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Yea difficult decision whatever you do. The winning team manager did ask how long there was left when there was 7 minutes left so people were aware and players were asking me pretty much every minute. If I let the corner be played and they scored the winning team would be furious as I would have...

Thank you for your advice. Yes maybe it was safer to not give the foul. And yes with the corner it was definitely on my mind that if they score this then it would be massively controversial as it would have gone to penalties. Both teams knew how much time was left and the foul was by the losing...

I had a game today it was 4-3 and I added on about 3 mins to the end of the match. It was 90 + 3:20 when I gave a soft foul to the losing team on the edge of the box the ball comes in and is kicked about in the box with the losing team then clearly it for a corner. At that point it was 90 + 4:30...

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He starts to go down before hes touched

I'm not sure I'm just asking on people's view on this as if you pause it at the right moment you can see that he starts to go down before he's even touched which would annoy me as a referee but you're probably right

Haha yea definitely! I don't know how he just laughed it off. Definitely a case for a yellow card. He tried saying that it's passion and he's allowed to celebrate but definitely not by provoking your opponent. If he did it again I probably would have cautioned him. Thanks for you response!

90th minute and team A is 2-1 up they go to the corner flag and the player from team A kicks it against the team B player and it goes out of play for a throw in to team A. Player from team A then shouts "come onn" in team B's player face towering over him obviously wanting a reaction. I call...

Hi, I have heard about opportunities to referee games abroad. Has anyone ever done it and would they recommend it? What is the language barrier like? And what is the best way of going abouts getting this opportunity? Thanks

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Kick off

Yes restart was kick off.

Difficult situation as whatever I would have done someone would be unhappy. Thanks