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“Doing the course does not adequately prepare” everyone is a better way of describing it. When I completed my course I had played, coached, been married, divorced and married again plus around 20 years of policing so was more than adequately prepared to referee open age grassroots football.

I get that but can’t get my head around the comparison between the two challenges and the resulting decision. The game is full of contact incidents that go unpunished. I know I’m in a minority here but I just don’t see it as a foul, I wouldn’t have given it in real time and although the majority...

Do any of the referees on here feel that the foot on foot contact on Iwobi in the run up to the Chelsea penalty also reached the threshold of a careless challenge? And if not why not?

Did I see 2 challenges with foot on foot contact in the run up to the penalty award?

But did he put his foot on top of his opponents or did the opponent put his underneath? And if it was so textbook as you describe it was it missed in real time by an official with an unobstructed view from around 6m away?

Not for me either Fulham player on the turn and the Chelsea player making the challenge.

And me

Interestingly I delivered a WF Referees Course last week and when we covered player management I made mention of the Sheff Utd incident. Unanimous decision when asked what would then have done as a Referee (we seldom have assistants in WF) was a red card. The discussion progressed and it was...

Doh 🫣

Is it possible that for the second incident , Refs shouting down the comms, “ Got them both pulling at each other there” ( or something similar) so no clear and obvious error for VAR to intervene?

So is your intention to carry out a Ted Roger’s impression every time a gk has possession of the ball?

Are we losing sight of the squirrel here? Why was this law change introduced do we feel? To stop goalkeepers clearly wasting time or To ensure every goalkeeper in possession of the ball gets it back into play within 8 seconds every single time they are in possession of the ball? I would wager...

I’m referring to the group of 4 with a 5th player laid on the floor behind them. I think every referee would agree that’s a wall. But did the 3 other players away from this group constitute being a wall? but was is a wall?

Clearly the player was within 1m of the main wall defending the goal and the resulting decision was correct. Changing the scenario slightly. What if the player had remained in their original position. Would the 3 Chelsea players stood in a line but not formed up shoulder to shoulder constitute...

I never thought about that, thanks. I obviously concentrated too much on the players original position in amongst three very loosely connected Chelsea players. The on field Ref obviously doing the same 🫣

That’s not what I was referring too. I stated that there was a wall covering the other post.

Thoughts on the disallowed Eze ‘goal’ for Palace against Chelsea? It appears that after a VAR intervention that the goal was disallowed for a Palace player being within 1m of a Chelsea ‘wall’. Now it didn’t look like a wall to me but 3 players stood in a line with a clear gap between one...

That was certainly the guidance given on the county new laws update we were given last week.

Attended an EFL league 2 game yesterday, didn’t even notice the referee commence a countdown, however both keepers were quite proactive at getting the ball back in play quickly. On another time wasting note the away team took an absolute age on every attacking throw-in in the final...

The guidance I was provided by our RDO was clear and anyone present at this LOTG update should not have interpreted the guidance in anyway that would result in penalising the gk in that instance.