I did a bad thing

I had a tanty rage at an umpire last night. They were bad to the point of worthless, with poor decisions and even worse interaction with the players. Arrogant and inept the worst kind.

Anyway it ended up as two idiots arguing as I kindly and politly told him he was inept, and being arrogant and stupid he reacted badly, and this is an umpire who's fair, impartial and accurate.

So I'm not proud and I've been fretting on it since.

In my poor defence I have to say that I had a lot of support for my sentiments if not my actions.

I've been grounded for a week :-(

Watching

So this time we're hiding in plain sight, in the sun, with the other parents, but this time she's a player not an umpire.

The sport of watching sport

I watch my daughter at hockey. Shes progressed through the years aand plats a respectable level for a decent club, in fact premier Womens level.

The game today was marred by poor umpiring. Not the type of poor umpiring where the umpire wants to be involved in the game, but generally poor umpiring decisions and decision making,

Which is a shame.

They won 3-2, and were denied a penalty corner at the end of the game because the poorer of the two umpires was time keeping and being very pedantic about that if at least nothing else in the game.

Now I'm not an umpire, don't claim to be one, but other umpires I was sitting with also made comments and observations, so I feel righteous in my whine.

The sport of watching sport

I watch my daughter at hockey. Shes progressed through the years aand plats a respectable level for a decent club, in fact premier Womens level.

The game today was marred by poor umpiring. Not the type of poor umpiring where the umpire wants to be involved in the game, but generally poor umpiring decisions and decision making,

Which is a shane,

They weon 3-2, and were denied a penalty corner at the end of the game because the poorer of the two umpires was time keeping and being very pedantic about that if at least nothing else in the game.

Now I'm not an umpire, don't claim to be one, but other umpires I was sitting with also made comments and observations, so I feel righteous in my whine