A busy summer, on and off the field...

    It has been a busy few weeks in my soccer-world, what with meetings, tournaments and individual assignments to assess potential national referees.  So I have been preparing audio-visual presentations (Advantage: Use and Misuse; Recognizing Illegal Use of Hands; What the Da Silva Injury Means for Referees; The Professional; Managing the Communication Network Among the Crew; and various pieces for local meetings of assessors), and delivering them.  I’ve assessed eight games in Region 4, from PDL games to tournament games in Open, Amateur and Over-30 divisions; taught sessions for AYSO and for local referee groups.  It has indeed been a busy month…

    Something had to give, and as you know, it was the blog, because in that period I still tried to do some “real work”, dealing with aspects of the life and death of Dylan Thomas and John Berryman; preparing a proposal about my experience at the bottom of the Pacific; and another about why complementary and alternative medicine has such an allure, even though its results are nothing more than the effect of placebos, and the inadvertent (sometimes deliberate) deception of practitioners. And on top of all that “real work”, I’m waiting (anxiously) to hear from Smithsonian Magazine about a proposal I sent them a couple of months ago.  That in itself will be a major writing task.

    So, thanks for your patience and for all the emails you sent about this problem or that.  I’ve got some assessments to write up first, and then I’ll post a “real blog”, perhaps a remark or two about the ignorance of commentators on both sides of the Atlantic, when talking about offside in the Italy-Holland game.  Or the turmoil caused by the new rules for qualifying as a national referee…

Comments

[CSR]

You were missed.

Any chance of sharing those AV presentations? :)

-- CSR

[Michael K.]

Good to hear everything is going well. You should post all of that and some of your presentations. :-)

[Richard - Canada]

Rob;
I too would be very interested in seeing the presentations. Are you cutting them to disc? Another option would try a Webcast over the internet. I could help set this up if you are interested.

Richard