The never ending game

One of the many reasons I enjoy being a soccer ref is you generally know how long your game is going to last.  Youth games last 60 to 90 min + 5 min half, HS is 80 min + 10 min half, except we have 2 5 min extra time "golden goal" periods in Varsity regular season.  Simple, right?

And we're off!

Well I started my Spring season this past weekend.  Gotta love turf fields - even though you come home with 100s of those damn rubber particles in your shoes, the turf fields do permit nearly year-round play.  Few items of note:

• There was still some snow in parts of the field.  So it was 'pushed' off, but unfortunately all in the area where an AR-2 would be roaming.  So we decided to run a right diagonal to prevent AR-2 from slipping on ice/snow.  I was AR-1.  It was an interesting experience.  The level was mid level U-12 girls and the rest of the crew was experienced enough to pull it off with only a few gaffes that a referee would notice but no one else would.  Fortunately, the snow melted in time for my CR game, and we reverted back to the left diagonal.