Ref week 10-31
MONDAY NIGHT NEEDS COVERAGE.
We also have mini field wed and Thursday night as well as Sunday late.
I will share an experience for those who have not had the joy of a player being physical with the referee.
In short, I gave a guy a blue card for dissent, he was in goal and thought I had missed 2 calls in his favor. He had just given up a goal where he felt he was kicked.
He came rapidly out of the goal at me taking his gloves off. I had the blue held up at him and he slapped my arm down knocking the card out of my hands.
I immediately pulled the red and told him to get off the ##%^ field.
He turned back to me throwing his goalie gloves in my face and then made more body contact with me.
I wasn't very happy as I "walked him" towards the bench explaining the finer things in life...well, maybe I cursed him out all the way to the bench, small detail, then I called the game. There were about 4 minutes left and my adrenaline was in full force so I figured it was best to not finish that one in case anyone else wanted to be tough.
So point of the story is this, while I didn't punch the player as I truly thought I was going to have to, think about how you would handle yourself in the same situation, what would you have done? How could you keep your cool better than I did.
