Having eased myself through last week's emergency outing in a Sunday League game and a planned junior game in the afternoon, I stepped out this morning with a little more confidence about my return to match fitness. The unexpected calf injury 6 weeks ago spoilt my early season run outs but today I felt stronger and as a result put in two decent performances.
The first was a bottom division Sunday League game between two teams new to the league. The home team's Secretary used to regularly feature in the County FA's disciplinary list and the away team started their season with having two players sent off in the first round of games of the new season. Despite the warm weather, tempers did not become frayed, players competed fairly and I managed to get around the field pretty well. I found myself keeping close to play or at least in line with it as the game progressed. It was a high scoring affair with the away team squeezing out a 6-4 victory. One caution, lots of handshakes and a smattering of suntan from the bright sunshine throughout the game.
The second was a bottom division (in their age group) junior league game between two teams in the closest city to home. The game was taking place across the park from where I spent my early 20's turning out for the local rugby league team before injury curtailed my career. The coaches were very cordial, the players competitive but fair and the supporters well behaved apart from one or two comments about offside decisions. I set myself a target for the second half of this game to run further and work harder than I had in the first half. I managed it but not by much (around 200m and 25 calories). I still achieved it and with no game next week because of work commitments, I can rest up now until training on Wednesday week. My next games are both on County Cup duty in Huddersfield in 2 weeks - can't wait!
I do have to report that despite doing a full warmdown after each game, I have just had a major attack of cramp in my left hamstring - ouch! I'm ok though, dancing around the conservatory cursing seems as effective at clearing cramp as it did 5 years ago when I used to suffer from it a lot!!!
Showing posts with label Sunday League. Show all posts
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Sunday, 22 September 2013
Sunday, 9 September 2012
How many hats do you wear?
Having completed my reports for this afternoon's game and I sat back in the glow of my slightly reduced sunburn (thanks to you Nivea Factor 30) and considered just how much I'd gotten through in the last 7 days.
Sunday saw me open my 10th season on my local Sunday League. Monday I attended the Respect meeting for referees on a local Junior Football League. Also at the meeting was one of the County's RDOs and he not only talked about the progress made by the league in terms of Respect, but also dangled the tantalising carrot of a new Referee Academy based at one of the County's 3 professional clubs.
It's a similar programme/setup to the one which used to operate at another of the County's professional clubs but was discontinued a couple of years ago. The academy provides a safe environment for the development of players and referees and I wish them every success.
Tuesday I attended a Supply League Assessor's training game. The forms used to report Referee performance are changing for the next marking season and this was an opportunity to practice. There was plenty to note down and the report took a little time to put together.
Wednesday saw me pop on my Sunday League committee head as I needed to complete the registration of the 1,100 or so players who are available to play in our 44 team league. The next two nights saw me sitting up to the wee small hours recording all of the starting line-ups, substitutes (used and unused) and goal scorers for the 31 games which had taken place in the previous 4 days.
On Saturday, I completed the report from Tuesday before heading out to my game at the same venue, but with a different referee. Notes were taken, feedback provided and I headed home for an early night. The early night was necessary as my wife recently purchased her first horse (a life long ambition) and has been up and out at half five every day this week to muck it out and settle it down.
This brings us around to today when I managed to squeeze in a promotion assessment for a referee who is returning to Open Age football after a break managing a local junior football league. The game didn't go to plan, but he did quite well in the circumstances. I finished my week refereeing my first junior football game for a long, long time.
The game passed without major incident and as mentioned above, the sunburn isn't too bad. The only thing is that I've had two spasms of cramp in my left hamstring which hasn't been exactly pleasant ... and that's after a full warm down after today's game!
The week will consist of a few more match reports, the writing up of the assessments from yesterday and today, as well as a trip to South Yorkshire for another Supply League assessment. It WILL be quieter soon but still it will be another week of many hats.
Sunday saw me open my 10th season on my local Sunday League. Monday I attended the Respect meeting for referees on a local Junior Football League. Also at the meeting was one of the County's RDOs and he not only talked about the progress made by the league in terms of Respect, but also dangled the tantalising carrot of a new Referee Academy based at one of the County's 3 professional clubs.
It's a similar programme/setup to the one which used to operate at another of the County's professional clubs but was discontinued a couple of years ago. The academy provides a safe environment for the development of players and referees and I wish them every success.
