PATRON PRESIDENT Pam Wells : 01483 833394 Peter Guest : 01483 771649 Chairman Life Vice Presidents Vince Penfold David Cooper, Cedge Gregory, Chris Jones, Ken Chivers , Neil Collins Vice—Chairman Secretary Corin Readett Patric Bakhuizen Treasurer and Membership Secretary Editor : The Warbler Bryan Jackson 01483 423808 Mac McBirnie, 01483 835717 / 07770 643229 1 Woodstock Grove, Godalming, Surrey, GU7 2AX 16 Robins Dale, Knaphill, Surrey GU21 2LQ [email protected] Training Officer Supplies Officer Corin Readett Tony Price 01483 836388 / 07766 973304 R.A Delegates Committee Brian Reader 01483 480651 Roy Butler Gareth Heighes Roy Butler 07747 800687 Colin Barnett Martin Read Patric Bakhuizen, Dave Lawton, Derek Stovold Emily Hodgkinson Friends of Woking Referees Society Roy Lomax ; Saundra Evans ; Pam Wells ; Tom Jackson ; Elaine Riches ; Lee Cable INSIDE THIS MONTH’S WARBLER Page 1: Agenda Page 2 : From the Chair Page 3 : Accounts /Membership /Last months speaker Page 4 : Mac’s Musings Page 5: Fisticuffs at U11s Page 6/7/8/: How refereeing soccer made me a better doctor Page 9 : Murphy’s Meanderings Page 10: Charlton 0 Barnsley 1 - Brian Reader Page 11 : Refereeing tips and techniques - Jeff Pettitt Page 12: Wild West - Human Nature Page 13 : Plum Tree Page 14 : Be Prepared - Len Randall Page 15/16: The value of Goal Line Technology - Patrick Barclay Page 16/17 : What makes a bad tackle ? Page 18/19 : More thoughts on Goal Line Technology Page 20 : Sarah Garrett - This month’s speaker Page 21 ; Dates for your Diary Page 26/27: What would you do Answers / What would you do? The Warbler The Magazine of the Woking Referees’ Society Meadow Sports Football Club Loop Rd Playing Fields, Loop Rd, Kingfield, Woking Surrey GU22 9BQ 7.45pm for a prompt 8pm start AGENDA 8.00 Chairman’s Welcome Our Guest Speaker Sarah Garrett Level 2B and FIFA Referee National List Assistant Referee Break Society Business Next meeting Monday 3rd December 2012 The Deadline for the December edition is Friday 23rd November 2012 The views expressed in this magazine are not necessarily those of the Society or it’s Committee 1 The Warbler The Magazine of the Woking Referees’ Society Welcome to the November Warbler A big thank you to Ray Olivier for being our guest speaker in October. Ray gave a great presentation on pre match and post match behavior. Ray gave us plenty to consider about what is and what is not appropriate behavior. Those present could not help but take some useful and helpful practices away with them. We look forward to when Ray is able to visit us again. This Month we welcome Sarah Garrett. Sarah is one of our high profile lady referees operating at the most senior level. We look forward to welcoming Sarah on November 5th. As I sit and watch Chelsea V Manchester Utd the referee has sent Torres off for a second yellow card which was for simulation. It concludes me to think two things. As a referee we must be 100% sure when cautioning for simulation. We are saying you cheated or have tried to cheat. Consider your action if a player calls you a cheat, so when cautioning for simulation be sure you know what you have seen. The second thought is one of split second decision-making. I would love to jump on the bandwagon and castigate the referee with my 3 dif- ferent views and slowed down action showing that contact was made and probably the decision should have gone for Torres. I have to accept and un- derstand the referee only has one view and sees it only once. Remember when you are out there in the thick of it you only get one view so when we watch TV we should always go with our first decision and live or die by that. I for one am glad all my decisions are not dissected from five different angles and have the utmost respect for those that contend with this every time they enter the field of play. Just another thought that I have had this month and I don’t think it will ever change but I will pose he question. If clubs are going to have in their rules and if they are going to print in their programmes, that if spectators use offensive or racist language they will be removed from the ground. So perhaps some one could tell me why this just doesn’t happen. Until clubs impose their own rules we will never kick this out of the game. I look forward to seeing you all at the November meeting. Yours in sport Vince 2 The Warbler The Magazine of the Woking Referees’ Society From the Treasurer / Membership Secretary 2012 Current Status General £1,294.55 Supplies £271.95 Belgium £0.00 Youth Fund £113.50 Total £1,680.00 012/13 Membership As at 20th October 65 Full Members 6Friends 2 Affiliate Members Last month’s