Hi referees! I thought that I'd toss this out there as an example for this forum's purpose. feel free to join in and respond with your opinion!
So I had a situation in a 12U boys game. Purple player carelessly charged an orange defender and before I could blow my whistle, orange retaliated with a reckless charge of his own. I blew the whistle to stop play, but what do I enforce and how do I restart?
Here's what I did.
I blew the whistle, long and hard to tell EVERYONE that I was not happy.
I explained loud enough for the players and coaches to hear that "there was a foul and a retaliation before I could whistle the foul. We are enforcing the foul, DFK for orange. For the retaliation, orange will be cautioned for Unsporting Behavior." Present the yellow to orange.