Recent content by al_2113

That great cooper(im assuming its your name :) ). Enjoy your time off and Im sure thay you'll come back ready to smash it next season and get your promotion.

Hi everyone, I'm a referee in Spain and wanted to share my statistics for the season. Overall I think I've had a good season, ending it with being selected for taking the promotion course(exams + physical tests) to 6th tier football. If I get promoted, this means that I would start having...

Sorry about that. I am not from England, but from Spain. From what I've read I would be now equivalent to either a level 5 or 6 ref. But anyways, thanks for your reply Gabriel.

I didnt mean at grassroots

Can 2 teams play with the same colour shorts if there is no other colour available? Thanks

Hi all, Last weekend I did my completed my first game as an AR outside of grassroots or under 21s games. It was the equivalent of the league below the national leagues(im from Spain). The game was quite relaxed as the home team were much better and won 5-0, but I got a lot of dissent and...

Hi I just wanted to thank all of you who replied and supported me when I put up this message. I took some of your tips and had some good matches in the past few weeks, feeling better on the field. In the next month I have been selected to take promotion exams, so it is likely that I will get...

Thank you all for your supportive messages. Its currently 3am here and I cant sleep just thinking about the match. Today I have to ref two consecutive u18 games and right now that is the last thing i wanna do, especially with low confidence and no sleep. Im not one to make excuses or step down...

Right now I just wanna step down and hang the whistle for a while, but I know I must keep going for the last few weeks of the season, thinking that it cant get any worse than this match. THANK YOU FOR YOUR MESSAGE

I deeply thank you for your message. I spoke to my dad after the game as he was there watching it and he said that I didnt do particularly bad. Of course, I dont believe him because he said this as I was crying a lot and I think it was just to try and make me feel better. Also, I have personal...

Thank you for replying. I just felt like the dissent and shouting started from the very start of the game. I just had a very bad game and did not deal with it correctly. Also, some players implied that I had seen fouls committed on them but had not called them on purpose, which is not true, as I...

Hello, I wanted to seek tips and advice on how to deal with having a horrible game. It was a men's game of a regional category in which i was probably getting assessed. The away team are fighting for promotion, whilst the home team were 4th and playing for nothing with 2 matches remaining. I...

Good morning, I have a question about the goalkeeper. Goalkeeper throws the ball up with his hand inside the penalty area in order to kick it long with his foot, but his foot makes contact with the ball just past the penalty box line. Is this permitted within the laws of the game? I hope you...