I only had six squares on my u15 solo on Sunday. My condolences to you. "you ruined the game" should be one of the squares.
If there were squares for some these, i might have had a cover-all... - But we played the ball! - They didn't play the ball! - Handball!!! - That's a card! - They're delaying! - You called us for the same thing! - That's terr-ah-bull. - How can you not call that?!? (while I'm waiting for possible advantage just above the PA) AR's mics seemed to be picking up more chatter than usual...
NFHS game. But, I will neither confirm nor deny whether any of us HS refs have also worn them on our ussf 11v11 matches... (Players thought us three "old guys" we were cool for having them, so there is that...)
Varsity Girls. I'm AR1. Home player turns to me before taking a corner: "I'm putting this in the net." She did. Her team won 2-1 on that and a more traditional goal from a corner.
One of my colleagues told me that he was doing a youth game. One of the parents was wearing a black hat that make him look like a pirate. ???? The guy was yelling dissent and insults pretty steadily, until my friend had enough. (And, TBH, he usually tolerates this stuff for too long, IMHO.) He finally turned to the guy and said "Hey, Captain Crunch. You need to be quiet." The other parents from his kid's team applauded.
Wow. I reviewed a game report today that just left me shaking my head. The referee reported that, as they were leaving the stadium, two "younger" players from the losing team approached them. The players asked if they had been paid off by the other team. The referee said that he would need their numbers. "Why?" "Because I'll need them in order to report the red cards you will receive." The girls ran away quickly. He got the impression that they had been put up to 'asking' by other players on their team. !!!
I love those ones, especially when it occurs in front of the bench so I can explain to the coach as I'm recording it why, pointing to all the open space in front of the fouled player in their attacking half that is still there.
Or we could certify as AYSO Regionals and just say I am a regional! Never mind which association... So, a story from me. BV, last game of the season for the losing team, whose record includes a big fat "0" in the "wins" column. I have done this team before, when they lost 8-0, each one of the goals was our fault and they should have had a penalty... anyway.. not the most enjoyable game. The problem comes in with the clock. The team is playing on the grass field. No scoreboard. My partner instructs them that we need a timekeeper, even if we do not have a clock, as that is a PIAA adoption that we are NOT allowed to keep time on the field at all. So, we have a couple of high school kids in the booth who are keeping score and they go ahead and keep the clock, not really doing it very properly. They start counting down from 10 very loudly when both my partner and I have a minute left! We stop the clock, we confer, while the coach starts yelling "the half is over! It's over there is no time left!." My partner goes over and asks to "put 55 seconds on the clock" and calmly explains that there is an error and we need to fix the clock. An unnecessary argument starts, where both coaches start yelling at us that "why do you want to have official time off the field if you're going to ignore it anyway?" and it just starts getting tense and stupid. Ultimately, after about 4 minutes of issues we are getting ready to start with 55 seconds left on the clock. I walk over and then the parents start yelling "ALL THAT FOR LESS THAN A MINUTE?" and other crap. Yeah, not the most pleasant of games to deal with, and all for no good reason either. @Pittsburgh Ref - do you know of the PIAA adoption in question? Unfortunately, there is no "PIAA adoptions" document and they only go as far as 2017 in the bulletins, so I cannot find this specific one. It has been preached to us at chapter meetings that we are not allowed to keep time on the field under any circumstances and must have a person from the host school do it. I know NFHS rulebook says otherwise, but I wonder if you might know of/heard about/be in possession of a particular document stating that.
Hmm. http://www.piaa.org/sports/soccer/default.aspx I see lotsa weird but nothing about *not* keeping time on the field. We do this not infrequently, fields not in stadiums, etc.
Yesterday modified school match. Losing team is lining up to take a corner in 1-0 match. Watch hits 0:00, partner blows his whistle. Losing coach "Why didn't you let us take the kick?"
U10 rec boys, dual. Navy 11 stays in an offside position in the first half, yelling "pass it to me, pass it to ME!!" 15 minutes in, he grumbles to me "There is no one between me and the keeper. Why won't they pass it to me?" "Because you are offside." "Oh, THAT's what that means." He stayed onside the second half, they passed him the ball, he dribbled around a defender and scored three goals.
JV girls yesterday. (Amazing site, in that JV has its own turf field, no gridiron football goal posts and even 'team area' lines, all sewn in, not painted.) At half time, the home team is up, 4-0. Remember that our mercy rule is that the game ends at a goal differential of eight. The second half starters are huddling on the field, away from the coach and subs. One girl is heard to say, "I don't care what she says. I want to go home." The eighth goal was scored 12 minutes later. Tallest team I can remember ever seeing in high school. Not a single girl under 5'7" and two or three of them approaching 6'0.
HSGV dual, sun in eyes: called offside where a home team player came back from an offside position. Home team parent from probably 80 yards away in the bleachers yelled "he can't even see it with the sun in his eyes, PUT A CAP ON REF!!!" That's a new one for me...
I’ve heard of this happening before, but it has never happened in a game that I’ve been at before. D3 college men’s game where I am AR1, visitors are leading 1-0 with less than 5 minutes left. Home team takes a shot on goal where the visiting goalkeeper has to dive to make a save. One home player yells, “Six seconds, ref!” He then starts count loudly almost as soon as the goalkeeper touched the ball. His counting is also way quicker than a second per number, “Onetwothreefourfivesixseven…”. In my head, I got to about four after giving the goalkeeper a second to get up.
I've never actually cautioned anybody for it, but more than once I've done a "Did you know that doing that is good for a yellow card for dissent?" "Uh, no, really?" "Yes." "Oh, OK, sorry."
Working some U11-U12 girls matches today around watching my son’s games. I call a deflection awarding the ball to White. A Blue parent holds his arm out the other way for about 15 seconds. I finally say loudly enough for the sideline to hear, “You can put your arm down, sir. I have the call.” Chuckles from White’s parents. Parent puts his arm down and walks off.
It's in the preseason bulletin on page 11, in the "ADDITIONAL ADOPTIONS OR MODIFICATIONS" section. You know, since having only one adoptions or modifications section is insufficient