Tuesday I attended a Supply League Assessor's training game. The forms used to report Referee performance are changing for the next marking season and this was an opportunity to practice. There was plenty to note down and the report took a little time to put together.
Wednesday saw me pop on my Sunday League committee head as I needed to complete the registration of the 1,100 or so players who are available to play in our 44 team league. The next two nights saw me sitting up to the wee small hours recording all of the starting line-ups, substitutes (used and unused) and goal scorers for the 31 games which had taken place in the previous 4 days.
On Saturday, I completed the report from Tuesday before heading out to my game at the same venue, but with a different referee. Notes were taken, feedback provided and I headed home for an early night. The early night was necessary as my wife recently purchased her first horse (a life long ambition) and has been up and out at half five every day this week to muck it out and settle it down.
This brings us around to today when I managed to squeeze in a promotion assessment for a referee who is returning to Open Age football after a break managing a local junior football league. The game didn't go to plan, but he did quite well in the circumstances. I finished my week refereeing my first junior football game for a long, long time.
The game passed without major incident and as mentioned above, the sunburn isn't too bad. The only thing is that I've had two spasms of cramp in my left hamstring which hasn't been exactly pleasant ... and that's after a full warm down after today's game!
The week will consist of a few more match reports, the writing up of the assessments from yesterday and today, as well as a trip to South Yorkshire for another Supply League assessment. It WILL be quieter soon but still it will be another week of many hats.
Sunday, 27 May 2012
Finished until September
When I arrived this morning at the backword game I had been given on Friday, I saw the nets weren't up and the home team, who are usually changed and warming up sometimes as early as 45 minutes before kick off, were standing about in the car park, still in their "day" clothes. When their manager gave me a "cutting the grass" signal, I didn't think he was suggesting anything about my gardening prowess and it was with dismay that I found out my season was finishing, as it had started back in January at the same ground, with a postponement.
I decide not to insist they collected up all their subs and paid me in 10p pieces, but reported the facts to the League Secretary when I got home. Well the truth is that I got halfway through the report when the phone rang. It was one of the senior players for another Premier Division team reporting that their referee hadn't turned up - where is the commitment of these match officials? - could I help?
I jumped back in the car and made my way to their ground and found their opponents were the team who had phoned on Tuesday night when their referee hadn't turned up! We kicked off in bright sunshine with blue skies overhead and the temperature around 23C and I had no sunscreen on my freshly shaved head.
The game went well with only a couple of disputed decisions, but we did have a player suffer an injury to his ankle. He tried to turn and move into space on 19 minutes to receive a pass from a team mate but his ankle cracked and he worried he had broken it. The away team manager was the first on the scene when I summoned help and he spent quite some time tending to the player once he had been removed from the field before the player gingerly moved around to what passed for his team's technical area (not marked out for Sunday League football).
The game finished 5-3 to the away team which allowed them to leapfrog the home team and move into 3rd place. Everyone went home friends and I went home fried! The afternoon was supposed to have been spent watching the League Two Play Off Final, but instead I ran around buying up supplies for my first outdoor cooking session of the close season. Needless to say I'm unlikely to start my pre-season training tomorrow as planned and it seems Wednesday will see me take an easy jog to break myself in gently.
So whatever you are getting up to in the close season and I know WRCFA School of Excellence has two trips planned (Lisboa Cup, Portugal and the Aarhus Cup, Denmark?), I hope your training goes well, those of you who have fitness tests pass them without any problems and we'll do it all again from August onwards.
See my cooking skills in action ...
I decide not to insist they collected up all their subs and paid me in 10p pieces, but reported the facts to the League Secretary when I got home. Well the truth is that I got halfway through the report when the phone rang. It was one of the senior players for another Premier Division team reporting that their referee hadn't turned up - where is the commitment of these match officials? - could I help?
I jumped back in the car and made my way to their ground and found their opponents were the team who had phoned on Tuesday night when their referee hadn't turned up! We kicked off in bright sunshine with blue skies overhead and the temperature around 23C and I had no sunscreen on my freshly shaved head.
The game went well with only a couple of disputed decisions, but we did have a player suffer an injury to his ankle. He tried to turn and move into space on 19 minutes to receive a pass from a team mate but his ankle cracked and he worried he had broken it. The away team manager was the first on the scene when I summoned help and he spent quite some time tending to the player once he had been removed from the field before the player gingerly moved around to what passed for his team's technical area (not marked out for Sunday League football).
