In one of the USL games in my town. The Center didn't have a coin neither did the 40, it was not in the Centers pregame to bring one, so the Center did a phantom flip. As mentioned about the MLS game, no one cared. BTW the crew was being assessed and the assessor saw it and only raised one eyebrow. Who cares.
Someone mentioned that to me as an option, and sure enough, I had a center do that when he arrived to the field 10 minutes before game time because he was racing over from another game. That's NoVa reality. It's not cricket. The coin toss isn't a major factor in the game. Most of the time, I tell a captain he/she won the toss, and the response is, "Uhhhhhhh ... that way? No, this way. No ... um ... that way."
For those times I am coin-less, I usually write an "H" or "T" on the palm of my left hand and keep it closed. Then toss an imaginary coin, get a call...and reveal the palm. What's really weird is when you toss the imaginary coin, and look up, the players look up as well. Funny as...
Of course, if one of those practice cones just happened to end up in your pocket, I don't see why you couldn't just flip that.
I did “one finger or two?”tonight. It was cold and I was hoping the assignor would send me home. No suck luck.
I believe you meant to say you had suck luck. Smart assignors stay home on cold nights, deaf to the complaints of referees. They have to deal with the clubs , which more than makes up for it.
I was going to use my “blind ref” coin tomorrow while I referee my son’s friendlies (they are basically glorified scrimmages at his complex held indoors, and these are my first games since I injured my leg two months ago). Seriously thinking about doing Rock Paper Scissors instead to show my support of McNamara and to protest this stupid suspension.
Civil disobedience? http://www.espn.com/soccer/blog-the...ck-paper-scissors-backed-by-100s-of-officials
Human nature is interesting - wonder if other polls show the same variance? It's definitely not random. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/...the-surprising-psychology-rock-paper-scissors
This particular poll had an image of Ronaldo for rock, Salah for paper, and Messi for scissors, so that may have influenced the results too.
It's clearly a game of strategy when played multiple times, e.g., first to win 5. Much more random for a single occurrence, as there is no opportunity to observe the opponent's strategy and base future moves on trying to read tendencies. there is a surprising amount out there on the game and most effective strategies if you look for it.
Here is the thing that boils my bum. 21 flipping days? Are you kidding me? Are they just coming down hard because it was a women's game and they think it isn't being taken seriously? Here is the real kicker. In the laws it does say that a coin toss must be used to determine who kicks off, but nowhere in the required items for a referee does it state that you must have a coin. I can smell a lawsuit.
Looks like the players didn't seem to mind and the AR has a smile about it: If it wasn't a TV game would anyone even have cared? A wee bit of overreaction by the FA, perhaps?
Those were players that knew exactly what to do and weren't phazed one bit by the request. That was definitely not their first game of Rochambeau to start a match.
This has gotten a lot of play with mainstream sports. Golic and Wingo have mentioned it at least twice. They think it would be great, they’re all for it. I’m going to make a prediction...you’ll see it soon here in the US in an all star game. Football or soccer most likely.
My "no-coin" go-to is to pick a blade of grass, hide it in a fist, and ask a captain to pick which hand. Luckily I've only had to do it once or twice.