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Although it was published a long time ago, https://footballsouthcoast.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2019/10/Fitness-for-Refereeing.pdf may be helpful.

But you thought @Archer was going to pay for it(?)

The list of match officials is on the FIFA website. Appointments to each game are usually made two or three days before the game.

Did you mean defenders blocking attackers is fair? If that happens, a penalty can be awarded, of course, if it continues with the ball in play. I think that's Collina's point.

The updated advice would recognise the need to check any injured player's needs, then go left and neutral.

Better to use an internal line rather than a boundary line, IMHO

Has anyone told Rachel from Accounts? 🤣

The average time for Level 3-6 Observer Reports to reach MOAS was just over two days in the season just finishing, pretty good as many are in full time employment. Interesting to compare the fees received during the season with the cost at 45p per mile (HMRC limit) - as I operate within a...

Correct - Law 12 covers this

@ARF has joined @Archer in the brevity camp😁

To update your knowledge of the method used in England, this is the current process: 1) The applicant registers online, and is given access to a 5-section Laws of the Game online training programme. At each stage, an exam completes the section, and only after 100% is achieved can the next stage...

LOTG: The whistle is needed to: start play (first and second half of normal play and extra time), after a goal stop play: for a free kick or penalty kick if the match is suspended or abandoned at the end of each half

This has been another one-word answer in this thread, brought to you by @Archer😁

Just to clarify, @LCCE, have you first hand experience of the current method of training new referees in England? The answer would help those of us in a position to respond constructively. Thanks in advance.

I heard that referees are paid a lot🎣 and won a bet with myself as to who would comment first🤣