Anonymous wrote:Are there any resources for current referees to get better such as clinics, webinars, etc. besides just reading the Laws and recertification training? If a referee wants to bounce some questions off of someone, is there a person who handles questions a young referee may have?

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Anonymous wrote:Many refs seem to be overweight elderly men. Why is this?

Parents chase the good young referees away. Clubs need to support Referees who kick out abusive parents.

Its a tradition as old as time. just as visiting teams get heckled and booed at away games. Referees get it every game. There is no home court advantage ever for referees. Just as players should learn to take and leave on the field so should referees. Never should a player / coach or a parent / fan ever take it to physical everl or verbal beyond the field of play barrage. But the boos are the ying to the cheers yang. Just as we yell great job Johnny or good call ref. We should accept the Number 12 sucks get him off the field and you blow ref. I mean we have gotten to be a treat them with kid gloves society. As long as it doesn't become physical and no threats are made let game go on. Players play, referees ref, and fans be fanatical.

This is a pile of hog manure. The pool of potential refs really starts at 13/14 years old. If you expect your 13 yr old to take verbal assaults from adults and enjoy it, you have a twisted sense of the world. We raise our children to listen to and respect adults; the cognitive dissonance of having some oafish Dad who doesn't even know the Laws of the Game incorrectly shouting instruction is simply beyond.

You, sir, are the very reason that we only have older men reffing. Older men can "take it" and move past. I don't want a 13 year old to have to endure the howlings of a sideline buffoon.

Personally I wouldn't heckle a teenage refereee under any circumstances. However I have no problem with heckling fat old men.

That’s not nice

Anonymous wrote:I still want to know why when a black girl and a white girl collide, the white girl gets the call 90% of the time

Anonymous wrote:I still want to know why when a black girl and a white girl collide, the white girl gets the call 90% of the time

Anonymous wrote:I still want to know why when a black girl and a white girl collide, the white girl gets the call 90% of the time

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Anonymous wrote:I still want to know why when a black girl and a white girl collide, the white girl gets the call 90% of the time

True on the boys side as well and has long been true in English soccer at professional levels

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Anonymous wrote:I still want to know why when a black girl and a white girl collide, the white girl gets the call 90% of the time

If you don't know the answer to this you really haven't been paying attention to over 300 years of American history.

Anonymous wrote:I still want to know why when a black girl and a white girl collide, the white girl gets the call 90% of the time

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Anonymous wrote:I still want to know why when a black girl and a white girl collide, the white girl gets the call 90% of the time

This is interesting

Anonymous wrote:I still want to know why when a black girl and a white girl collide, the white girl gets the call 90% of the time

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Anonymous wrote:I still want to know why when a black girl and a white girl collide, the white girl gets the call 90% of the time

Longtime ref here. I have worried about this problem a lot.

I still think about a Black player who played hard, with a fair shoulder charge, pushing the weaker White player over. I called a “foul” against the Black player. After this happens several times, the Black player calls me a racist and I give her a yellow card for dissent.

Years of soul-searching later, I readily admit she was right that my calls were incorrect. Here’s what I do differently. If a player takes a tumble on a fair shoulder charge, I say “keep playing”, and make the no-call clear. If players are of different races, I’m on higher alert to make my no-calls clear and to be closer to the play and to let both players know that I am right there to make the correct call.

Your question is 100 percent valid. I have unintentionally made incorrect calls that could be interpreted as Racist, to my dismay. I strive to improve.

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Anonymous wrote:I still want to know why when a black girl and a white girl collide, the white girl gets the call 90% of the time

Longtime ref here. I have worried about this problem a lot.

I still think about a Black player who played hard, with a fair shoulder charge, pushing the weaker White player over. I called a “foul” against the Black player. After this happens several times, the Black player calls me a racist and I give her a yellow card for dissent.

Years of soul-searching later, I readily admit she was right that my calls were incorrect. Here’s what I do differently. If a player takes a tumble on a fair shoulder charge, I say “keep playing”, and make the no-call clear. If players are of different races, I’m on higher alert to make my no-calls clear and to be closer to the play and to let both players know that I am right there to make the correct call.

Your question is 100 percent valid. I have unintentionally made incorrect calls that could be interpreted as Racist, to my dismay. I strive to improve.

BS. You're just the troll trying to get things started by pretending to be a ref.