What's the funniest comment you have ever heard a player (any level) make to a referee in the middle of a game? The one that always cracks me up is after a ref gave this woman in my co-ed rec league a yellow card for a bad tackle and she says- "Is that your way of hitting on me?" I was suprised when the ref didn't give her a second.
Funny Comment This was one of the all time funniest things I've ever seen. My coach who was a good coach, but had a very bad temper, coached us through a tournament in which we had the same refs for several games. We never really played well, and the officials missed several offisides calls both ways throughout all the matches. It was the last game of the tourny we we're already eliminated and down 3-0 when the linesman missed another offsides call, when a ball was played through. My coach proceeded to say "Are you f'in kidding me, are you blind? You've been terrible all weekend. This is f'in BS" The linesman had this blank look on his face, like what the hell do i do now? and just started looking at the center official and pointing at my coach as if saying "please save me from this guy" It was the funniest look, you had to see it. The ref then ives him the red and tells him to leave the complex. My coahc says again, "This is BS. You suck!" he says to the ref, then says "You Suck" to the linesman, pauses and take a few steps, then screams across the field to the other linesman, "And You Suck Too!!" Just the moment and timing and everything about this comment made it so hilarious. He paused for just a moment, as if saying, Oh I'm forgetting someone here, then telling the other official what he thought of him. Was this guy an a-hole, hell yeah he was, but he was the funniest and collest coach I ever had
well...i havent really ever heard many funny things......but this year in high school ball I kept harassing the ref for stupid calls and every time they called me off I would delay the game by kicking the ball around when they put it down.... He said..."Number 4, come here, Ive got something in my pocket for you...and if you dont stop ill give it to ya!" so I say "Did you just get done pulling it out of the other coaches ass, because thats how the calls are going"...... pretty funny stuff...i thought......of course, I got a yellow
well, im in u18, and my club coach is college age. last year at a tournament we were getting absolutely screwed by the refs and after many comments by our coach and players, my coach got the best. he yelled 'hey sir! you blow a whistle like this:', and proceeded to show the motion of blowing a whistle. it was hillarious. of course, he got a yellow for it. but strangely enough, after that the ref called a good game...he mightve actually learned something.
well my friend, when we're losing he talks smack to the refs even if he's calling a good game, once i think he said something like "get off your knees, you're blowing the game" and "does your wife know you're screwing us"
"Get off your knees ref, your blowing the game"...thats the best quote, just started using it recently.
""Is that your way of hitting on me?" If I was an official and she was nice. I would have definately made a move on her after the match maybe during the match. I would have thought she was throwing a hint. I did tell the official that the opponent was playing with 12 men on the field once. He counted them and said their was only 11. I said no you made a mistake, and I counted them in front of him. I pointed to him when I got to number 12 Richie
get off your knees your blowing the game is my personal fav as well. Although i dont clash with the refs too much anymore as player (coaching is a diffrent story), a few weeks ago in an indoor game, I was put in the box for 4 fouls in one half, the last foul was a fair call because I mugged the guy, but the 3 other ones against me were BS because they were all against the same guy whos a diver and butt buddies with the ref anyway. So they put me in the box and i am argueing up a storm (i know the refs as well but not to the point where they will give me BS calls on dives, but well enough to get away with some foul language), telling them how much they suck and what bulls*it they are. So while I am in the box the guy thats been diving all game goes in on a 50-50 ball gets the ball tackled away from him falls and screams so of course he gets the call, well right as he going to take the kick i scream from the box to the ref "Hey Dennis he just took you for all your worth again and to be honest thats not a whole F'N lotin the first place" the timing was so good that everyone could hear it and Sal the assistaint ref in the box area started cracking up. After the game the diver tried to start a fight with this guy on my team and the other team cleared the bench which should have been an automatic suspension for them but of course it didnt happen and i blew up on Dennis again saying "If you got your F'N head out of your a s s and had control of this game in the first place this never would have happened". So then he comes of the feild to go to the bathroom between games and tries to stare me down while I am in the stands and i mouthed "F U " to him while noone could see me so i couldnt get kicked out, it was great I felt like I was a young kid again.
One time this ref I know was refing a game after mine and the team that was losing was pissing and moaning all game and this one guy started giving the ref a hard time and the ref said real loud " hey dont be bitter because your losing thats not my problem" in a real nasty tone and it was kinda quiet when he said it so a ton of the people there watching cracked up and teh guy ended up getting red carded a few minutes later anyway
In our Coed league there was a husband and wife that ref'd together. Our stopper (a rather big guy) got called for having a forward run into him and fall down. Of course he was pissed and yelled at the husband that made the call "You're both horrible, but at least she's something to look at!"
