Today I worked a game with a guy I had not worked with before. He was OK, but one thing has me still shaking my head. A1 has ball, wants to bounce pass to A2. Bounce pass hits B1 in foot. Partner blows whistle for kicked ball. B1 never moved his foot, the pass just hit it. I don't say anything, but at halftime I ask him about it. I asked him if B1's intentionally kicked the ball. He said that he always calls a kick anytime the ball hits anyone's foot. He said that to try to determine if the kick was intentional or not is too hard for him, after all, he is not a "mind reader" and cannot be expected to know whether there was intent or not, so he just calls them all a kick. He further stated that "none of the coaches or players know that rule anyway, so what's the difference?" I told him that if I started making up my own rules for everything that coaches and players don't know, I'd have to make up the whole game! He didn't "get it".
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Sun Oct 17, 1999, 07:09pm
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