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Evening gents, Basically situation is that the Saturday league that I ref on are taking the michael out of me basically and I'm not getting anywhere near the amount of games I expected or want. I'm throwing away the opportunity to make plans with my saturdays or return to my old stewarding job...

72nd minute of U18s, losing team are 5-1 down, one of their players gets smashed by a guy already on a yellow. The team that were 5-1 up were already down to 9, they only started with 10 and I walked one for a second yellow already. Anyway, I blow the foul and am thinking about a second yellow...

Not refereed now for almost 2 weeks and I miss it way too much. :( Don't know how I survived in off season (actually I do, organized games between mates and went and reffed them :D ). I'd literally ref every day if I could. Just enjoy it a lot. Was expecting a game tomorrow but don't have that...

17 Y/O, first season in OA, had 4 middles already resulting in 18 yellows and 3 reds. Been involved on the line in senior county level games too. Just been given a very late appointment for tomorrow afternoon, Division One (just below Premier) in the county league, massive local rivalry between...

Have a game tomorrow at a club I didn't have a good time with last year. As always, new game, new mindset, but I have heard complaints from several refereeing colleagues about this particular team already this season and we're only 6 games in. :( Bit of a weird question, but what are your guys'...

Late post but I've been thinking about this all week and I felt the need to post it now. Saturday U21s I had a nice fair game, nothing really doing, easy to control, a fun game to referee. Sunday U15s I had a horror. It was a team I'd refereed before, blues, and I'd had a bad time with them...

So hey guys. Haven't been around in a while... forgot about the site tbh. I know... how dare I. :D Anyway, had a bit of a stinker couple weeks ago. U21 match. Somehow both teams ended with 11 on the pitch although there was probably a case for 3, maybe 4 reds. Mind wasn't on the game at all...

Done a U18s game yesterday and unfortunately ended up binning 2 and cautioning a further 4. Second half, blue v red, blue are 3-2 up and just have gone down to 10 men after having a player sent off for OFFINABUS. Blue are frustrated. Red slides in hard against blue player, blue retain ball with...

Possibly the most ridiculous referee in the game today. How the **** can he overrule the lino who has clearly seen Mignolet being slapped in the face? How is the ref supposed to see through fifteen players? Stupid refereeing at it's best. Anthony Taylor for you.

Kevin Friend having an absolute shocker. Bottling everything, failed to send off Vergini for clear DOGSO, then bottled giving him a second yellow three mins later for a standard yellow foul, completely just missed O'shea clipping Suarez' ankles. Friend is having an absolute howler. On a...

Now I understand that most of you probably didn't watch this game, but due to my love for south American football and my current insomnia I decided to watch this one. Game ended 2-0 to Sante Fe but something really interesting happened on the 80th minute. Equidad number 28 was a 60th minute sub...

My first big blooper of the season today. Kept getting shouts after around 31 mins of my U12s game asking me how long. Got to 37 mins and one of the managers screams "you do realize we only play 30 ref"... ooops! I had been under the impression they were the U13s and was playing 35 a half. Cue...

A rather peculiar situation presented itself to me yesterday during my U15 league match. Red (home) v Green (away)... Green were 1-0 up inside 3 minutes and dominated the match from there on in. About 20 minutes in I had a word with the coach of green... he was winding up the red left winger...

Okay, quick question, what would be the correct procedure for sending off a manager of a youth team? I have U14s tomorrow and I had them last year at U13 level. I had to send a misconduct report in about the manager after some vile language throughout the match, and I am anticipating a repeat...

Welp, it's 12:20am so I should probably get some sleep so I am ready anyway, but what the heck. Got two games tomorrow, one U14 at 9:30am then an U13 at 12:30pm. Last time I reffed this U14 team I had a player come up to me after almost in tears, saying a striker from opposition had been...

Hi all, Imagine this - Player takes a throw-on back to his goalkeeper. Striker pounces on it before the goalkeeper, striker looks set to get the ball but goalkeeper dives at his feet and picks up the ball. The striker would've scored if the GK didn't. Goalkeeper has effectively...

Hi, Young football referee from the south of England. Looking to converse with like-minded referees and gather others' opinions on incidents and offer my own if needed. Good to meet you all.