Recent content by SamSkywalker

Thank you all for your interesting input! I've just earned a promotion to the fifth step of my country's football ladder. Even though this is not a professional team, this league is in no way one of aficionados. However, getting to watch games on tv is not really easy, so one must read what...

Sorry for the long time absent, but positioning has become the bee in my bonnet recently. As all of you know, knowing the teams helps us predict or anticipate their next moves, and that can give us a couple of extra seconds to get to the other end of the field before the ball does. This brings...

Well, that has to be there for professional leagues to use it according to law. If I were you, I think I'd just give it a read every now and then but not study it in depth. At the end of the day, I don't see myself officiating with VAR in a decade, if at all.

That was actually stopped by the clarifications to the lotg they issued this season. However, some technical directors at some national FAs wanted it to be printed on the book prior to enforcing that. Said and done. If they have seen the need for such a change, it's that a number of us haven't...

Well, not only has the book to be out; it also needs to be after the date your FA decides they enter into force. Typically, it's for competitions starting on or after the 1st of June. Your RA will know better ;)

Well folks, sorry for reviving this old thread... but we finally have the outline of the modifications of the LOTG released by IFAB. Enjoy, mates! http://static-3eb8.kxcdn.com/documents/653/131333_200418_Laws_of_the_Game_2018_19_Law_Changes_explained_EN.pdf

I've gone through all the comments above, and I'm glad to see such an interesting discussion here... what a stark contrast with other places! To me, it's a soft penalty all day. What happens with soft penalties? They're penalties at the end of the day. Benatia should have known better than...

Great advice we can find in the lotg ^^

As per the lotg, you only need to use your whistle for a restart when it's a kick-off or a penalty kick, you show a card, there has been an injured player, a player has asked the ten yards, or there has been a substution. Off-side offences are dealt with an IFK, so no need to blow your whistle...

Quite an horrific scene. It deserves a post for itself, honestly. I bet some lads around here have already dealt with situations of this kind... I'm yet to live such a thing. And I honestly don't want to. I've had a couple of serious foul play challenges in adult games in my career, and none of...

Maybe this is one of the moments where extra attention is needed. I mean, emotions are running high, we're genuinely concerned about player's safety... I have the gut feeling that, where I in this situation, I'd have a hard time keeping myself calm and in control. How did you live it?

My personal experience at the leagues I officiate is quite different. He knows it's going to be no good for him, so he's likely to hide in the masses. Besides, what was making me bang my head against the wall wasn't the fact that I had a hard time getting his ID, but rather that getting his ID...

Thank you all for your input. I wish I had seen things the same way when the action happened. To be honest, I have never had such a situation before -lots of advantage goals, but never with such a dilemma. To be fair, the trailing AR was superb, as he not only did warn me that an advantage...

I'll begin by saying that I know we got it right, but things could have gone quite wrong. That's why I seek a bit of advice. Adults game, good regional division. The ARs are good friends and very good referees I can rely on, and we use communicators. It's 0-0 and just 7 minutes left on the...

Indeed, this is the very reason why we transitioned in the 90s from the four-step rule to the six-second rule. And why we no longer allow the goalkeeper to play the ball with the hands if it's the teammate who is giving the ball (unless the exceptions we all know).