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Referees are paid fees, not expenses only. Any referees grossing over £1000 are required to declare the income to HMRC. No that is not what it means. The term used is receiving 'any payment' beyond that. So all your matches would have to be on an expenses-only basis to qualify for the free check.

On the DBS 'volunteer' thing the official government line on free checks is the applicant must not 'receive any payment (except for travel and other approved out-of-pocket expenses)'. Match officials obviously do receive payments beyond that so we are either being wrongly advised or the FA has...

You pick.

They wasted the time they had to take the corner. This was very obvious from the way HT was signalled and I was happy to see it!

I don't think the key phrase 'unnaturally bigger', the actual requirement for a non-deliberate handball, is referenced at all by Collum or any of the officials actually involved in the incident!

I mentioned in your other thread that we got no kit at the WNL conference.

The only badges we were given at WNL conference last season were the league badges. The ones sold by Ref Stop are 3D raised lettering. https://www.therefstop.co.uk/product/the-fa-match-official-badge-diy/ (don't forget your discount code in the forum banner...)

The outline shape 😂

They emailed slides out last time. No kit was given out at last summer's 3W conference, only badges. However there is a new kit this season for FA referees (Nike Referee III) so I'd hope rather than expect they might get some for us. If you fail all your attempts at the fitness test then you can...

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...