Recent content by Redref34

Can I just add here - try to focus on the positives (I know this is really difficult) - it sounds like you handled these difficult situations very well - especially as a young referee. Comments like - ‘I appreciate your opinion but can only give what I saw’ is a really good calm response to...

Assumptions that if you were a manager you would a) know the competition rules and b) be clever enough to do this 😂

Precisely my point the other day on another post.

It is one of my instructions to my ARs now. Do not let me restart play if you think I have made a massive mistake. I would much rather explain a messy looking decision when we got to the correct conclusion then have to admit we all got a fundamental law wrong.

I just think there is still some confusion (mainly from non referee footballing folk, but also myself I am happy to admit) about a ‘stoppage in play’. Whilst I understand and have read the protocol - the situation you described still allows players to go down feigning a serious injury when the...

Yeh - I mean this was only step 7 but they didn’t have a clue and so therefore got very irate when it had to happen.

And as I understand it… if in this situation, the player decides to leave the field for treatment instead of the trainer coming in and there is no delay in play - he / she can return when ready and does not have to serve the minute.

Sorry another hypothetical situation here. Team are losing - foul happens free kick given, player needs treatment, player than has to go off for a minute because he got treatment despite the fact the team are losing and he has not wasted any time in the game? I have re-read the protocol as...

Great, thank you all.

So a player can go down and then say they don’t want treatment when the ball is out of play but play has to wait for them to get up and get in position before restarting - all of which could take at least a minute from start to finish but they don’t have to go off? Defeats the object of the new...

Thank you. And if he doesn’t get up that’s his problem..

But the team were ready to take the throw so I had to stop them from doing so to assess the player.

Thanks James. So just to clarify - Players can go down and waste time when the ball is out of play and do not have to leave for a minute even if you have to ‘stop the game from restarting’ ?

Essentially yes - I blew the whistle to stop the restart to run over to a player to assess if he needed treatment. Whole process took about 20 seconds of time - are you suggesting that we are not to make the player leave the pitch in this situation? I can’t see anything in the laws that says that.

But if I have to stop the throw in being taken to assess him - does that not constitute stopped the game? And if it doesn’t - then can’t players just circumvent the rule by going down when the ball is out of play and wasting a few seconds?