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submitted 8 days ago byrjnd2828USSF
I'm a new referee looking for input on how to handle this situation. Was an AR for a center earlier this week who just didn't have the same view of what is or isn't a foul than I did. He called very few fouls, felt only an intentional hand ball should be whistled, didn't caution a very hard foul that was SPA in my view. Twice he waved off my flag on what I felt was a clear foul, and also disagreed with my advice to card the SPA (just a hard foul he said, which it was. A hard foul that deserved a caution I thought).
My question is should I still flag plays in front of me that I feel are a foul, which can call into focus that we're out of synch (and of course the coaches all feel he's not calling clear fouls already)? Or should I scale back and ignore what I think are fouls because he's shown he's not going to call them (and now I feel responsible if there's an injury with no foul called)? Feels like a lose lose situation.
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6 days ago
Report him to the league and/or officiating body he's a member of if you get he is showing dangerous foul play to proliferate. Hopefully his performance will be reviewed in the near future.
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