The second day of the Basic Course for Referees passed relatively quietly and we had 26 new trainees (level 9) at the end of the course. I made my way home and was then swamped with presents and cards for my birthday, with a couple of my older children calling in to see me.
Monday night saw me working away on my reports from Saturday's game as well as celebrating my 6th wedding anniversary. The reports were relatively easy to write and it was a reasonably early night.
Tuesday was d-day for the committee of my local Sunday League. We've been using The FA's Full Time service to record fixtures, results and suspensions for 2 seasons now and we wanted to make more use of the other services. This includes recording match facts such as appearances and goals scored as well as the comprehensive fixtures scheduling service.
With all the known constraints, such as fields being used for cricket, loaded in, I ran the fixtures and showed them to the committee. They liked the system and decided to run with it on a permanent basis. So my role as Match Day Administrator has been expanded to include the management of fixtures. It's not too daunting and I've made some good progress already.
Wednesday saw me travel to the Horsfall Stadium to watch a fellow member of my local RA in action. It was an interesting game and the report took me some time to complete on Thursday as I sought out some strengths and development areas.
That brought me through to Friday where I decided to put my feet up, have a long cool drink and prepare myself for my assessing on Saturday. The whole crew are from my local RA and the referee is the person for whom I carried out my first Supply League assessment back in January. I'm looking forward to seeing how much progress he has made. It will be good to catch up with James P and Chris H as well.
I'm closing by wishing Andy Madley well. He's doing his first Premier League game today at The Emirates for the game between Arsenal and Blackpool. It's funny to think I was running the line for him just 16 months ago at the District FA Sunday Cup Final. Good luck matey!
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Saturday, 21 August 2010
Saturday, 14 August 2010
Busy week
Sunday - instructing on a Basic Course for New Referees. Gavin and Umar on their first courses and me as Course Leader could have been a recipe for disaster but we worked through all of our sessions and finished within 30 seconds of our planned end of day - good job by all!
Monday - back to the County FA HQ for the inaugural RA/FA Development Evening. We had 4 good sessions ranging from James Doyle on Disability in Football, to Andy Madley on Offsides, Ken Haycock on Recognising Challenges and finishing with Bobby Madley talking about his career from refereeing on the Wakefield League to his current level refereeing on the Football League. He did his first Football League middle last Saturday at Bury vs Port Vale. All were very good and it was a late one by the time the post talk chatter had died away.
Tuesday - back out with my notepad and pen assessing another referee in the Northern Counties East League. This time it was a game in the President's Cup. The home team lost 3-1 despite going ahead in the 13th minute and the referee only issued one caution. I had a few points for all three officials and again it was another late night getting home.
One of the worst aspects of being an assessor is the mental gymnastics you go through after a game when you have delivered the de-brief but not yet written the report. You try to unwind but until the report is written and sent, you can't let the game go. It didn't help that I was feeling run down, a fact borne out by the appearance of not one, but three cold sores on my lip.
This left me unable/unwilling to go out training on Thursday having typed up the referee and assistant reports on Wednesday night. This came on top of the final (hopefully) resolution of a work issue, with a virus/worm disrupting the work at one of the sites I support for the last 4 months. In addition, my young son has not been well and exhibiting signs of anxiety, probably from being out of his usual routine and also my father in law suffering a detached retina last weekend. THIS HAS BEEN A TOUGH WEEK!!!
So it was a pleasure to go watch an experienced official today together with young Henry Naylor making his debut on the North East Counties. I took Fat Lad along as my guest. It was a challenging game with the home team running out 2-1 winners. To the amusement of all the players, a wayward shot managed to find me standing at the perimeter fence. I couldn't get out of the way without looking undignified, so I stuck out an elbow and watched the fierce shot ricochet off. The referee was in stitches and even went as far as congratulating the player who took the shot.
Fat Lad and I were helpless with laughter and it typified the day as we really enjoyed the game and the performance of the referee. Tomorrow sees me celebrate my 47th birthday and lead the 2nd half of the new referees course mentioned at the top of this post. I'm looking forward to it!
Monday - back to the County FA HQ for the inaugural RA/FA Development Evening. We had 4 good sessions ranging from James Doyle on Disability in Football, to Andy Madley on Offsides, Ken Haycock on Recognising Challenges and finishing with Bobby Madley talking about his career from refereeing on the Wakefield League to his current level refereeing on the Football League. He did his first Football League middle last Saturday at Bury vs Port Vale. All were very good and it was a late one by the time the post talk chatter had died away.
Tuesday - back out with my notepad and pen assessing another referee in the Northern Counties East League. This time it was a game in the President's Cup. The home team lost 3-1 despite going ahead in the 13th minute and the referee only issued one caution. I had a few points for all three officials and again it was another late night getting home.
