My heart breaks......

Weekly Bowden Saturday soccer only this time it was a little different......

BooBoo had played her heart out all game and 4th quarter she was in goal, a normal position that she excels in and today was no different. Here she was again at her finest, Rocket powered shot right on target and my baby SAVED it!!!!!!!!

Her excitement and joy just made me so proud but WAIT what happened next left me gobsmacked.

In BooBoo's excitement she jumped up and landed her back foot behind the goal, the ball was clearly in front of the goal still SAVED, what happened next felt like slow motion, the kids still excited that BooBoo saved the goal looked in disbelief as the 2 refs looked at each other then simultaneously pointed to the center spot a goal was given!!!!!!!! WHAT!!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!

Now to be fair I was not near the goal so didn't actually see what transpired until later but it was quite clear Papa was enraged, I think for a moment it didn't matter if it was BooBoo in goal or another kid from the team all that mattered is Papa had to fight for what he believed in and he knew it was NOT a goal.

Papa and the ref got into it with Papa shouting at the ref and the ref shouting back, the ref even threatened with a red card to Papa. BooBoo was heartbroken, her earlier excitement and joy was wiped away in a millisecond by the ref, BOO YOU REF!!!!!!