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[quote=Anonymous][quote=SoccerRef]Any time a coach comes up to me after a game and prefaces his complaint with "I used to play pro ball..." I know he or she is about to demonstrate ignorance of the Laws. It's uncanny. [/quote]

Hey, Taylor Twellman clearly doesn't know the Laws of the Game, and he's paid to do commentary on it. (And, far too often, he talks about refs more than he talks about the players.)

As a parent and rec coach, I mostly see parents who don't understand shoulder charges. I have to explain that the little bump they saw wasn't a foul.

Then again, I see plenty of refs who let shoulder-to-shoulder contact morph into elbow-to-rib or shoulder-to-face. Most of the refs who let all this contact go are younger and perhaps unwilling to assert themselves. I have never seen a ref in this area who called *too many* fouls.

One question: What do you do when you have a ref who appears to have had a blackout? I know this sounds like a sarcastic question, but we had a situation last fall in which 30-minute halves because 38-minute halves, and one kid was down holding his head (later diagnosed with a concussion) while play continued for 1-2 minutes. The rule of thumb I've used as a coach and parent is that I'll yell to draw the ref's attention to an unsafe situation like a player being down with a head injury or a goal becoming dislodged, etc. In this case, all of us parents were yelling, and the ref simply didn't acknowledge anything until the ball wound up back in that part of the field and he finally noticed the player was down. (Then he asked everyone who committed the foul and wound up giving a yellow card to what I presume was a random player.)

And another question: How are refs in this area preparing for the adoption of "buildout lines" in the fall?[/quote]

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