The game finished 5-3 to the away team which allowed them to leapfrog the home team and move into 3rd place. Everyone went home friends and I went home fried! The afternoon was supposed to have been spent watching the League Two Play Off Final, but instead I ran around buying up supplies for my first outdoor cooking session of the close season. Needless to say I'm unlikely to start my pre-season training tomorrow as planned and it seems Wednesday will see me take an easy jog to break myself in gently.
So whatever you are getting up to in the close season and I know WRCFA School of Excellence has two trips planned (Lisboa Cup, Portugal and the Aarhus Cup, Denmark?), I hope your training goes well, those of you who have fitness tests pass them without any problems and we'll do it all again from August onwards.
See my cooking skills in action ...
Sunday, 8 April 2012
Another Sunday run out
A tough work out today with two teams packed with players at least 20 years younger than me, both playing the offside trap and both fast on the counter attack. Still enjoyed it though.
The two graphs below show how hard I was working (click for a larger version of the images). I only started my HRM 4 minutes into the 2nd half as I thought I'd started it at kick off but obviously hadn't so I've only captured 44 minutes (3 minutes of added time!). The dip around the 13 minute mark in the 2nd half was when I suspended the game to bring a player in for a chat accompanied by his captain. He'd already been cautioned and had made a couple of careless challenges since then. The captain did my work for me once I'd explained how things were going and it worked a treat. The stepped approach does work!
The two graphs below show how hard I was working (click for a larger version of the images). I only started my HRM 4 minutes into the 2nd half as I thought I'd started it at kick off but obviously hadn't so I've only captured 44 minutes (3 minutes of added time!). The dip around the 13 minute mark in the 2nd half was when I suspended the game to bring a player in for a chat accompanied by his captain. He'd already been cautioned and had made a couple of careless challenges since then. The captain did my work for me once I'd explained how things were going and it worked a treat. The stepped approach does work!
Sunday, 22 January 2012
A game with everything
From time to time, life provides you with a reminder of things you know or knew but had allowed to slip from the forefront of your mind. Sometimes the realisation that you had forgotten them comes as an pleasant surprise, other times the memory stings a little as you realise you had been in denial about those forgotten facts.
Here are some things that I "re-learned" this morning as I made my return to active refereeing in the local Sunday League ...
- Credibility sometimes matters more than the correct decision
- The ability to sell a decision is inexorably linked to your proximity to play
- My eyes are faster than my brain which is in turn faster than my legs
- Sunday League players are fantastic people as are the people who run their clubs
Having covered these points, I will proceed with the match report from my return and I hope you're got the time to spare as it might be a little longer than my usual blog posts.
I arrived earlier than planned to find the club secretary and the players putting up the nets. As far as they were concerned, the field was fit and we were playing. On inspection I agreed with them. It was soft and very damp in some places but good enough for a game. I went to my changing room, got out of my tracksuit and headed out for my warm up. I didn't enjoy it as the wind was strong and the rain was drizzly. It didn't stop me spotting two piles of dog feces and I asked a club official to get them removed.
The team sheets arrived, everyone's name was written up in my notebook and I headed out to play but we had to wait a little while for the dog "deposit" to be removed. We got underway and I didn't have to give a free kick for almost 12 minutes, which was just as well as I was struggling to get my second wind. The field had a substantial slope and the central area was heavy, so I tried to run around rather than through it, meaning I had to run a lot further than I really wanted.
The first big call came on half an hour, just after the home team's opening goal and involved a player I've refereed many times. He made a reckless challenge and became the first player I have cautioned in nearly two years. I was about 5 yards from the incident, he acknowledged I was right and we got underway without much fuss. His team scored their second goal soon afterwards with a lovely piece of play.
The ball was played up the right wing and was flicked nonchalantly overhead by the right back, then again by the right midfielder (wing back?) and the attacker ran towards goal as I shouted to the defender challenging him for the ball not to pull him back. The forward broke free before rounding the goalkeeper and passing the ball into the goal.
The away team struck back almost immediately with a counter attack and then 2 decisions in quick succession changed the complexion of the game as we entered added time at the end of the first half. From my angle I could tell the home player had committed an act of dangerous play with his foot up at shoulder height, but I couldn't see if he made contact with his opponent, so I awarded an indirect free kick. The offending player challenged the decision and I responded by making sure he moved back the required distance before moving into position to observe the drop zone.