This isn't really bad but one time my team was playing in a tournament and after our first game my coach went out and got drunk, so for our second game he was still buzzed. Well the ref really sucked and we got a bad call against us and my coach stands up and says "hey ref" and he gives him the no-no finger and goes "that play was brilliant!" and it was hilarious. but you probably had to see it for yourself to get the full effect
To me trying to humiliate the ref seems like a pathetic thing to do. I wouldn't even come up with something like that, but I guess I'm from a different culture. Maybe it's because I'm a beginner referee myself.
As a rule I don't try to humiliate ref's but you know, in the heat of battle someone's going to say something whether it's right or wrong. Odds are what they say ends up being kind of funny and results in a yellow card.
I'm not a ref (although my dad is) but you're right. It's not only lame but almost invariably counterproductive.
In my rec league, there are few calls by the ref. But the refs do no take any critisism at all. The slightest display of displeasure gets a yellow card. One guy got sent off for just sighing hard after he got a bad call.
The one time I talked smack to a referee, I think I was totally justified (I'm a referee myself, so, while I may complain now and again, it's never personal). I was clipped from behind as I was attacking a clear open space ahead of me with the ball. The foul is called and I was a little angry with having a face full of dirt and an attack stopped. Was it an accident? Probably. More clumsy than intentional. But I made a (polite) remark to the referee that I thought it warranted a card, given the 20 yards of free space, in the attacking half of the field, that I had in front of me. Instantly, he told me that if I said one more word, I'd be the one getting the card. At this point I'm dusting myself off and notice he's got white ankle socks on -- completely non-regulation. This has really gotten my ire. So I turn to him and say, "Great, you lost my respect anyway the minute you walked on the field with those white socks on." He didn't card me.
I haven't talked smack to a referee mainly because, well, I'm a high-level referee I've gotten the good ol' "is that your way of hitting on me?" line a few times by the female players. I usually will pull the red card from my pocket slightly so it's visible and reply "Yeah, wait until you see the marriage proposal!" Probably the funniest encounter with a player I had was with a U19 men's comp game last year in one of the tournaments. I had just got done with a woman's game where one of them pulled the "hitting on" line off a yellow. She had said it loud enough for the fellas warming up on the sidelines to hear and they got a good chuckle from it. One guy yelled out "Hey ref, can I borrow that yellow card after the game??" to the crowd's delight. I yelled back to him "Sure, let me write her phone # on the back of it for ya!" Anyway, sure enough a bad tackle happened in the men's game that warranted a booking. As soon as I pulled the yellow the player gave a huge smile and delivered his new line: "Hey ref, is that your way of hitting on me???"
I got yellow carded for that one on Sunday. I guess he didn't find it nearly as funny as everybody else there who heard it...
Depending on the circumstances I would most likely yellow card a player for all of these comments whether it's funny or not as it does undermine the referee -- a big no-no. Usually I'll say something like, "That's a great wise-crack but lets save the rest of them for after the game, ok?" Both players and referees should understand that there usually isn't anything personal about making calls or booking, it's just keeping the game under control. I don't mind getting a little smack talk -- most of the time it's pretty funny and I do laugh in spite of myself. It also opens the door for a wisecrack of my own back at the player, and boy do I have a ton Still, it's not something that I want to keep hearing throughout the match as there is a game to be played and too much tends to lead to a loss of control. As mentioned previously, it's all about knowing where the line is drawn and when to stop before crossing it. Too much flapping of your gums and you'll eventually land yourself an early ride home!
Used to have a teammate who always had a comment for the ref-- "Hey, ref, if you're gonna screw us, put on a condom." "If you're gonna f*** me over, you could've at least bought me dinner." Funny or not, he usually picked up a card for the comment, and since he was a hack, he often picked up a second and got sent off. In one instance, as he got his yellow for the comment, he walked away singing softly, "Who's your father? Who's your father? Who's your father, referee?" The ref knew what the rest of the words were supposed to be--"Haven't got one, haven't got one, you're a b*st*rd, referee!"--and gave him a second yellow. [For those who haven't heard it, try using the tune "My Darlin' Clementine.] His mouth earned him a sendoff 10 minutes in, and we got run into the ground for 80 minutes after that. His complaint that he shouldn't have received a red for the second comment didn't go over well with our coach. The coach pointed out to the guy that he didn't receive a red, he received a second yellow for the same offense (i.e., mouthing off), and the fact that he repeated the offense so quickly called his judgment into question. He never got off the bench for the rest of the season.