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Can't this be considered OFFINABUS? I'm confident that that was the referees' reasoning (L3/4 officials, so I guess they know the LOTG)

Went to watch a game this morning, quite an intense and well-fought one. One player in the home side was making it particularly difficult for the referee, provoking his opponents and being at times very unsporting. About midway through the second half, when one of his teammates was chasing for...

Update: I've decided to keep going and refereeing. Throughout summer I've been through a thorough thinking process where I questioned my motivations and used the help of several friends, refereeing and non-refereeing. They made me realise that there's more to life than refereeing, and that...

What tournament is this, Morten?

1. Relaxing and enjoying refereeing more, not be obsessed with impressing everyone 2. Being more tactical in foul detection and whistling, to aid match control (or rather not lose match control, frankly said) 3. Adapting to the LOTG amendments.

It sure sounds like some good suggestions, I want to remain involved in some way or another. But a 64 this season won't have anything to say for next season, will it? My relationship to refereeing is almost comparable to a love affair or even a drug - once you get hooked, everything else...

Right now I feel so relieved that the season has come to an end. It's been a bumpy season, my first at L5 at the age of 20, and I haven't had the progress that most other new L5s have this season, even though most reports have been good, some have been outright awful. I feel that there are...