OP Friend, you were screwed, ready to be blued and ultimately assuredly tattooed. Sometimes you are faced with a no win situation.
Pre-game, no pre-game, it probably would have made no difference.
As you wander along your officiating career, hopefully, you will find a kindly Game Assignor who will take pity upon you and assign you to games being played by those whose hearts are filled with tons of joy and love instead of riddled with trash and feces.
My advice? If your Assignor will not protect you from such disgraceful baboons, then hire a honeypot, send her to his favorite bar, take videos of them after they depart...and frame him the lousy buttclown.