Recent content by Markt

I used this on Sunday. Two teams who moan about everything - Therefore several cautions for dissent. They still didn't stop. I then had a kick in a similar position to a previous one, so I'd already moved them back where I wanted them. I therefore moved them back the same distance as before...

You were right to penalise the foul. The late challenge is a more serious offense than the offside, and when there are two offenses committed at the same time you penalise the more serious. If you'd already stopped play before the challenge came in it could well be a red card rather than a...

Ditto!

Good points, well made. That's why it's important not to start out by delaying the whistle. If you do this straight away then players think you always react to appeals and you will lose credibility. Get control of the game by blowing quickly at first before you ease off. This allows you to judge...

What did you do to offend him?

I always try to give myself some thinking time when making a decision. It's very rare you have to blow instantly, unless it's a really awful tackle, but then you don't need to think about it. Players moan that "you're going with the shout!" but the same players would moan that it was never a...

I have, although it wasn't my game! A friend had a county semi-final with a local team who were a handful. He was from out of the area and had never had the team before. I told him I'd write down the players he'd caution and what for. He didn't see my list before the game. At the end we compared...

Some players do actually know about this one, although some are confused about it. I had a player in a county league game proudly tell me "they're going to do something illegal, I'll tell you what it is afterwards" when the opponents were making a substitution while waiting to take a free kick...

It happens quite a lot, especially in cup games. We do county cup games involving teams from other counties, who aren't on the WGS for our CFA. Phone / email your CFA and they can sort it out. I've had to email caution reports so they can manually enter them. If it's happened a lot, email your...

Try not to go in expecting there to be trouble. In my experience, when I've had a tough game the next one is always easier because I'm expecting this one also to be tough. It rarely is. Try to take time before making decisions when possible. You usually have a lot more time than you think...

I have a 36 inch inside leg. This means that when I pace out the wall it's a lot closer to ten yards than most, although I'm still a bit short of the required distance. Every time I do this I get an incessant whine in my ear of "HOW FAR?!!!" Most of the time it's ok and I don't often have to...

Dangerous play is an IFK offence and does not involve any contact. As soon as there is contact it changes from an IFK to a DFK offence. My take on still 3 is that the player puts his knee in the players back / shoulder. That makes it a DFK and probably a caution. That challenge could easily be...

I can! (I'm joking. I get this roughly every other game!) Funnily enough, it always seems to be the losing team who say it! I had a team yesterday who threw away a 3-0 half time lead to lose 5-3 and that was my fault! Just because you've been called this doesn't actually mean you've had a bad...

In my game yesterday I cautioned an attacker for an incident in the goal area when the ball had gone out of play. When I'd shown the yellow card I started to run to half way for the goal kick, telling the GK loudly to "wait for the whistle please keeper" As I was approaching half way I looked...

Several years ago I was doing a line on a league cup final with a fairly large crowd including young children behind me. The side attacking wasted a good opportunity and one of their players shouted a tirade of f and c words at a team mate standing a few yards away. This was heard by the crowd...