On Jul 3, 2006, at 5:04 PM, Dave Crozier wrote:
I guess that the biggest problem would be if you stopped the watch
when it
is was already off and vice versa. I have done that a couple of
times when
flying without knowing and it sure does screw up your navigation!
At times
like that you resort to "guestimates"!
At one of my first games I pressed the button to start the watch,
and when the first goal kick came a few minutes later I looked at the
time, and it was still at 45:00! Apparently I didn't press the button
hard enough, because it never started. I guessed that about 3 minutes
had gone by, and so when time went down to 3:00 I blew the whistle.
Neither coach complained, so it must have been a good guess. ;-)
My son benefits from all my screw-ups like that. I know have the
habit of starting the watch, blowing the whistle, and then looking at
it to make sure that it is running. When he started doing games, I
taught him all of these 'tricks' to make sure that he doesn't find
himself making the same mistakes.
I'm off in a bit to watch the Rochester Rhinos (USL-1, one step
below MLS) in our new soccer-specific stadium. This is their 4th game
there, but the first I've been able to catch. What's even better is
that the center ref is a guy who was one of my instructors, and with
whom I worked an adult amateur game a couple of weeks ago. He's the
one National level referee in the Rochester area (no international
refs here!), and with any luck I'll be able to catch him after the
match and get the inside scoop of anything interesting that went on.
-- Ed Leafe
-- http://leafe.com
-- http://dabodev.com
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