As the ball flashed into the penalty area, a home central defender inexplicably stuck out his left arm as the ball was heading towards the goal line for a goal kick and instinctively I awarded a kick from the penalty mark. A goal was scored, we kicked off and I immediately ended the half.
The second half started off quietly but the first of my points above comes into play. The away team pushed up the hill, the attacker tried to go around the goalkeeper who dived to gather the ball and the attacker fell down. The manner in his fall suggested there was no contact and I stopped play before cautioning him for simulation. It was the right decision at the time and playing the incident back in my head, it still feels and looks like the right decision. The problem was that I made it from the halfway line, some 45 yards from the players and that made it the wrong decision and more difficult to sell.
The player took umbrage and upped his effort levels, scoring a good goal just a minute later. He then threw himself (fairly) into a challenge and got injured. According to a team mate after the game, he spent yesterday afternoon in the casualty department of the local hospital with an injury to the same knee, but this looked serious and he had to be carried off the field of play.
This only happened after I had been harangued by his girlfriend when I asked her to move off the field of play. She had wandered 10 yards infield as I adopted a position to allow me to observe his assessment and the remainder of the players. The team manager looked a little embarrassed as he had to usher her off the field. His team scored another goal 4 minutes later to double their lead and the game seemed to be settling into a pattern of long ball football as both teams tried to avoid the centre of the field which was now resembling a quagmire.
On the back of the lack of credibility of my decision to caution for simulation I worked harder at closing down my proximity to play. In the 72nd minute I spotted a reckless challenge near the corner flag when I was only 10 yards away. I also ran towards the players so that as the offender looked for me, I was standing almost on top of him and the player he had illegally challenged. The player was cautioned and then a few minutes later he committed another reckless challenge and was dismissed. His response was to use OFFINABUS language towards me before leaving the field. His team conceded another goal 10 minutes later and we were soon all done.
I did my warm down and felt my cramped muscles easing so much that I was able to run upstairs to my changing room to check I had all my kit. I noticed that the door to the changing room had sustained three holes, low down, as if it had been kicked, since I went out for kick off. I didn't see it happen so can only have my suspicions.
A quick drink in the bar after the game (blackcurrant and soda water) allowed me the time to have a chat with some of the players and club officials. One of the players suggested he was thinking of being a referee and I told him I thought he'd do a good job (no bs as he reads the game well and is very fair). We had a few laughs about playing FIFA12 before I headed home to write up my reports and have a warm bath.
Game done, reports sent and recovery jog planned for tomorrow night.
Here are some things that I "re-learned" this morning as I made my return to active refereeing in the local Sunday League ...
- Credibility sometimes matters more than the correct decision
- The ability to sell a decision is inexorably linked to your proximity to play
- My eyes are faster than my brain which is in turn faster than my legs
- Sunday League players are fantastic people as are the people who run their clubs
Having covered these points, I will proceed with the match report from my return and I hope you're got the time to spare as it might be a little longer than my usual blog posts.
I arrived earlier than planned to find the club secretary and the players putting up the nets. As far as they were concerned, the field was fit and we were playing. On inspection I agreed with them. It was soft and very damp in some places but good enough for a game. I went to my changing room, got out of my tracksuit and headed out for my warm up. I didn't enjoy it as the wind was strong and the rain was drizzly. It didn't stop me spotting two piles of dog feces and I asked a club official to get them removed.
The team sheets arrived, everyone's name was written up in my notebook and I headed out to play but we had to wait a little while for the dog "deposit" to be removed. We got underway and I didn't have to give a free kick for almost 12 minutes, which was just as well as I was struggling to get my second wind. The field had a substantial slope and the central area was heavy, so I tried to run around rather than through it, meaning I had to run a lot further than I really wanted.
The first big call came on half an hour, just after the home team's opening goal and involved a player I've refereed many times. He made a reckless challenge and became the first player I have cautioned in nearly two years. I was about 5 yards from the incident, he acknowledged I was right and we got underway without much fuss. His team scored their second goal soon afterwards with a lovely piece of play.
The ball was played up the right wing and was flicked nonchalantly overhead by the right back, then again by the right midfielder (wing back?) and the attacker ran towards goal as I shouted to the defender challenging him for the ball not to pull him back. The forward broke free before rounding the goalkeeper and passing the ball into the goal.
