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    React to injury?

    Had a game this week that left me puzzling. Ladies' game, reasonably high standard. Not a lot of bad fouls but players niggling about elbowing which I did not see. In second half yellow team player is downed when red player steps into her path deliberately. I immediately whistled for a foul...
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    Good feedback for once

    Just had an email from my ref co-ordinator passing on feedback they were emailed after last week's game. Basically the player complimented me on my foul calling and general positioning and wanted it to reach official ears. I did feel very good about how that game went, but after so much...
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    IFK in penalty area.

    Had an interesting one occur in one of my games last week. Ladies OA, pretty easy game to ref. Red's keeper catches ball. Everyone runs out waiting for her clearance. She puts ball down on ground, looks around for a few seconds, then decides to change her mind and pick it up again. I blow...
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    Open Age Outsmarting the ref.

    Just thought I'd post something a little different. I would be very interested to hear anyone's stories of when they (as a player, coach or even a CAR) managed to outsmart the referee. Not necessarily examples of cheating, but stories of out-thinking or wrong footing the match officials. Let...
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    Open Age How to deal with a myth of the game

    This actually happened a while back at the tail end of the season, but I thought I might share it. Green 7 on a breakaway down the right wing, Green 10 lagging behind her in the centre, all of the Red team lagging way behind these two. Green 7 centres ball to her team mate, who is some yards...
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    text book circumvention.

    http://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2016/11/23/bradley-s-disputed-goal-and-burch-lodeiro-incident-instant-replay?autoplay=true This is from Toronto FC and Montreal yesterday. at 1.27 It would be hard to find a clearer example of a player using trickery to circumvent the "back pass" rule (and I know...
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    Referee Lifestyle compared

    I have found this site extra helpful in seeing the approaches to refereeing made by many peers in the game, especially from different countries. It also strikes me that it would be interesting to compare in greater detail the whole life style set up (admin, day to day, cost) of referees from...
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    Needs to be said

    Yesterday was the first day of our Football season (in Australia we run April till Sept/Oct). I was scheduled for two Ladies' games, first a division six match and afterwards a division three. These are open age games with most of the ladies being in early twenties. Over both games combined I...
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