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SM - Thanks for reply. I guess its down to opinion; but i don't believe the attacker was trying to prevent the GK releasing the ball. He didn't make any movement to the GK. And in the interests of full disclosure i do not support any of these teams

Can you explain why you consider that to be sensible refereeing? I cant see what the attacker did wrong, he was standing still and made no effort to prevent the GK kicking the ball.

What are peoples thoughts on this? The ref did not award a goal and booked the striker. https://vine.co/v/OVpIv27e56i

Thanks for all the advice, hopefully will never happen again. But if I does, guess the lesson is that I need to be stronger early on. Was reluctant to start booking people to early as I thought that might make the situation worse, and make players more heated. Next time I am in this situation...

How do other referees deal with grudge matches? Turned up to ref a game at the weekend, was greeted by home team players warning me it was going to a tough match to ref today. First 10mins uneventful, then it started to heat up. Nasty tackle from away team CB that received a yellow card. From...