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Like most people have said, giving a red if required is all part of the job. With youth football, if the players are starting to become slightly reckless/bordering a yellow potentially a red, I will usually go and explain to the coaches about it because lets be honest, not many youngsters are...

With the 6-5 criteria, what is the face to face IST?

Thank you! Really appreciate the reply and the help!! Is the MDC a pass or fail thing so if I have development areas will it prevent me from getting promoted?

Hi, I've got a couple of Match Day Coaching Observations coming up as part of my promotion to Level 6. I was wondering if anyone has any tips/useful advice on anything whether game related or about the observation itself in order to help settle the nerves? I know I'm going to need to work on...

You’re doing a good job mate. I’ve lost count the number of sinbins that I’ve given out. Every referee will have a different tolerance level. I tell the captains at the start of the game, I’ll give 1 warning then Sinbin, unless there’s something that warrants a red such as a homophobic slur or...

Ah awesome, thank you! I'm based in Buckinghamshire. I've reached out to a local 'ref school' who run various games over a weekend and hopefully will be able to get enough games in to try and get promotion before the end of the season.

Hi, I'm attempting to try get my promotion from Level 7 to 6 this season however I'm slightly struggling. I'll have hit 10 adult games after this weekend but I'm wondering if anyone has any tips to get the result of my fixtures in until the end of the season and what the latest deadline to get...

Thanks Graeme. I think you are right in terms of the reason why I feel my foul recognition isn't good is probably a lack of confidence. I do get a lot of the "hands in the back ref" shouts and I did send somebody off in a cup game as I was stood on the edge of the box, a throw in came into the...

Hi All, Thank you for all of your comments! Reading through there are a lot of things I've managed to pick up and will take this into my games once they get going again after the festive period! :)

Hi, I’m still new to refereeing and one thing that I’m struggling with is foul recognition. On my initial course foul recognition in my opinion wasn’t something that we covered very well. Can you give me some tips on how to decide if a challenge is a foul and maybe some examples of common fouls...

Hi, So I’m currently in my first full season as a referee and I’m going for promotion twice this season to get up to Level 5! I was an assistant referee as one of the third round qualifying matches for the Women’s FA Cup a couple of weeks ago and one of the other officials asked if we were...