Recent content by CaptainsPlease

Just on this one, County FAs do administer discipline reports from unregistered refs but reports have to be emailed in as they can't use Referee Portal. Something else I just thought of is loss of Level if you stay unregistered for too long.

Any fees they receive could not be enforced by the competition. If there was an agreement to pay a fee, in the event of non-payment the only recourse would be a court claim. Also the opposing team does not have to accept that individual to referee. The two clubs have to agree on someone but it...

The standard code of rules references 'registered referees' being appointed so if you are not registered you cannot be appointed, and only appointed officials are entitled to fees.

Much more likely to be simply an error (and a big one at that) given it was a far side decision.

To clarify I do mean any goal/no goal decision. Hence why West Ham's would still be disallowed. The most egregious incidents that led to calls for video review were for goals being wrongly awarded or not awarded.

A while ago we had an 'honest discussion about VAR' thread and I stand by my suggestion to limit what is reviewable. It would be better to only use VAR for: Goal/no goal Violent conduct Biting or spitting Penalty/no penalty all factual decisions (e.g. position of offence) and subjective...

If a player holds their arms across their own chest in an X shape that is obviously 'not justifiable by their movement' but it would be absurd to claim that would mean they had made their body 'unnaturally bigger' if the ball hit an arm. I think it is self-explanatory that making the body bigger...

It is not likely to be a successful appeal for Quorn as it can only go in their favour if 'no reasonable body could have come to this decision'. But they are likely to know that and it can be more about making their objection clear.

Here's the incident (4:43): Ball definitely hits the defender's arm: I agree that the defender's body is not being made unnaturally bigger because the ball is going to hit his head anyway. I am also not seeing a deliberate action by the defender leading to the contact. If you watch the close...

As he is a match official he will probably receive a time-based suspension from all football. This could make it harder to achieve promotion criteria. Apart from that I'm not aware of anything that would affect promotions from 7-5. For 5-4 it could affect his promotion more significantly as the...

My only problem with this is that the corner should never have been allowed to be taken with the amount of holding going on. PGMO has really made a problem for itself in this incident with its approach to holding.

It was their guidance to Level 4+ refs. My county adopted the same approach.

The FA's guidance that the Captain's Only Protocol should not use a visible signal has made it really impractical. By the time you've told everyone you'd already be surrounded.

The finger movement as they brush the ball is the conclusive evidence. The change in ball trajectory further supports. This is one of the rare occasions when I think VAR would have benefited from taking a bit more time and examining more angles. Some of the earlier posts in this thread discuss...

Are they perhaps suggesting that the FK offence is PIADM (i.e. an opponent can't reasonably challenge during these kinds of acrobatics for fear of injuring one of the attackers).