Recent content by Little Derek

Can anyone please tell me what "Left Left Left" is in the world of refereeing please. I was listening to the refs world podcast and they said they'd be explaining it, then they ran out of time and said they were recording the next episode straight away and all would be explained in the next...

Yesterday I had a very tricky one, a player was through 1 on 1, the keeper came out and the player went over the top of him, the ball stayed in play, I didn't think the keeper touched him, I didn't think the striker dived, just jumped to avoid contact but couldn't stay on his feet to finish. Cue...

What do you guys do, or advise to do when you hear shouts like I did today, such as "We're playing against 12 here" or other similar shouts, which are indirectly towards you as the referee?

Page 26 says: the referee stops the match if, in his opinion, a player is seriously injured and ensures that he is removed from the field of play. An injured player may only return to the field of play after the match has restarted. Thanks for bringing that to my attention Pankaye, I wish...

They were adults. My worry is that it may come back to me, as in most cases being a referee, it's one persons word against many, often angry team mates. At least in asking him to leave and bringing it to the managers attention I have a bit of comeback rather than not having any back up should...

I was refereeing at a local 5 aside league last night, it's FA affiliated, anyway, blue goal keeper came off worse in a 50/50 but tried to run the foot injury off. After a few minutes he was no better and had to lean on the post to support himself. When it came to taking a goalies ball he said...

Hi, I'm Chris, I'm a level 7 referee regeistered with a few leagues in the North West, see my profile for more information. I want to do this job to the best of my ability and not let players take advantage of me or think that they can get away with anything outside the laws of the game. I want...

I, I'm new, I've been reading posts for a whole but this is the first time I've joined in. I'll go back and introduce myself shortly. In my open age game last Sunday I gave an offside, It was clear that the striker that was offside was frustrated and was thinking of kicking the ball away. He was...