Recent content by Roger M

My go-to boots for mud or slippery conditions are the Copa Mundials. My regular short-grass boots are the Mundial Turf boots. For turf (3g/4g pitches) my regular is the Adidas Duramo 8 (https://www.amazon.com/adidas-Performance-Mens-Duramo-Running/dp/B01N3P4ER1). Does anyone have a favorite...

Hit the 200 mark and now I’m hitting the pool. Tomorrow it’s cycling and running. My season begins in 30days.

I too use the finger grip. What’re general thoughts on the finger grip? I had one youngish referee say it looked a little silly to have a finger grip instead of a lanyard.

Can you customize the player numbers? Also, how does it handle subs who reenter the match from the subs bench—can you make them reactive after you’ve subbed them off?

Haven’t used it, but saw Dutch Ref’s post. The heat map looks real fascinating.

This to me is the correct answer. If the ball never enters the FOP, then everyone knows that fact. It would be very difficult to argue that the law allows for a flipped-around TI when the restart for a ball that never enters the FOP is a retake.

Rethrow. It can't be a foul throw if it never enters the FOP.

On this point, that's a great question. It directly relates to match control. My thinking on this: It depends on the level. If it's u12 and above, and you believe that an extra player has come on to gain an unfair advantage (for whatever reason), then you should wait for a natural stoppage and...

My understanding also is that the laws were recently modified to allow a goal to stand that had been scored with an extra player on the FOP, so long as that person did not interfere with play. That logic would agree with James Long's post above and the extra player would be removed at the next...

Great insight here. I lost sight of this. Thank you.

Whilst I am a qualified referee, I am just beginning my (hopefully) long career. This was the first time that I had ever seen this happen and I got swept up in the chaos of what I thought was a proper restart -- all yellow players over the line and outside the center circle, ball on the center...

Thank you very much for the insight. I suppose I was biased towards ensuring that Red got in the kickoff. Fair point.

Hello, I had a unique incident over this past weekend. Final of a u12 boys match and yellow scores against red in the last minute of extra time. Yellow players plus most of their substitutes then wildly celebrate on the FOP, but in their own half. Red smartly grabs the ball out of the net and...