Gotta find the video but there was a fun "quick restart" goal in this one. Nothing controversial except a lesson learned for the Wolfsburg folks,...
THIS ^^^ The concept of "Distant Genius" in this country around soccer is amazing. I do not consider myself a soccer expert by any stretch, but...
I am watching the replay and just now at minute 15. Yeah, one penalty each so far. The ultimate winner on this match? The fan. The...
"Mr Fog A Mirror" brought a chuckle and a memory from a few years ago. Had an assignor at a tournament a few years ago who said, "If you can...
I haven't done an adult game around here in over a year. Best time I've ever had. The guys just rode our asses like Zorro all game long, just a...
They somehow feel they need to compete with USL for "lamest penalty for not following the rules".
As I watch the Gonzalez handling of the PK, restart, etc. I'm surprised again - we are STILL seeing players mob and surround the referee when...
Also wondered about this - Kuipers clearly sold the "safe" signal for no foul, but I felt like this sorta tread into simulation territory:...
Now with the benefit of a couple of days and the chance to watch the full replay, I gotta think this whole crew is suffering from a massive dose...
That AR is just "throw ins only" it seems...
Yeah, I'm watching the replay now and it's pretty sad. In a nutshell, Wynalda said on multiple occasions women should referee more men's games...
so after my fun and creative interpretation of the NFHS rules last week, I had 2 HS boys games last night - JV and V. I asked to Center the...
Afraid not Rufus, not trolling. Honestly the confidence of the AR shook me up and in my head I thought at worst, re-kick - at best, goal. But...
After it was tapped it was kicked, then hit a defender, a forward, then in the goal. So should've been a goal based on what I'm reading above....
had a wild local rivalry game this week, HS games so they were "NFHS almost but not quite FIFA" games. :-) I'm CR for the JV match, had a great...
This sounds like Persistent Infringement to me, good luck. Sadly too many stories like that - we owned two houses for a little while because we...
Exactly! I recall saying to a coach at State Cup finals a few weeks ago, "Coach, you ask that question to 5 referees you'll likely get 9...
Those games are like the sweet 7-iron that you strike on 18 to within 10 feet - those are the kinds of things that can erase a bunch of bad...
I know I put this out there without commenting, kinda did that on purpose to not start with a strawman. I greatly appreciate the range of...
Hey folks, hoping vetshak and others can help me out. The below link has generated a lot of conversation among some of my fellow referees here in...
Best story of my week was attending the State, Presidents and Challenge Cup prep meeting tonight. The dinner was much nicer this year than in the...
Just watched a replay of the France-Italy match and IMO the CR had a masterful match. It was France v Italy so there were still plenty of...
Yeah, I'd be fluent in the red "X" in gotsoccer for those games... In better news, my Valkeen arrived in today's mail. Happy belated birthday...
The other thing is, if you watch towards the end of that sequence, you see the Wolfsburg player leaving the field as her opponent comes over and...
On an unrelated note to the above discussion, just this weekend during the Portand-Seattle and the Houston-Dallas matches, I saw some pretty vocal...