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Some leagues I’m on list referees by level at the start of the season. Admittedly doesn’t account for mid season promotions but might be an (imperfect) option?

On what grounds are you showing the keeper a red card ? No obvious goalscoring opportunity has been denied here, which is the only handball offence that a goalkeeper could be sent off for.

I can see the point you’re trying to make here and there’s merit in the question. I think the three month gap though works in his favour. Many games since, and time enough for him to have revisited and reviewed that day and make positive changes? A return trip within a month would...

Keith Hackett strikes me as a bitter man, who seems to have it in for Howard Webb regardless of what happens. Although he’s likely making money from being perpetually angry as is the current vogue.

I do. It’s a psychological thing which is why I used the boy who cried wolf analogy. Rolling is subconsciously associated with lesser fouls. The flipside of this is that not moving causes a moment of reflection, especially as it happens less often. The rarer something is, or the less common an...

I can’t upload a video but on the Match of the day highlights he grabs his leg (understandably) but rolls from side to side for several seconds. The point remains - players at every club do this after minor contact, although and on this occasion it’s indisputably more than that. But doing so...

The second red card is right for me. The speed and intensity he comes in at, is a factor especially when his arm is raised. On the highlights on ITV the reverse angle is telling too as the elbow is definitely locked and out as he goes flying though the challenge. Chris Wilder looking for...

Hard to see from the TV real time, live so can understand it and I think therefore that we’re firmly in “on field call stands” territory on this one. Had it been red on field, it’s not being overturned. Doku’s reaction plays a part here. Boy who cried wolf scenario writ large. Rolls around...

“Don’t tell them your name Clarke!” Sub error!! Sub error!! Sub error!! Don’t let them know we played a player under a SEVEN game suspension too! https://www.efl.com/news/2026/january/16/efl-statement--swindon-town-football-club/

A deliberate and petulant trip, low level of force in it. Disclaimer: A question was asked (2 actually) of “how” and I’m answering them. Not saying I agree with it.

Schrödinger reference was because it could be both DOGSO and not DOGSO at the same time. Never going to convince everyone of either argument.

Ha ha. It’s actually a shortened version of a theoretical discussion with myself and where I came out on it. Ultimately I put myself in that situation - I need to make an immediate call, what am I doing? The clinchers - attacker appealing for handball and the guilty look of the keeper as he...

I can’t call DOGSO on that. He fumbles and regathers almost immediately, gambling he can do so before it’s out of the penalty area. Physics means he can’t do so. And his body is always between the attacker and the ball. I can’t take him out of the equation because he has created any...

Tie finished 3-3 so they swapped one shooting match for another.

Two fowls occur at the same time. What is the appropriate action?

Home team goalkeeper took a goal kick, and away defenders have pushed up to halfway as all the kicks have been landing short. This left a home attacker all on his own between them and the goal. Ball clears everyone, one bounce to the attacker now one on one with the goalkeeper. He takes a...

That’s also a fair outcome I did consider if we think it’s taken incorrectly. I went down the route of not an attempt to throw the ball in at all.

Throw in to white as the restart. 😏 Ball hadn’t gone behind his head at any stage on that video, so it’s a deliberate act of violent conduct when the ball is out of play. But that’s being obtuse - direct free kick, nobody really complains as they’re still in WTF mode

Whilst it’s true that there are none so blind as those who will not see, let’s keep this civil and not allow it to escalate. 🙂

Totally understand the complexity argument. But in the last 5 ties I’ve done it’s been 16-2 (yesterday), 11-0, 6-0, 10-0 and 3-0. Only the last was competitive. In my CFA - Berks and Bucks - at least given it’s such a wide geographic area I think splitting into two levels would be useful. Like...