So it was last night when I went to watch the Fat Lad in action in the FA Youth Cup. Perry Mason was on one line for him and Persevering Pete was on the other. All three officials had a good game which finished 1-0 to the away team. They had to deal with a few tricky situations and did well overall.
I was asked in at half time and gave Fat Lad a couple for development points, two challenges which should really have been cautions and his indirect free kick signal was off the vertical. His motivational points were his fitness/movement and also his overall match control. I had some points for both Assistants as well and all three worked very hard when the game went up a level in the second half.
Perry Mason stepped in to help with a situation which could have resulted in a mass confrontation and Pete managed the technical areas very well. So a local team is out of the competition which reduces my chances of being involved in the next round. Same thing happened last year when some local favourites who were scheduled to have a home game in the next round, lost a supposedly easy tie, but that's football for you!
Speaking of which, it was great to see the England National team click against Croatia, a team who have proved something of a bogey team over the last few years and beat them 4-1 in Zagreb, where they have never lost a competitive game. The game showed that Arsene Wenger knows a thing or two about football as Theo Walcott, the teenager from Arsenal, scored an International hat trick. Well done kid!
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