Recent content by Robbo_6

This is absolutely appalling. He’s club president and apparently a politician as well. I hope he and the other attackers see jail time over this. https://x.com/mirrorfootball/status/1734327793226334592?s=46&t=LlVLAHEiOWFU4hOzTDNgdg

I’m genuinely in shock this wasn’t given, and this is coming from a United fan

Looked a pen to me, not sure how Jones wasn’t sent to the screen there. Though it might be my United supporting bias showing

Received my level 4 confirmation this evening. Quite chuffed about it as I thought I was one game short of the requirement!

Sad news out of France that Ligue 1 referee Johan Hamel has passed away at the young age of 42. Apparently he suffered a stroke whilst he was training. He was the VAR official in the PSG game on only Sunday. Such a sudden shock and loss to the refereeing community.

It’s quite complicated and took me a while to get my head round it too so I completely understand the confusion. The Sky pundits did explain it at HT which helped. So as the offside offence technically came first this discounts the penalty. If an offside is given it can only be overturned if a...

Frustratingly not. The foul happened before the flag went up but the offside ‘offence’ technically happened before the foul.

Because the linesman flagged it for offside beforehand. The offside nullifies the penalty shout and can’t be reviewed as no goal came from it. Had the AR kept his flag down the penalty could have been reviewed.

Most of the match was quite loud with drums/chanting throughout which we had no problem with. The issue is with music being played is that I’ve never seen that at any level before. Obviously at higher levels of the game you get goal music etc but this usually stops when play restarts

Spot on! Are they renowned for this then?

I was the senior AR on an FA Vase game today and faced a situation which I have never come across before. The travelling away fans had brought a large portable speaker with them for which they used intermittently throughout the game. They would mainly use it to start chants amongst themselves...

The shorts for this season are the same as last years. Best place to find them is the Referee Store or Ref Stop

Congrats and welcome to the wonderful world of OA football. The main thing I would say is to be confident, both in your manner and appearance, as well as when giving decisions. Players will latch on if they sense you're unexperienced and easily swayed. (It's ok to internally be nervous and...

I did not see the alleged VC, only heard it happened from the players and spectators. Without any NARs I had no one else to consult. The away team took the offending player off minutes after so its safe to say it probably happened.

Maybe a touch more lenient if it's being played in a good spirit. However I find most friendlies I do are still quite competitive and can get aggy so then cards will start coming out as per a normal league game. You don't want players seeing friendlies as 'free reign' where they can leave one on...