The away team struck back almost immediately with a counter attack and then 2 decisions in quick succession changed the complexion of the game as we entered added time at the end of the first half. From my angle I could tell the home player had committed an act of dangerous play with his foot up at shoulder height, but I couldn't see if he made contact with his opponent, so I awarded an indirect free kick. The offending player challenged the decision and I responded by making sure he moved back the required distance before moving into position to observe the drop zone.
As the ball flashed into the penalty area, a home central defender inexplicably stuck out his left arm as the ball was heading towards the goal line for a goal kick and instinctively I awarded a kick from the penalty mark. A goal was scored, we kicked off and I immediately ended the half.
The second half started off quietly but the first of my points above comes into play. The away team pushed up the hill, the attacker tried to go around the goalkeeper who dived to gather the ball and the attacker fell down. The manner in his fall suggested there was no contact and I stopped play before cautioning him for simulation. It was the right decision at the time and playing the incident back in my head, it still feels and looks like the right decision. The problem was that I made it from the halfway line, some 45 yards from the players and that made it the wrong decision and more difficult to sell.
The player took umbrage and upped his effort levels, scoring a good goal just a minute later. He then threw himself (fairly) into a challenge and got injured. According to a team mate after the game, he spent yesterday afternoon in the casualty department of the local hospital with an injury to the same knee, but this looked serious and he had to be carried off the field of play.
This only happened after I had been harangued by his girlfriend when I asked her to move off the field of play. She had wandered 10 yards infield as I adopted a position to allow me to observe his assessment and the remainder of the players. The team manager looked a little embarrassed as he had to usher her off the field. His team scored another goal 4 minutes later to double their lead and the game seemed to be settling into a pattern of long ball football as both teams tried to avoid the centre of the field which was now resembling a quagmire.
On the back of the lack of credibility of my decision to caution for simulation I worked harder at closing down my proximity to play. In the 72nd minute I spotted a reckless challenge near the corner flag when I was only 10 yards away. I also ran towards the players so that as the offender looked for me, I was standing almost on top of him and the player he had illegally challenged. The player was cautioned and then a few minutes later he committed another reckless challenge and was dismissed. His response was to use OFFINABUS language towards me before leaving the field. His team conceded another goal 10 minutes later and we were soon all done.
I did my warm down and felt my cramped muscles easing so much that I was able to run upstairs to my changing room to check I had all my kit. I noticed that the door to the changing room had sustained three holes, low down, as if it had been kicked, since I went out for kick off. I didn't see it happen so can only have my suspicions.
A quick drink in the bar after the game (blackcurrant and soda water) allowed me the time to have a chat with some of the players and club officials. One of the players suggested he was thinking of being a referee and I told him I thought he'd do a good job (no bs as he reads the game well and is very fair). We had a few laughs about playing FIFA12 before I headed home to write up my reports and have a warm bath.
Game done, reports sent and recovery jog planned for tomorrow night.
Sunday, 4 September 2011
Assorted things
Back in May, I was Course Leader on Basic Course for New Referees and the local ITV news programme (Calendar) wanted to film the course for part of a short series of specials on refereeing in grassroots football. I was interviewed for part of the programme and the interview was broadcast on Thursday. The clip can be seen here. Thanks to Umar for finding the clip.
On Friday I was advised that my application for the role of Moderator on the Referee's Association Discussion Board (Forum) had been accepted, so that's something new to look after.
Also on Friday I was notified of a late addition to our lowest division in the local Sunday League. As Fixture Secretary, I had to revise the division's fixtures for the season. This came on the back of registering almost 1200 players, including 900 retained, 100 transfers and 200 new players from Thursday through to Saturday evening.
Yesterday, I took a long trip south to do my last assessment for the next 3 weeks. The last time I went to this ground I arrived 5 minutes before kick off. I had been at another ground but another assessor turned up, so I contacted the co-ordinator and shot off south by another 35 miles. Yesterday's 98 mile round trip was much more sedate and it was a decent game to watch as well.
The last action was updating all of the Team Administrators who receive SMS messages so they can report in their scores, after registering all the suspensions carried over from last season. It seems this season has got off to an interesting start with at least 3 dismissals and one abandonment in the 24 games played this morning ... welcome back Sunday football!
Now football is shutting down for three weeks as I go on holiday and attend my daughter's wedding on Rhodes. See you all later!!!
On Friday I was advised that my application for the role of Moderator on the Referee's Association Discussion Board (Forum) had been accepted, so that's something new to look after.
