It took a bit of time out of my stimulating Saturday afternoon to kick Part 2 in the head on get it off my computer to the interwebs. Thankfully, it wasn't nearly as much trouble as Part 1 and with any luck I can get silly little Jadon over here this week to record a bit.
Sorry to say, I have painfully little news from the girl's tournament a couple weekends back. I was hoping for a thrill-fest of cards, dissent, broken bones and complete carnage. Instead, it was an extremely laid back tournament (from my seats anyway), I issued a whopping two cautions, one each in two matches, for essentially the exact same foul (reckless contact after the ball had been played away). No protesting from the players (one actually apologized to the girl she had just flattened), no problems from the coaches or parents. Even the PK I called in the first minute of one match was met with nary a word from anyone. At the half, the AR mentioned that the coach of the player who committed the foul, stated he was surprised his player was still on the pitch after the foul. From my point of view, it was a foul and nothing more, but I can certainly see where it may have looked worse from the touchline.
I hope to have something to you in the next couple weeks. There is the boys tourney this coming weekend (as well as the Fair!!!), so there should be something to talk about.
Thanks again for checking out the show.
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Behind the whistle of soccer officials. What they think about the fans, coaches, players and the lunacy which is the Beautiful Game.
3 comments:
Well, boys tend to be more aggressive, so one would expect more bad behavior from them.
oh... I disagree with anonymous. Once you get to U14 and older, the boys may be more aggressive, but the girls are far more vindictive. Many of the times when I card a girl, it is for retaliation.
I'd have to agree with Galaxy to some degree. The older boys tend to go ahead and try to beat up an opponent without being particularly sneaky about it. The older girls, on the other hand, get back at those who they believe have done them wrong as underhandedly as they can.
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