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It does lack force but the point of contact combined with the fact it comes from behind so the player has no opportunity to prepare for that contact makes me arrive at red.

It would be great to have a live overall merit table which has the correct formula in it on MOAS, but I don't think it's likely.

I doing so, Webb has made me look like an idiot to my brother who said 'the premier league is corrupt' and 'its clearly handball' yesterday and I vehemently disagreed 😆 He's already phoned me!

There are 2 ways a referee can be invited to assessment day. Strictly from the merit table, or by being nominated by their CORE group if they are on the national CORE program. Each CORE region may nominate one person, level 3 or 4, who they feel is ready for promotion, to attend the assessment...

I actually disagree with this. I don't know what the answer is, but it drives more public anger that 'referees are untouchable' and 'can't be criticised'.

My only issue with what Salisbury did isn't even his use of the word accidental, it's the fact he said 'the handball offence is accidental' which still implies a handball offence has taken place. A better announcement would have been 'the contact by the ball on the arm is accidental and doesn't...

Absolutely fine that you're not overly impressed with your CFA / CFA's, but some CFA's are very good. My CFA provide some excellent opportunities and are very well run.

I don't know the stipulations for calculating added time in the SPL but if it's like the EFL then 30 seconds after a goal is not added, and only the time used after 30 seconds is added. For that reason, at 7:30, it's impossible that Hearts could have scored 2 goals within the 8 minutes (unless...

I’ve had plenty of arguments about this today with football fans and other referees alike. The football fans think it’s a clear handball just because. The other referees including Darren Cann (albeit he’s not one of the ones I’ve argued with) say they think it’s handball because the game...

I didn’t see the end of the game but I saw the end of the first half. I do think Celtic’s penalty was correctly awarded, but it did look very much like a guess from the way it was awarded 😆 just my take!

There are still automatic promotions. 2-1 doesn't have assessment day this season. Nobody was promoted mid season and I'm led to believe that it will just be a selection of those performing highest. 4-3 and 3-2 still have automatic promotion spaces, but less than there would normally be...

Does this mean you're going again?

Is there any precedent for teams having successful appeals? If there is, I don't remember it. Crazy how far the NL North stretches down south, but that's nothing new and is clearly owing to how many Southern step 2 teams there are.

27th May / 28th may for L4s

I don't think anyone knows, even the FA, at the moment, but my best guess would be that it'll perhaps be on Friday 29th May, which is when the level 4-3 and 3-2 assessment days have been held and the FA can send a list out of everything in one go.