Recent content by HoofItYouDonkey

Yes, that's something I am considering.

After more than 10 years and 300+ games, yesterday was my last. A mixture of abuse, and no longer being a good enough referee prompted me to hang my whistle up. No going back, shirts and boots in the bin. The golf course now beckons.

Definitely accidental. I didn't realise the law had changed and 'leads to a goal' is no longer there.

Having seen the two incidents, there is no doubt that the referee got them both wrong. I don't understand why VAR did not review the penalty, and the referee has bottled the second yellow for Milner because of where he was. It's difficult, but referees are paid to make the tough decisions at...

Admittedly my mum's a Saints fan, but that's a clear foul by Walker, I would love to know why John Moss changed his mind.

I think many referees of an age, like me have had a reboot. I've been involved in football as player/manager/referee for 55 years. I've always done it. The lockdown has given people the opportunity to question why we do it and for some the answer is not to do it any more. it's hard to see how...

In many ways, Nick Dunn's letter, who I know from my time in Kent, relates with the problem with no vestige of a solution. Clubs as a whole need to be sanctioned. Receiving verbal abuse on social media, suspend the club for a month from all forms of football. Three red cards for a team in a...

I always tell the captains at coin toss that abuse to the club AR's is the same as abuse to me and will be treated as such.

I am a grassroots referee in Surrey and am in two minds as to whether to continue. I'm 62 now, and the pandemic and absence of football has somewhat weaned me off the game. I have many other pursuits that I could now follow at the weekend, and there is a danger that I am just refereeing because...

Holy smoke! Someone should have spotted it!

Yes, you are talking about the box in the right hand corner. Thanks. That's cleared it up. So you can caution someone as a YC for dissent same as USB in the example I used in the OP?

Thanks, I use this

Two SB's = he can be substituted?

Yellow for what? Dissent? Surely another sin bin so he can be substituted??

So in summary, just 10 minutes wait until the sub can come on.