Recent Content by mathguy ref

I spent 3 seasons umpiring little league baseball and softball. Standing behind a 12 year old catcher who can’t catch and getting plunked...

Interesting. I believe in Texas you can only play 4 years of a varsity sport.

We have one crusty old ref who periodically wears an old yellow on solo adult matches. He ramps up the look by not tucking it in. Every other ref...

Its been announced that PSG v Dortmund will be played behind closed doors.

Early in the season I was AR 1 on a VB match. Solid well played game, 0-1 with 40 seconds to go and there is a foul against the away team outside...

when I was growing up, ties in pointy ball football were broken by offensive penetrations.

I don’t get all the angst over the differences between IFAB and NFHS. It’s still soccer and each has their own specific set of rules of...

I assigned solos where I could but I still had refs with 10-12 games over a 2 day period.

I bet I see it once a year if not once a season in tournaments. I stop it when I can and chew nitwits out afterwards when I can’t. Sometimes it’s...

I cannot tell you how many times I have watched 2 jokers in a yellow shirt without a badge do a dual on a USSF sanctioned match. But it will...

The unintended consequence here is the IFAB change all but forced referees to stay the heck out of the Penalty Area for fear of getting nicked by...

Work people to death. That’s what I had to do in January for a tourney I assigned. I needed 60+ refs for 125 games. I had 40 something.

I always read that to mean we don’t want you touching the post so that you don’t move it. Or grab the crossbar and hang and bend it. What you...

What you can see on the video that I think no one would process in real time is how long it took him to reenter the field of play. He was back at...

Edit: I’ll take it back. Ederson got it first