meeting saw the welcome return of Ray Olivier along with the dele- gates of the current batch of “Wannabe Refs “ Ray was, as before, his usual effervescent self and we all enjoyed his presenta- tion and acting skills. I’m sure the guys on the refs course realty got a lot out of it. Those of us who are a bit longer in the tooth no doubt recognised the characters played out in excel- lent fashion by Ray and his colleagues. I particularly enjoyed the Ref concerned only for his marks and warning the newly qualified assistant not to mess up and make any contentious decisions. In fact don’t make any decisions at all. And as for the “old” assistant, - brilliant—we’ve all come across them. Been round the block and back, and know every dodge in the book. I don’t know who wrote the script, or even if there was one, but it was very well done. Ray gets a cuddle from Vince Future Howard Webbs ? Pictures courtesy of Barry Rowland 3 The Warbler The Magazine of the Woking Referees’ Society In last month’s Warbler I was remarking upon the odd occasion when a spectator calls the Referee or club assistant “cheat”. Well blow me down the very next game the linesman, who was having very good game, flagged for an offside. He had been following my instructions and waiting to see where the ball went, and to whom before raising the flag. On this occasion after I’d blown the whistle, he called me over and claimed that one of the supporters had called him a cheat. There were only a few parents present (U18s) so he was easily identifiable. I called the manager over and said to them both that if I was called over again by my linesman, the offender would be watching the rest of the game from his car. Possibly a bit difficult as the car park was behind the clubhouse and not in view of the pitch but you get my drift. I’m not sure of the actual legality of this as I had- n’t actually heard the guy, but he certainly didn’t deny the fact and apologised to myself and the linesman. The game continued without further incident, but I did add a comment in my match report to the league. At the end of the game, another spectator wandered over and explained that he was currently on the referees course and wanted to know what had happened and what I had said, which I duly did. He was also interested to know why I had made a certain decision in the last few minutes of the game. The blues were 2— 1 down and I had awarded them a free kick just inside the reds half. The ball was lobbed into the penalty area and two players jumped for the ball and the red de- fender fell down holding his head, the ball was cleared but as the lad was still down, I blew up. At this point the blues kicked the ball back and the reds goal- keeper picked it up. The red defender got back to his feet and said he was ok. At this point I noticed that the ‘keeper was busy placing the ball ready for a free kick. Now I hadn’t blown for a foul, but for a potential head injury so the correct re -start was a dropped ball about a third of the way up the pitch, but the consensus from the players, well the keeper anyway, seemed to be that the whistle was for the former. I was about to explain it was a dropped ball, but realised that if I did, the blues would no doubt kick it back to the keeper and the ball would end up precisely where it was now and more time would be taken up. So I just let them get on with it. I explained this to the gentleman, whose son was apparently playing and was himself a qualified ref, that sometimes it’s easier and causes less controversy to just go with the flow. It’s the same when the ball goes out of play and you’re not too sure who had the last touch. Often it’s prudent to wait a few seconds to see what the players reaction is. Obviously there are those players who will claim for every ball, even when it’s blatantly obvious it’s not theirs, but surprisingly often one player or players will run back into position leaving the ball for their oppo- nents. You will find a couple of articles in this edition that I found regarding goal line technology, one of which argues that if the players were honest then would we need it? But then again, players may honestly believe they’ve seen the ball go over the line, just like us referees honestly believe what we’ve seen, even though the cameras may show something different, just like Mark Clattenberg’s dis- missal of Torres.? Happy whistling Mac 4 The Warbler The Magazine of the Woking Referees’ Society Assistant ref 'punched dad' at Crawley under-11 football tie POLICE were called to a children's football match after an assistant referee was accused of punching an irate parent in the face.