I had my second play off game of the season last night and it was a nail biter. Final score was 9-8 and the team that was down had last possession of the ball with 30 seconds left and they could have tied it up. Last night was also the first time I have ever felt the urge to red card a girl. It wouldn't have mattered because her team ended up losing, but I have never been so mad at a girl in my officiating career.
So one of the white team's star player is an athletic girl with a killer shot, number 24. Blue causes a turnover in white's offensive end, it's coming out towards me. Something catches my eye because I see one blue player making a weird run, not towards the ball like other or upfield. No, she is running directly towards white 24. I know I should have been following the ball as it was coming towards me, but this blue player caught my eye. Blue runs up to White and just cross checks/pushes her for no reason. The ball was nowhere near where they were. I think Blue tried to make it look like she was blocking her out (of what? I don't know) It was such a blatant flagrant foul. I was so mad that I said yellow card for misconduct. I should have red carded her. OMG, so mad. It would have been my first red card for something like that. I've done other red cards for flagrant fouls, but those were automatic because it stopped sure goals and were not intentional like this one.
I should have carded her. That one will stick with me for a while.
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