Recent content by DavidObs

Sounds like you’ve been taking ideas from Sweet with the introduction of Ballroom Blitz and Manfred Mann with 5-4-3-2-1! There has been too much plagiarism going around at the moment! 😂 😂

If it was at the same meeting I was at the reply was provided by a L2 Referee. I know where L2/RDO were coming from. However, on IFABs Q&A page - A player appears to take a throw-in but suddenly leaves the ball to a team-mate. What action does the referee take? If the team is deliberately...

I have seen 4 games now and haven’t seen any confusion from players. Yes, it can be a bit of the pain having to use the whistle when it was usually the case to use sparingly, but it has produced the desired outcome of compliance. Having said that if a game has neutral Assistants, there are...

20-30 seconds and longer than the Scottish clip shown within these threads.

Just been watching the York v Crawley game. Player grounded for at least 10 seconds - no caution to the offender/no other exceptions in point - remained on the FoP & re-start delayed! Hopefully I missed something!

Law 5.3 is quite specific whereby other than the exceptions “ …stops play only if a player is seriously injured and ensures that the player is removed from the field of play. An injured player may not be treated on the field of play and, where an injury results in play being stopped or the...

I’m not so sure about that. For 4 years from qualifying I had no club Lino’s (not a requirement under competition rules). However, after moving 150 miles North and therefore a different county, their regulations was that clubs had to provide Assistants. I found it to be refreshing even though I...

You are probably right with your final para. As to the FIFA President, when he was at UEFA people probably thought he had some integrity at this point, but power, money & Trump appears to have turned his head. Wenger has some credit in the integrity department built over many years, though it...

Now he will have to see if he can remain in post though it does need someone to stand against him and not many if any are putting their hand up at the moment.

It’s also happened for one L2 to L1 (that I know of), but as you say, very rare, but this is the opportunity that can arise (albeit rare) from an Assessment Day.

That is possible, though as a country we can be smarter & governments should be tougher on water companies. The government/water companies could invest in desalination plants and clubs could apply to the PL foundation for grants for sprinkler systems and even have their own water tanks (which...

A shame. Even Grantham Town v Peterborough Sports was postponed earlier this week. Hopefully with some rain forecasted for next week things may improve.

Despite all the highlighted pitfalls, at a Supply League Game I was at last Saturday, the Referee had many different scenarios involving the new Laws concerning substitutions/treatment of injury etc & all were appropriately dealt with, raising his performance both in respect of Match Control &...

By which time he/she could have stuffed 2 hammers & 2 knives down his/her socks 😂

Now seen - 12th June. I am now a Follower (following), so will be more aware in future.