Just taken this from the match thread and thought it belonged here.
I'd actually like to be there with Ben Williams watching a full replay and seeing how he reacts to his choices and decisions. Surely even he would have to admit he fucked up.
He'd have to leave his ego at the door though. And why does he always smile at you just before he gives you a card?
Folk
smile when they are nervous and can have an inverse facial reaction
when in stressful situations such as conflict. At the very least it
might just be a rueful smile. He has obviously found himself highly
stressed or perhaps out of his depth and now emotions have died down a
bit, we should step back from it. I mean we can all jump up and down at
the time, (I certainly did), but it would be interesting to think about
why he had such an appalling match. Training has to be an issue.
The
direct body overseeing refereeing would do well to look at this match
and I'd expect to see him, (Williams), interviewed to discover why he
reached the decisions he did, what level of stress he felt he was under, did he feel intimidated by the presence of Kewell and what would he do differently. I wonder how much
conflict management these guys do and how they manage aggression. I see
he is a PT teacher so I wonder what conflict training there is for
teachers these days as well?
As you work in a highly stressful
environment LG where conflict and aggression is commonplace I wonder
what your thoughts are about Williams after you've had a chance to
reflect on what happened? How do you react/have reacted and how stress
effects your decision-making and how you manage it? I know I've
blundered in my role when stress has got to me in the past and I've
built up a number of ways of trying to prevent stress getting on top of
me or managing it when it does.
What would you like to see to improve refereeing in the A league, be it training or technology?