I'm here to report that confession on BS is good for the referee's soul. This afternoon I had the whistle for another of these end-of-season...
My night was great. My afternoon, not so much. U19 B D2. Honestly, it's just D2 in this league. But the league's D1 isn't all the great...
Just got home from watching Quis and his white badge be AR2 right in front of me all night. Beautiful evening, overlooking the port in St. Pete....
Pupils? That's the body part you thought of??? Maybe you're right. It was only a caution.
Short answer: no But I do I recall watching Abby Wambach (I think) forcing a PIADM whistle out of a referee inside the 6. Defender (field...
Doc, I think my disease is advancing. Last week, I am the CR. After the coin-toss, I dutifully put a little arrow in my book. Blue is kicking...
I work for 2 HS associations. One never does "reviews". Ever. The other does them by surprise, at least once a year. The results are the most...
By the time we get to HS QF around here, there is a local TV crew at every game. Any chance their website gives you a second look?
Yeah. I know. Party pooper.
Precisely.
Variation on the legend: One girls team in all White, one in all Blue. All male ref crew. Then the rain. A simultaneous-touch situation leads to a...
I'm going on the assumption that someone brought up that you KNEW what was going on. So, I was thinking something like: 1) I blow for the kick 2)...
I think I could work my way to DR if I really wanted to.
Holy CR@P!
Good Lord, Sir! Are you implying that I consider whether or not a player has already been cautioned when deciding if an offense is cautionable?...
Axiom for controlling temperature in U-little: "The younger the players, the more the temperature is controlled by the sidelines." Especially...
Well, even though I disagree with the red, I still "get it" :p It seems to me the questions are: 1) How much of a flash-point is this? If the...
Yes. And anticipate as best you can. But, ultimately, I agree there (can be) is a conflict. At a state cup tourney a few years back, the leader...
Last night on Fox Soccer, I caught a minute of a conversation from Thomas Rongen(?). He was of the opinion that players dive LESS now than when...
1) Be sure you don't step on any of them (I'm only partly joking) 2) Be the smartest and hardest working "soccer" person at the field that day...
100% yellow for me. No violence, no risk of injury. Just a tactical choice. As for the big "spirit of the game" arguements, I think it is salt...
I have stopped play for outside interference from a trio of 5 ft. tall Sand Hill Cranes. Even after I showed them red cards (fans liked that)...
No one can give you a number. There are examples of high level referees making the call at midfield. There are also counter examples. For sure,...
A few years ago I was watching my son's team play. U13 rec, I think. Some of the players were ex-travel team kids, but there were enough...
Yep. Did the ref have to get that through his ear? Maybe he looked away at the crucial instant??? I don't see a foul. Maybe at full speed it...