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Totally agree Big Daddy. If you are known for being an "aggressive" team and cards were issued, then refs should look closer. How can ANY REF within eyeshot not see a girl picked up and slammed??? Should I be teaching this to my 9 year old soccer team that it is part of soccer or did the refs decide to let it play out despite a the smallest player on the field flying thru the air. Did you think she was gearing up for a bicycle kick??? I am baffled how a ref can miss it and not to mention how a ref can get on a public forum and say a team was whining. Isn't that a conflict of interests, you ref a game, then rip the team afterwards. I hope you are not assigned to Clover anymore since you have a preconceieved notion about them.


Realist did not say anyone was "whining". He said they were the team questioning calls or no-calls.

As far as I can tell, Realist is the only neutral party who was there and who has described the situation on this forum. We should thank him, instead of criticizing him, for giving us a neutral recounting of the events. Everyone else that has described "assault", "slammin", dirty play, etc, is associated with one of the teams and definitely will see things in the light of their teams. As has been said on this message board plenty of times, the way a game played out or whether a referee call was correct typically depends entirely on which team you pull for.

I have recently been to several games between teams that I had no connection to so that I was a completely neutral party. The fans around me were all for one team and were apparently watching a different game than the one I saw. They saw fouls I didn't see, didn't see fouls I saw, and saw "blatant, intentional, hitting & shoving" that was not on the field I was watching.