Poor Refereeing at Stars Cup

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You know who I missed the most on the reff side of the world . SAM PRESCOTT who last year did about 4 games a day for the tourn. Go SAM. Michaels not bad either.

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How did this guy get his license? Just one of many bad calls. So tired of this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-74HMILMqrE

This kid needs to learn balance so he doesn't go down in the 1st place. Then he needs to get up off the ground after he falls down instead of hoping to get a call. He would have gotten a 3rd chance for a ball if he wasn't flopping around on the ground.
The camera man should have been tossed for addressing the ref. Probably went on all game and influenced the call not going the way he wanted.

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Do you think the club administrators are embarassed by this?

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Do you think the club administrators are embarassed by this?

Not in the least, ref made the right call. Whining parents always see thing with bias opinions.

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This kid needs to learn balance so he doesn't go down in the 1st place. Then he needs to get up off the ground after he falls down instead of hoping to get a call. He would have gotten a 3rd chance for a ball if he wasn't flopping around on the ground.
The camera man should have been tossed for addressing the ref. Probably went on all game and influenced the call not going the way he wanted.

Agree.....First, I wonder if kids are learning some bad habits (i.e. diving, falling, crying foul, acting to get the call) from many of the professional leagues (I blame the italians most). Second, we should be teaching the kids to get up quickly and get on with the game. One fact of soccer is that refereeing is lest than perfect at the highest levels. What do you think it is at the lower levels?? As for this case, I can see the ref making the call based on whether or not he felt the defender was going for the ball or the player. In these cases it isn't clear from the angle that we see if the ball wasn't hit first. Who knows, maybe the Ref might have consider the play different if it wasn't in the penalty box.

What is clear is that the sideline videographer was not happy with the ref. What is clear is that the offensive player went down twice (good efforts to keep the ball and good hustle), but then failed to get back up quickly and get back into the play of the game.

What is very clear is that this is U11 or U12 soccer in a pre-season tournament for which nobody outside of Lancaster Mass was really that concerned about. I hope all the involved parents can overcome these life changing events and enjoy the Labor Day Weekend.

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We welcome new referee recruits here

http://www.massref.net/Central/courseofferings.cfm

After taking the course, you will then know the rules and realize that it is much easier to criticize a ref while sitting in a lawn chair rather than running around a field watching 22 players.

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Would like to see the video of the game v. Bolts the night before when the ref gave this same team (MPS) a PK for a pulled shirt. Gave MPS a much needed goal against the Bolts. as one MPS parent said, "I have to admit it was a BS call." Funny how the bad reffing that goes or this team doesn't get the same level of outrage.

Pulled shirt in the box deserves a PK. Period. Read the LOTG. ALWAYS a foul. In football it will get you called for holding. In basketbal it is a foul. In Hockey, foul. Baseball, automatic out and a ball in the ear next AB.

Trying shutting up and cheering from the players.

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like one poster said, many bad calls in this tournament. Winning has nothing to do with it. Fairness is what kids are looking for. Otherwise it's quite demoralizing.

Most u12's are clueless about the LOTG. Any sense that there is no fairness is learned from parents and coaches.

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Come on penalty!!!

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Do you think the club administrators are embarassed by this?

They should be. If the first play wasn't a foul (it was (classic trip in the box), for for arguments sake lets assume that it wasn't), the dangerous play after that should have been a call- no argument there.

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This kid needs to learn balance so he doesn't go down in the 1st place. Then he needs to get up off the ground after he falls down instead of hoping to get a call. He would have gotten a 3rd chance for a ball if he wasn't flopping around on the ground.
The camera man should have been tossed for addressing the ref. Probably went on all game and influenced the call not going the way he wanted.

Not really. He gets right up after the first trip. Then it looks like he got clipped again.

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tell you how pompous some of these officials are.
i was watching thenefc vs scorpions u14 game.
one of the parents yelled out to one of their defenders
to not worry about an attacker because she was
"offsides". the offensive player was about 10 steps
behind the back line. the ar turned to the parent
and corrected him telling him to get it right that
she was in the offsides "position". guys like that
think they are gods correcting parents on the sideline
and fail to see that some of their peers really suck.
while we were watching the referee missed at least
3 fairly significant calls. one should have been pk for a
take down in the box and a possible red card because
the offensive player was injured and had to be carried
off the field. bet you that ar feels holier than thou though

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Come on penalty!!!

This is getting old. Did you take your meds?

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and a possible red card because
the offensive player was injured and had to be carried
off the field.

What does injury have to do with it possibly being a card.

I really hate being a parent because I have to belong to the same group as these idiots on the sidelines.

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What does injury have to do with it possibly being a card.

I really hate being a parent because I have to belong to the same group as these idiots on the sidelines.

If the foul is flagerant and an injury results shouln't the red be shown?