, what I am not ok with is the time he took out of his evening to do this. He tells me he's a teacher and then I inform him that if he's the one teaching all of this disrespect that you are the worst teacher in the universe. After whistle, a blue player gets a red for utterly mocking me in total disrespect in my face.