Recent content by Bongsmon

Just wondering whether if you are a Level 4 official, you have to do the contributory league lines or whether that is an optional extra as it were. I'm currently debating my future as a referee - I love it but I'm struggling to combine work & family commitments with the amount of time I'm...

If you're a level 4, when would you be likely to hear whether or not you've been nominated for promotion to level 3?

Thanks - I knew I was right!!! I gave that decision on the line yesterday. The ref blew & publicly backed me but said after the game that he thought I may have been wrong in law

I remember watching a champions league game on the telly from old Trafford a couple of seasons ago and a player's boot came off. He picked it up & a short while later received the ball whilst still only wearing one boot. The referee blew his whistle & awarded an indirect free kick to United...

Its difficult for me to really say anything having not been there just more a case that I think being 18-20 yards from the goal itself & in the context of the game you've described that you could have sold a caution and been correct in application of law - there are times when you think you...

I've been told by my county that its not unheard of for managers to ask the "you're not going to put them cards in are you?", butter you up, think they've talked you round & then personally ask the county FA whether you've sent them in before reporting you if you haven't - a sneaky way of...

I'd have probably gone for the caution for the handball - not due to the context of the game or how long was left but because I don't think that you can say a shot was clearly going to go in when it is handled outside the box. Although obviously I wasn't there, there's too many variables there...

I agree, with this particular incident I mentioned, it was one of those where I knew both players were riled from the original challenge & maybe should have kept glancing back to keep an eye on it as it developed rather than turning my back on it completely & legging it upfield. Like you say...

If I was operating without assistants or where I had CAR's then I wouldn't send a player off for something I didn't see - When I was a level 7 I had an incident where 2 players had challenged for the ball, ball got cleared up field, I followed play & a few seconds later I heard a commotion & one...

Been discussing this on a website of the professional team I support this morning. IMO the first challenge is a red all day long for blue 5 & I think if the ref had done that then the rest of the game may have panned out differently. The second one (where the assistant gets cleaned out) I find...

Ryan - don't worry about it. You've submitted a report so just stick to the facts. As mentioned, they will ask you if you have anything else to add to your report, then the manager will have their statement read & his witness will be questioned. All you have to do is deny the things that didn't...