Young ref and a shirtless club lino call an offside then give a "deadball" goal

Interesting match incident uploaded by BoA.


Reminds me of the best advice I've ever given and received; just be confidently wrong.

I still do not understand why some countries persist with club linos. In my humble experience we are better off without them and the game benefits.

Everyone behaved themselves. Nice to see them strike a balance between giving the young ref a bit of stick whilst also recognizing the kid is just learning and made an understandable mistake
Generally speaking, I think it's good advice when referees are told 'they have more time than they realize' to make a decision. If anything, I can be quite slow on the whistle to avoid getting stung like this. Too slow is bad too, but it's better that dropping a massive boll0ck

santa sangria said:

I still do not understand why some countries persist with club linos. In my humble experience we are better off without them and the game benefits.

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I’m not so sure about that. For 4 years from qualifying I had no club Lino’s (not a requirement under competition rules). However, after moving 150 miles North and therefore a different county, their regulations was that clubs had to provide Assistants. I found it to be refreshing even though I had games where there were challenges.

Don’t mind a club lino. I’ll ignore them all the same.

I had a similar incident to this in my first season (albeit in a youth game). Ironically my life would have been easier if I'd just thrown the LOTG out of the window and given the goal.