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@Kent Ref I’m sorry to hear you were assaulted. I had a similar incident earlier this year where both teams denied a player shoved and grabbed me. It ended up with the player getting off with no punishment and just an £80 fine for the team. I was even warned during the disciplinary hearing...

Hit a new personal best today with 10 yellows, one non-playing caution and a red... all on Easter Sunday. Quite an enjoyable one despite the cards. Cup game, 3-3 at the end of 90, ending 7-3 after extra time to the home team who were a couple of divisions below but on average 10 years younger...

i basically had the same thing happen to me in January. Player got off scot free as I didn’t get a name and abandoned for my own safety. Club fined £80

There are teams in one of my leagues with as many as 12 league fixtures and up to 4 cup games left… going to be a struggle! Weather has been dreadful here. 3 of my 4 matches cancelled this week including a cup final and cup semi. Fingers crossed for some sun

Same applies to referees moving county... I moved house last year and changed county affiliation, but all my shirts have my old county FA badge on. No eyelids batted yet! If the new country FA want me to wear their badge they are welcome to buy me a new shirt... otherwise it'll have to wait...

Same as you Big Cat. I’m over 400 middles now and I can only recall 2 reds for SFP in that time, although perhaps there have been more. I’ve had about 20 middles this season with 4 reds. VC: 2 DOGSO: 1 OFFINABUS: 1 And three of those reds were for the same team in the same match!

I’ve only had to do this once but it was this season. Club linesman (a sub) was making a series of digs at the opposition striker - too loud to ignore. I told the manager and captain he needed to be replaced and they were happy to do so, although the sub himself ended up with a caution in the end

In the context of easy to sell reds, I’d argue that some SFPs can be harder to explain at a lower level if you’re a new ref. Not the blindingly obvious though.

It may surprise you but reds are often ‘easier’ to give than yellows. VC, OFFINABUS, egregious SFP and spitting (although I’m yet to encounter the latter) are such nailed-on reds that you won’t feel guilty or controversial in sending the offender for an early bath. The exceptions to this...

A level 7 in my local RA has been asked to referee a friendly: A step 6 (2nd tier of a supply league) team v a step 7 team. He’s been contacted by the step 7 club rather than through an official apppintment. It’s sparked a bit of debate on WhatsApp so I was curious what anyone else thought...

Rolling ball all day

I think it’s right to caution given the circumstances and to negate a mass brawl or the like… But what actually is the caution for here in law? Surely it cant be a stopping a promising attack… it’s either DOGSO if the attacker was going to get the ball, or just a plain handball + no caution if...

Not to me personally, think it sounds quite relatable in terms of player behaviour (particularly in the area in which he referees, which I’ve dabbled in)

I’m with James on this one, I don’t see a foul either way.

As James said, it’s where you draw the line personally. If you’re happy with it, I’m with you. For myself, I’d be getting the captain and keeper together for a chat. Next time anyone on that team crosses the line, they’re in the bin

I’ve known refs who make a habit at grassroots levels of getting packed up etc after a match on the pitch just in case someone who decides to have a pop post-game can be dismissed with a red

For me it’s a red, I’m not fussed with the whens and whereabouts of someone behaving like that towards me. But it’s hard to know how to react the first time you hear something like that at the end of the game and it comes down to where you draw the line between a yellow (dissent or USB) and...

I agree to an extent that it’s not ideal to be doing your first line in a cup semi final… but they’re quite hard to come by for level 7s other than the sharp end of league cups. And I imagine most ref secs would rather have anyone higher than that doing middles. Not an easy solution. If this is...

This is worth a go. It was a long time ago, but I passed the course when I was 13 and then started refereeing in practice when I was 14. With my dad alongside me who couldn’t give a hoot about football.

My CFA last month released the total number of sin bins issued so far this season… it turns I’ve given more than 5% of the county’s sin bins so I reckon they’re not being used as much as they could be round here! I like sin bins although: - The constant queries of how long of the 10mins is left...