Am I justified to have lost my temper or not?

[Gedalia_w]

I play 5 a side football pretty much every Sunday afternoon with a large pool of guys at a Power League near me. We make teams on the day and just play for fun for a couple of hours. I got in on the game about 6 months ago through one guy who plays that I knew, dont know the rest of the guys outside of football but they all know each other.

Last Sunday there was this guy that I had only played with once before but everyone knows him well except me and im playing defence and this guy is goal hanging the whole time and whenever we're both running for the ball or on the ball he was constantly shoving me with his hands. Not just normal jostling you would expect but full on pushing me.

I kept telling him to lay off but he wouldn’t and after the umpteenth time that he shoved me when we're fighting for the ball and I fall over I completely lost my cool and started shouting at him and pushing him.

Everyone seems to take his side and that basically im a psycho for losing my temper "its just a game" the guy keeps saying "just because im stronger than you" which ****** me off even more and he had the nerve to ask for an apology after the game, and I get a call the next day from the guy who organises the games but wasn’t there this week basically berating me for losing my temper.

If it’s just a game, why can’t he play without pushing me constantly? Every time I think about the situation my blood boils and I think about battering the ******.

Do you think I was justified or am I just plane crazy?

 

[Gedalia_w]

The thing is I tried deplomacy, I tired telling him a few times to stop and he just ignored me.

In the 6 months that ive been playing with these guys, no one has played this way. If they all did it then fine its part of the game. And to top it off there are 2 or 3 regulars who will call foul the instant anyone pushes them wrong.

As a kid I had a really short tempor and would snap at everything. It got me in to a lot of trouble in school, but I so rarely lose my tempor now which to me means that the guy really got under my skin.

If he is playing next week I will for sure get in there early with a taste of his own medicine.

 

[Gedalia_w]

Yeah, studs *** (cant abriviate For the Win?), but we dont play on grass, its proper 5-a-side pitches.

When I tried to explain to the other guys that he was constantly shoving me they didnt seem to think that was a problem, and certainly not something to lose my cool about.

The guy has this annoying higher than normal pitched voice and always has this cheesy grin on his face, like Alan Cummings and that made it worse

So, woe is me for losing my temper.