First Fight and Ejection

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Originally Posted by grunewar

I was always told coming up, if there's a fight in your game, it's because you missed something.

As a rule of thumb to prompt preventive officiating, this bromide is useful.

As an iron-clad rule that covers all cases and makes you feel bad, not so much. Like any other rule of thumb, it has exceptions.

Your task now is to reflect on anything you might have missed (probably nothing if you called 29 fouls in the half) that might have prevented it.

If a careful game evaluation turns up nothing, let it go: sometimes it has nothing to do with the game (player just had heart broken, flunked a grade, found out Santa doesn't exist, etc.).