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My greater concern is that the rules stipulate 20mins of extra time during the winter’s dying light. Safe to say there won’t be much injury time!

I’ve been asked to referee a schools U18 county cup match this week (asked by the school, not appointed by county FA). I haven’t refereed one before and rarely do middles for youth games. Any general advice? The online competition rules are a few years old but appears to be 40mins each way...

As was alluded to further up in the thread, there is slightly more to this than will be printed. I hope David is being supported by PGMOL as this would be such a difficult time to deal with.

Oh dear: https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/31689845/premier-league-ref-david-coote-snorts-white-powder?utm_source=sharebar_app&utm_medium=sharebar_app&utm_campaign=sharebar_app_article

Really sorry to hear about this - appalling behaviour. If you suffer the misfortune of this happening again, definitely consider abandoning. Not just for your safety but it will accentuate how poor the behaviour was when discipline comes around. Take a few days to compose yourself before the...

In the leagues I predominantly referee on, a directive is sent round this time of year reminding referees to hold a minute’s silence to mark Remembrance Day this weekend. I am not refereeing on my usual leagues this Saturday and based on how it is run (general poor administration), I imagine...

Dropped ball to the GK for me unfortunately, the net has become an outside agent essentially. Put it this way, you wouldn’t start the game if the net was inside the 6-yard box

I’d love to join mine and attend meetings but unfortunately it’s always going to be hard to attend Monday nights with work/a young family so not worth the price for me personally. Would be great if the joining fee trickled down from these millions coming down from the PL to grassroots… would...

I hope it makes a difference at a local level, but no lasting change will happen across the board unless a strike happens on a national scale - including senior officials. I’m not sure there is appetite for that at this stage until, unfortunately, a serious incident happens involving a referee...

I’ve found a lot of low level women’s games to be like this. But then also occasionally a completely nothing tackle that isn’t even a foul will cause a fair amount of outrage 🤷

Agree with this. Give yourself 2 seconds to read the room, then act as appropriate.

Back on thread… For me it’s a penalty and a red for the keeper, but can see the argument for penalising the attacker first and restarting with a free kick (still sending keeper for an early bath)

Each to their own really… for me I don’t really see the county cup as being a bigger deal than any other game, so if it’s not worth the drive then so be it

Common sense at a lower level would allow to her swap shirts with a sub - but I assume that doesn’t meet the competition rules on this instance. Could even tape over the numbers when the swap happens to give her a ‘different’ number, if being picky

I’ve had 3 vets matches in the last two seasons and issued five red cards, with one game abandoned in the dying minutes. I’ll still do them from time-to-time but they do seem to be a bit problematic! (And 2 of those were friendlies)

For me and I’m sure others, it’s travel time more than money that decides it. I have a toddler and there’s just no way my wife is going to be fine with me sodding off for 5/6 hours at this time of our lives. Thankfully I’ve found a few local teams to tide me over for the moment and have an...

Question for LOTG lovers. What would you give if the player has left the FOP, and then commits OFFINABUS, but the incoming sub is still tying his laces/having his kit checked and is yet to enter the FOP himself?

I tend to do a lot of senior ARs of late. Same as a few above really, I don’t tend to get too particular about too many standing/managers leaving the technical area unless it’s egregious or the referee has specifically asked for it to be clamped down on. My instruction when refereeing and the...

Suburban League has some teams in Surrey

Thought so! Couldn't get it to work so have just submitted it as if it was a league fixture and emailed county. First game of 24/25 complete!