Also on Friday I was notified of a late addition to our lowest division in the local Sunday League. As Fixture Secretary, I had to revise the division's fixtures for the season. This came on the back of registering almost 1200 players, including 900 retained, 100 transfers and 200 new players from Thursday through to Saturday evening.
Yesterday, I took a long trip south to do my last assessment for the next 3 weeks. The last time I went to this ground I arrived 5 minutes before kick off. I had been at another ground but another assessor turned up, so I contacted the co-ordinator and shot off south by another 35 miles. Yesterday's 98 mile round trip was much more sedate and it was a decent game to watch as well.
The last action was updating all of the Team Administrators who receive SMS messages so they can report in their scores, after registering all the suspensions carried over from last season. It seems this season has got off to an interesting start with at least 3 dismissals and one abandonment in the 24 games played this morning ... welcome back Sunday football!
Now football is shutting down for three weeks as I go on holiday and attend my daughter's wedding on Rhodes. See you all later!!!
Tuesday, 23 August 2011
Pay attention!
It seems that my retirement from refereeing has gone unnoticed in one corner of the world as I got a phone call tonight asking me to referee a pre-season game for a local side. I retired in December 2009!
The Secretary of the club was talking to me only a few weeks ago about how it was to be retired from the green stuff, as he is just about done with playing. His phone call came in near the start of the first Sunday League meeting of the new season. He should have been at the meeting so I politely declined his request and suggested he put in an appearance - he did and it saved him £20!
Preparations for the new season have gone reasonably well with the fixtures prepared through to the end of the season. Last night saw me make a brief appearance as a guest speaker at the local Referee's Association presenting the law changes for the forthcoming season. Nice to get back in the swing!
I'm now off duty for a weekend before getting in a couple of assessments before a longer break for my daughter's wedding in Rhodes on September 16. Can't wait!
The Secretary of the club was talking to me only a few weeks ago about how it was to be retired from the green stuff, as he is just about done with playing. His phone call came in near the start of the first Sunday League meeting of the new season. He should have been at the meeting so I politely declined his request and suggested he put in an appearance - he did and it saved him £20!
Preparations for the new season have gone reasonably well with the fixtures prepared through to the end of the season. Last night saw me make a brief appearance as a guest speaker at the local Referee's Association presenting the law changes for the forthcoming season. Nice to get back in the swing!
I'm now off duty for a weekend before getting in a couple of assessments before a longer break for my daughter's wedding in Rhodes on September 16. Can't wait!
Sunday, 5 September 2010
Well that went well ...
As the Sunday League season opened this morning I thought I'd take a trip out to ensure that all the games had taken place.
With something like 23-24 games scheduled, I would have thought it unusual if something hadn't gone wrong. Fortunately it was restricted to one team who hadn't checked their fixture list and turned up at their new ground, instead of the ground I assigned to their game. The situation was resolved quickly and the game took place.
Meanwhile I made my way to James' game where I ran the line for him for about 10 minutes which was good fun apart from the trip that saw me sprawling along the touchline and getting grass stains on the knees of my jeans.
On arriving back home, the first of the online match reports were coming in and I updated the stats provided to show appearances, substitutes and goal scorers. I then fielded a few calls about how to complete the form before completing my assessments from yesterday.
It was a competent display from all three officials in a quietish game and I hope they find my reports useful. The last piece of football related work for the weekend was to confirm my availability for assessing during October. I already have another 8 lined up for September. I'm as busy as I was when I was actually refereeing!
With something like 23-24 games scheduled, I would have thought it unusual if something hadn't gone wrong. Fortunately it was restricted to one team who hadn't checked their fixture list and turned up at their new ground, instead of the ground I assigned to their game. The situation was resolved quickly and the game took place.
Meanwhile I made my way to James' game where I ran the line for him for about 10 minutes which was good fun apart from the trip that saw me sprawling along the touchline and getting grass stains on the knees of my jeans.
On arriving back home, the first of the online match reports were coming in and I updated the stats provided to show appearances, substitutes and goal scorers. I then fielded a few calls about how to complete the form before completing my assessments from yesterday.
It was a competent display from all three officials in a quietish game and I hope they find my reports useful. The last piece of football related work for the weekend was to confirm my availability for assessing during October. I already have another 8 lined up for September. I'm as busy as I was when I was actually refereeing!
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