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Where do people stand on the Rashford/Walker and the Garnacho/Ederson incidents? Personally for me, Rashford's running at full pelt, and at that point it doesn't take a lot to throw you off balance; Walker gains a clear advantage in grabbing at Rashford, it's not shoulder-to-shoulder. Yes it...

Posting on behalf of 15yo who has been reffing since last season and is reffing tomorrow but for the first time the weather forecast is high likelihood of lightning storms during the match. Is there any official guidance from the FA as to when to suspend/abandon a match due to lightning for...

Home club didn't seem to want to engage with any kind of complaint, which is convenient given they arranged the referee... It's not so much the officiating - although if someone who is a registered referee in effect assaults a participant, surely there's got to be a way of the County FA dealing...

Had a contrasting experience today, and could do with some advice to be honest... In the morning, watched 14yo son ref an U11s match, make some good decisions, and generally handle things well. It's about the 20th match he's done and he's really grown into it. Has made the odd mistake...

Fantastic, thanks for the excellent advice all, really appreciate it, and having done thankless admin tasks myself in other sports before, wanted to make sure we were doing the right thing. Will advise him to: contact the boys league's RAS apologise and say that he can't do the fixture...

Hi, Dad of a newly qualified 14yo ref here. He's had four games to ref over the past two weekends in a local girls league, including two with offsides, from U11 up to U13, and has been doing pretty well. This next weekend however he's been scheduled a match by another league that clashes with...