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[quote=Anonymous]One thing to consider is the shortage of referees and all games being played without full crews. When a game doesn't have a full crew, the center referee usually asks if a parent can help call balls out of bounds. These "parent ARs" are not allowed to call offside or fouls, which adds alot more area to cover for the center referee. Imagine, the center referee now has to TRY to get better angles for offside on BOTH sides of the field. To do this, the center has to take his eye off the ball quite a bit. Basically keeping his/her head on a swivel. Same with fouls, often a center has an AR to help call fouls in the corners. Not, without a full crew. So centers can miss alot more without full crews because of how much extra ground they need to cover and more things to watch for. With that said, I feel bad for missing any calls last weekend because of this. There was one game in particular where the team and coaches were very upset over a call I had to make from 50 yards away because I got got deep on one side of the field and got behind the counter attack. I called what I thought I saw. I did my best. And just for an idea of field coverage, I centered one U14 game and two U13 games last Sunday, back to back to back with only parent ARs for all three...with about 15 minutes in between to get ready for the next game which is only enough times for check in, find parent ARs, do captains, and maybe get a sip of water. I got 29,000 steps from those 3 matches. I'm not a runner either. I'm just an average 50 year old who refs because his kid likes to ref/make money and it's something to do together. However, my kid had to return these games due to a conflict so he couldn't ref with me and I didn't want to return them and leave the games with NO refs. So I busted my a-ss. I was sore as hell the next day with blisters on my feet. Probably a typical day for the average local referee. With that said, I do appreciate all the help the parent ARs did give me. Anyway...something to consider when watching the games.[/quote]

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