Recent content by bester

@Big Cat Badly copied from MLS, Webb's previous manor. PRO (Professional Referee Organization)

I'd be happy to see attempt to play the ball being changed to an absolute offside offence; class it under interfering with play.

One way to do a Mike Dean

This thread stinks of people who regularly check whether the observer average has changed by 0.01😉

@Big Cat Fairly recent change. A few years ago a deliberate handball wasn't classed as a deliberate play for the purposes of offside.

FA Cup game was replayed after they used a 6th sub in the 88th minute when 6-1 up. The team who were wining lost the replayed game. 13 minutes of stoppage time were played in this WSL game, so wasn't like the sub came on for a few seconds

Difficult to argue it didn't endanger the safety of an opponent. Watching it again he's not even close to kicking the ball. Accepted that these offences are often overlooked when they action is attempting to score or stop a goal.

Bit embarrassing for someone rather senior in FA referee admin! Not a good afternoon in the Women's game when a National League Cup game was abandoned due to lack of players. 8 turned up, 2 went off injured

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11661/13103555/premier-league-rule-change-to-prevent-ball-boys-and-girls-handing-match-ball-back-to-players

@RefereeX https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1NM4mWusSz/

From 4m30. Not really focused on whether or not it was accidental handball. The Spurs defended kicks Williams in the head. An argument that one or both players actions were playing in a dangerous manner before the contact. As it's on the goalline we seem to give far more leeway in that...