Recent content by Andy Byrne

I had one a couple of seasons ago, gave a penalty against his team and he has basically suggested that I had got it wrong in a more strongly worded manner. Told him to go and take his position on the goal line for the penalty and he carries on with his rant this time he’s told another word and...

It’s something I simply won’t stand for in a game, I have had 6 players for homophobic comments over the last 3 seasons including one of them coming from a female player who was gay herself.

It does get hard with offinabus when it’s between players, as previous post have indicated, for me anything that can be considered discriminatory is met with a red card. Example of this was in my game last night 5 mins into the game 2 opposition players were engaged in some back and forth with...

From a OA game a couple of Saturday’s ago I had player from the home team come up to me just after I had sent off his skipper putting his team down to 9 men asking if I had £100 on the away side to win. He seemed shocked when I sent him to the sin bin and his team were then down to 8 men. From...

I had a good one sent a player off for striking an opponent and he appealed on the basis that he slapped the opponent not punched him. Needless to say I was in the hearing for about 5 minutes and the look on the panels faces were why are we even here and the player was slapped with an additional...

Hi With regards to the coach asking you to down grade the card to a yellow don’t do it if he feels that the red was unjustified then he can appeal it. If he does end up missing coaching his youth players at a cup final it is not your problem he should have thought about that when he was giving...

Last season Sunday league match 10 yellows including 4 sin bins and a red for one of players who was sin binned earlier in the match and a red for an assistant manager calling me a cheating b*****d.

Just checked today and it is still not working

The ball is not in play until it leaves the penalty area on a defensive free kick