A high school tournament? During the summer?

It's true I say. One of the local high school invites several schools from around northwest Washington for a three day, three game guarantee warm-up for the fall season. And lucky me, I am just unemployed enough to get the call to do several matches.

I am going to save the juicy story for the podcast (I am sure to do it more justice there as opposed to here), but suffice to say beyond the Championship match I centered, there was VERY little to report back to y'all. All of the pool play matches were single officials, so there was the occasional offside yelp from a defender or two. However, the two PK's I called this weekend were met with absolutely NO objections from the defensive teams, coaches or parents. I'd actually thought I'd died and gone to referee heaven. Until, that is, the final match. Then the world came quickly back into focus and my illusions of a stretch of four games without idiocy and more idiocy were shattered.

I spoke to Jadon yesterday evening and he is in his last week of school so no podcast until the third week of July it seems. Blame Jadon.

Thanks again,

Jonathon