Recent content by JamesRef

Thank you guys. Very helpful, I'll let you know how it goes!

Hi all, I've been allocated a league cup final and I'm in the middle. One of my first "big" fixtures, so I'm pretty chuffed. I've been assigned two official ARs for this. My question is: what is the procedure for arriving at a game like this? I've only dealt with CAR's, what's do I do...

Thanks for your help. Will bear these points in mind for future reference.

Thanks for the reply- made me chuckle a bit looking back on things. Our league only has 8 qualified referees, so as you can imagine we are streched quite thin. I will follow this up with my RDO and ask for support in future "high-stake" matches.

Thanks for your response- I have been tutored. But everything all happened at once, and was a bit of a shock. I will bear this info for next time. As you've said, next time i will be able to deal with this better

Hi, Thanks for your response. I had signalled the defensive FK first, then ran over. Also- Yes. It was all of them- I couldn't quite believe it as well...

So let me set the scene. I'm officiating a semi-final cup game, U13s. Team A (Home) and Team B (Away). The venue used to be an old golf club- so I was told underneath the pitch it was concrete (a driving range). You couldn't feel it underneath your feet but I'm sure if you tried hard enough you...