Recent content by RyantheRef

"That right doesn't exist. I'll be looking for the transfer tomorrow. Good night."

Yeah I would not treat them as team officials unless they were noted as such on the team sheet. In this case, I would ask for the flag back and discharge them from their duty.

The question is not about whether he spotted it, it's about the directive given to officials. Are they told in all goal scenarios to delay blowing the whistle until the play is complete so as to avoid an error that cannot be fixed? You can always disallow a bad goal, but you can't award a goal...

Had I been a supporter, and paid for a ticket, I would have had half a mind to confront the owner and get my money back.

My understanding is that charges have been filed against the club president, and he is currently in custody. As for what the TFF could do, they could absolutely ban the president for life, and remove his ability to have any association with sanctioned football in the country -- that would...

Each of my pre-match conversations are different because they usually depend on the teams involved. I talk about what I know of their tactics, ask my team to do the same, and then about how we are going to control the controllables and be prepared for the unexpected.

If there is only one minute left, and the lads are having a go for 30-40 seconds, you're abandoning a match with 20 seconds left. Continue to try to gain control, and blow for full time at full time.

I recall there being warning of a slippery slope of the gulf between parks football and the professional game widening even further when VAR was being discussed. It was dismissed, of course, by the majority of people.

I disagree that this is gone in VAR. What VAR does is calls to attention errors in fact which caused the referee to adopt an opinion of an event which does not align with the reality of what occurred. The problem is when VAR is not used this way. Where the referee has made a decision because of...

The attacker initiates contact with the keeper; book him.

This will actually be more challenging for us, as officials, to determine offside.

I would be less inclined to see if the GK is off his line and more inclined to ensure that the shooter doesn't commit an offense.

If they had enough that day, perhaps you should have been the one to relieve them of their pent-up stress and sent them to the showers.

That sounds like a him problem. IMO, send him off and report it. Perhaps the kids' parents will inquire with the club as to why their children play for a man who puts the opportunity of their children to play at risk by behaving in this way when he has no other adults on the bench with him.

Slow-mo is valuable for determining many of the considerations for SFP like point of contact, and it helps to determine the body shape of the guilty party at the time of the contact. IMO, slow-motion replays should be used in conjunction with real-time in order to asses all of the considerations...