I remember that same ref giving me a yellow card for taking to long to retrieve the ball from the next field over to take a throw in. but that is nothing compared to the shite that I witnessed yesterday. It was an entertaining game to say the least.
Sorry about the field Surfer, that's what happens when you use fields for football and soccer, it was all mud last week and they brought in a whole bunch of sand, got rid of the mud, but both teams were playing beach soccer. We missed 3 or 4 glorious chances in the first half that should have been the game, you guys scored a nice header goal to take the lead. Second half we pressed hard for the equaliser but no luck today, your defender saved you the win with a headed clearance off the goal-line in the dying seconds, good match. Now....for the ref...absolute shocker. I know that we have a lot of yappers on our team..but come on. Our defender goes in hard on a tackle (foul) ref calls it, but the guy starts questioning him,,,ref tells him to shut up...keeps talking..three times ref tells him to keep quiet and then pulls a straight red...guy keeps talking and starts leaving...ref shows red again and tells him to get off...and then flashes a yellow????? Guy is on the side-line ref tells him to leave the park..again more yelling at ref from everyone....ref says he's not going to start the game until he leaves and no added time...guys has almost left the park our other defender says "ref are you going to start the game?" ..yellow card (his third of the year and he misses the next game) After the handshake with the other team, one of our guys says don't shake the refs hand, ref calls him over and says "what did you say?" nothing, the guy says,,,, I heard you.. shake my hand!!!! Our guy says no way am I shaking your hand....red card!!!unbelievable.. I was right there and say "ref theres no way you can give him a red for that, he doesn't have to shake your hand" ref says "I didn't give him a red for not shaking my hand, I gave him a red for what he said!!!even more puzzling! So next game we've got our three defenders out for yapping, no dirty tackles, no fights, just questioning the ref! Our report will be in tomorrow, but probably useless as the league has to defend their refs, but now I've got guys wanting to quit and not put up with this BS (sorry this is so long)