We played our fifth match last night. It was against Free Agents, an team made of individuals. I arrived late, just around kick off time. We were disorganized. Kela ran in to get pinnies. They gave him black and too few.
I said we should exchange them because the referees were wearing black. There should be five different types of jerseies on the field for the five different roles: referees, two goalies. and two teams of outfield players.
We started one man short and they had two men short. They soon got another player and laters filled their squad. Christian arrived at half-time as our eleventh man.
In the first half Erik scored off a short corner from Scott.
Later in the half they were in our box. We couldn’t clear it and they yelled at what they thought were handballs. Then one of them pushed Marek’s hand into the ball and the ref called a penalty. The shooter missed wide.
We defended our lead and missed several other chances. I missed a volley just in front of the net, More practice and focus would have helped me there.
Steve got his fourth shutout. We clinched first place.
Several players on their team had a bad attitude. One dude got angry with me. He told the referee to watch my f elbow. Yes it is very nice; everyone should watch it. He also threatened me, so when I received the bnall I held on to it for a bit so he could make good on committing a foul. Free kick for us and perhaps some petty satisfaction for him. I was dismayed when the referees didn’t make a call when they cursed, especially since the CRec website says:
• INSULTING, OFFENSIVE OR ABUSIVE LANGUAGE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!! Guilty player will be sent-off, and reported to the league
I can endure a lot, but I don’t like swearing and I would rather not hear fy, fo, and mf, while I am playing a game of gentlemen. The apparent hypocrisy is also a major concern. Not only is it against CRec rules, in writing if not in practice, it is against the laws of the game which say:
Sending-Off Offences
A player, substitute or substituted player is sent off and shown the red card if he commits any of the following seven offences:
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6. uses offensive or insulting or abusive language and/or gestures
Also calling the referee’s names, albeit in a foreign language, doesn’t make you any cooler.