One of the worst aspects of being an assessor is the mental gymnastics you go through after a game when you have delivered the de-brief but not yet written the report. You try to unwind but until the report is written and sent, you can't let the game go. It didn't help that I was feeling run down, a fact borne out by the appearance of not one, but three cold sores on my lip.
This left me unable/unwilling to go out training on Thursday having typed up the referee and assistant reports on Wednesday night. This came on top of the final (hopefully) resolution of a work issue, with a virus/worm disrupting the work at one of the sites I support for the last 4 months. In addition, my young son has not been well and exhibiting signs of anxiety, probably from being out of his usual routine and also my father in law suffering a detached retina last weekend. THIS HAS BEEN A TOUGH WEEK!!!
So it was a pleasure to go watch an experienced official today together with young Henry Naylor making his debut on the North East Counties. I took Fat Lad along as my guest. It was a challenging game with the home team running out 2-1 winners. To the amusement of all the players, a wayward shot managed to find me standing at the perimeter fence. I couldn't get out of the way without looking undignified, so I stuck out an elbow and watched the fierce shot ricochet off. The referee was in stitches and even went as far as congratulating the player who took the shot.
Fat Lad and I were helpless with laughter and it typified the day as we really enjoyed the game and the performance of the referee. Tomorrow sees me celebrate my 47th birthday and lead the 2nd half of the new referees course mentioned at the top of this post. I'm looking forward to it!
Saturday, 24 July 2010
Training 3.5
I had to nip into work this morning and having persuaded my wife that she should finish work early, I took advantage of her early arrival home to get out for another training session.
I had a phone call yesterday from Andy who said my training session graphs looked great except I was working too hard in my warm up and cool down. I therefore made a determined effort not to let my heart rate get above 75% and stay there while warming up. It certainly seemed to work as I felt ok as I started the main exercise.
Today's torture was the one I call the "envelope". I started at the left hand side of one goal line, ran to the centre mark, then back to the right hand side of the same goal line. On arrival I did 5 sit ups before running back to the centre mark and then on to the other end of the touchline from where I did the sit ups.
On arrival I did 5 press up before running back to the centre mark and then back to the other end of the goal line on which I did the press ups. Here I did 5 star jumps before running back to the centre mark and on to my start point where I did 5 squats.
This took 3 minutes and a couple of seconds to complete so I took a 1m30s rest before doing another circuit and then repeated it again after another rest. My first intention was to do 4 circuits, rest for 5 minutes, then do another 4 circuits. I decided to rest after 3 circuits, do another 3 circuits, then rest again before a final set of 3 circuits.
I wasn't prepared for the sharp pain in my ankle as I started circuit 8 and it wouldn't go away, so I decided to call it a day which is which the graph below ends suddenly. I was also being constantly berated by my five year old son who wanted me to come and play football. I couldn't manage to run so I went in goals!
The pain gradually subsided over the next 25 minutes as he played a combination of football rugby and Gaelic football. It finished with him repeatedly rugby tackling me and knocking me to the ground after I had tackled his mum to the ground. I can think of worse ways to end a training session :-)
Calories 647, average heart rate 145 bpm. Clicking the image below shows the pattern of my heart rate across the exercise period.
I had a phone call yesterday from Andy who said my training session graphs looked great except I was working too hard in my warm up and cool down. I therefore made a determined effort not to let my heart rate get above 75% and stay there while warming up. It certainly seemed to work as I felt ok as I started the main exercise.
Today's torture was the one I call the "envelope". I started at the left hand side of one goal line, ran to the centre mark, then back to the right hand side of the same goal line. On arrival I did 5 sit ups before running back to the centre mark and then on to the other end of the touchline from where I did the sit ups.
On arrival I did 5 press up before running back to the centre mark and then back to the other end of the goal line on which I did the press ups. Here I did 5 star jumps before running back to the centre mark and on to my start point where I did 5 squats.
This took 3 minutes and a couple of seconds to complete so I took a 1m30s rest before doing another circuit and then repeated it again after another rest. My first intention was to do 4 circuits, rest for 5 minutes, then do another 4 circuits. I decided to rest after 3 circuits, do another 3 circuits, then rest again before a final set of 3 circuits.
I wasn't prepared for the sharp pain in my ankle as I started circuit 8 and it wouldn't go away, so I decided to call it a day which is which the graph below ends suddenly. I was also being constantly berated by my five year old son who wanted me to come and play football. I couldn't manage to run so I went in goals!
The pain gradually subsided over the next 25 minutes as he played a combination of football rugby and Gaelic football. It finished with him repeatedly rugby tackling me and knocking me to the ground after I had tackled his mum to the ground. I can think of worse ways to end a training session :-)
Calories 647, average heart rate 145 bpm. Clicking the image below shows the pattern of my heart rate across the exercise period.
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