I assume refs will be terrible, but it's ok as long
by Freight Train (2021-04-15 13:25:05)

In reply to: Youth soccer recs  posted by 570tosb


as the terribleness goes both ways. I usually say nothing when the bad calls happen because 80% of the time my team is getting the benefit of the bad calls close enough to 50% of the time. However, in the other 20% of the time, I'm going to ask for the referee to start calling a better game and that includes me strategically noting to the referee that they just made a bad call that my team benefitted from and they need to knock it off lest one of those go against me at a crucial moment.

That throws the ref for a loop when I do that and I only do it during a dead ball so that I can explain why I'm complaining about a bad call I just benefitted from.