Sunday League

We had an away match in London, turned up for the game, the home team were there but none us could locate the ref. It was a park that had proper pitches and also regular recreation areas.

We eventually found the ref (in full kit) - some local kids had convinced/tricked him to referee their facking game of Wembley
*Wembley is the game played with one goal of jumpers for goal posts

The ref actually took some convincing to come ref our game and unsurprisingly he wasn't very good when we did eventually start!

As an "intermediate" (under 18) our right back took one "awkward" and everybody heard the sick "plop" sound as he dropped to the floor. To make it worse it was raining and barely above freezing. Our coach with the bucket of cold water and the "magic" sponge started running towards him with the team, as one, warning him what was coming. He instantly jumped to his feet with the coach chasing him around the field with a dripping sponge. The ref could do nothing for fits of laughter. Around 1963.

I was refereeing a match the Marathon Sunday League in Hayes, one of the teams came from from the notorious Stonebridge Park estate near Wembley.

The home team were from Harrington, what I didn’t know was that there had been trouble between these teams over a number of years.

About 30 minutes into the game one of the Stonebridge players went off injured after a heavy tackle. The game carried on, however early in the second half the player who had gone off injured suddenly appeared running towards the pitch. He was shouting and carrying a machete, he started to chase one of the Harlington players, who had decided to sprint away from the obvious danger. Fortunately, on the next pitch were two police officers playing in another match. They managed to tackle the guy and disarm him, before calling for reinforcements.

I abandoned the match with Stonebridge winning 2-1, the actually appealed against my decision saying I had no reason to abandoned the game.
However the league rules stipulated that if at any time there is a threat to life, then the game should be abandoned. I think a guy running on the pitch waving a machete qualifies

My Sunday league side was playing in a five a side tournament once.

Playing against this team and this fat ginger bloke playing up front for them scored against us. As soon as he scored he just ran off the pitch and didn’t return. We ended up winning 3-1 against 4 players. They didn’t really care as they were already out.

At the end I asked one them what happened and he said the fat bloke hadn’t scored all tournament and when he did his plan was to run to the main tent and down a pint.

comment by GeniusGreaves (U1302)
posted 21 minutes ago
I was refereeing a match the Marathon Sunday League in Hayes, one of the teams came from from the notorious Stonebridge Park estate near Wembley.

The home team were from Harrington, what I didn’t know was that there had been trouble between these teams over a number of years.

About 30 minutes into the game one of the Stonebridge players went off injured after a heavy tackle. The game carried on, however early in the second half the player who had gone off injured suddenly appeared running towards the pitch. He was shouting and carrying a machete, he started to chase one of the Harlington players, who had decided to sprint away from the obvious danger. Fortunately, on the next pitch were two police officers playing in another match. They managed to tackle the guy and disarm him, before calling for reinforcements.

I abandoned the match with Stonebridge winning 2-1, the actually appealed against my decision saying I had no reason to abandoned the game.
However the league rules stipulated that if at any time there is a threat to life, then the game should be abandoned. I think a guy running on the pitch waving a machete qualifies
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That's savage and the appeal bit is at least quite funny

Our uni side had a lad from a very dodgy part of London. One of their players (in his local side) went into the opposition dressing room with a knife pre game and basically said we win or you die. Facking idiots.

You get some real trash playing Sunday league. For them, going out on a Sunday to get involved in a bit of aggro is the highlight of their week. I’ve got a lot of respect for referees who get up to officiate those games.

My league was pretty clean actually. A few idiots but generally most opposition were alright.

comment by Scruttocks (U19684)
posted 5 hours, 25 minutes ago
comment by GeniusGreaves (U1302)
posted 21 minutes ago
I was refereeing a match the Marathon Sunday League in Hayes, one of the teams came from from the notorious Stonebridge Park estate near Wembley.

The home team were from Harrington, what I didn’t know was that there had been trouble between these teams over a number of years.

About 30 minutes into the game one of the Stonebridge players went off injured after a heavy tackle. The game carried on, however early in the second half the player who had gone off injured suddenly appeared running towards the pitch. He was shouting and carrying a machete, he started to chase one of the Harlington players, who had decided to sprint away from the obvious danger. Fortunately, on the next pitch were two police officers playing in another match. They managed to tackle the guy and disarm him, before calling for reinforcements.

I abandoned the match with Stonebridge winning 2-1, the actually appealed against my decision saying I had no reason to abandoned the game.
However the league rules stipulated that if at any time there is a threat to life, then the game should be abandoned. I think a guy running on the pitch waving a machete qualifies
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That's savage and the appeal bit is at least quite funny

Our uni side had a lad from a very dodgy part of London. One of their players (in his local side) went into the opposition dressing room with a knife pre game and basically said we win or you die. Facking idiots.
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That's crazy

I was the goalkeeper in my Sunday League team. I knew it was all over when my left back was smoking a cig waiting for a corner to be taken 😂

We played a Saturday afternoon district league fixture against a local village team who had a reputation for being a bit rustic to say the least.

We were having a right laugh on the way over about what sort of "country ways" we might encounter but the joke was on us when the kick off was delayed for 20 minutes to get the sheep off the pitch and then they beat us 3-1.

comment by palmers_spur (U8896)
posted 9 hours, 18 minutes ago
My Sunday league side was playing in a five a side tournament once.

Playing against this team and this fat ginger bloke playing up front for them scored against us. As soon as he scored he just ran off the pitch and didn’t return. We ended up winning 3-1 against 4 players. They didn’t really care as they were already out.

At the end I asked one them what happened and he said the fat bloke hadn’t scored all tournament and when he did his plan was to run to the main tent and down a pint.
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