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Active playing time is any time where the watch isn't stopped/where there's a delay that will result in time being added at the end of the half. Watch a rugby game on TV - the timer for a sin bin will continue to count down even if the ball goes out of play or the referee stops play. It's only...

There is a huge amount of difference between The FA/County FAs providing funding to run additional referee courses for BAME individuals at a discount, and 'making "whites" pay more'. Your ridiculous whataboutism is much like someone else's on this thread. As for you... you signed up to this...

May 25 was before the part quoted in that post was removed from the LotG. As of the start of this season it doesn't matter where it's going - parrying the ball no longer counts as the goalkeeper being in control of the ball anymore, even if it's not a save.

Great spot - I hadn't actually realised they'd removed that part until now! So any parry, even if not a save, doesn't count as the goalkeeper having control of the ball, and therefore doesn't count as releasing it, meaning this... ...is no longer an offence.

You've beaten me to it! Yes, as @socal lurker has pointed out, the watch isn't stopped every time the ball goes out of play, only if there is a delay that would mean adding time at the end of the half - the same logic applies for sin bin timings.

You don't agree that there should be a proportional number of BAME referees? 🤔

2021 census shows 18% of English and Welsh population is BAME. Given that Wales is 90.6% white British in that census, the percentage of BAME individuals in England is higher than that 18%. Yet as per the linked document in the above post, less than 11% of referees in England are BAME...

It's different now though, as for any standard dismissal there is no report to be written, just the name, club, and sending off code. Anything outside of that sending off offence should be reported using an extraordinary report. The OP doesn't specify whether the VC or OFFINABUS occurred first...

I reckon I've probably had as many, if not more, OFFINABUS reds for language directed towards opponents (and on at least one occasion a teammate) than I have for comments made towards me. I'm going to have to look back and work it out now... 😂 EDIT: Eight reds for OFFINABUS directed towards me...

Wouldn't be surprised if comms get passed down to L3s to use on Step 3/4 games at some point in the future, but I doubt it'll be any time soon. At least The FA would be able to provide the training to L4s when they're promoted. As for officials at lower levels being able to buy their own -...

Hmm... I'm leaning towards agreeing that you can't give a further IDFK here. Technically, the FRD offence is committed at the moment the free kick is taken and the opponent is intentionally less than 10 yards from it. The goalkeeper then deliberately preventing the free kick from reaching its...

Of course it's a choice for us. The non-offending team would benefit from allowing play to continue instead of retaking the free kick, due to the DOGSO offence committed by the goalkeeper. That's literally what the law is saying you can do.

Is it not in the non-offending team's advantage to punish the subsequent offence and the DOGSO?

Would depend entirely on how you as the referee saw the situation - if the attacker has chosen to take a quick free kick with the goalkeeper closer than 10 yards, and you think the keeper has just successfully intercepted the quick free kick, then there's no offence. If you see it as the...

No.

If the home team don't have another home game before Remembrance Sunday they may well be looking to have a minute's silence this weekend. Probably best to discuss with both sides at the teamsheet exchange.

It does not.

Oh mention that too - if it's true he's a registered referee hopefully he'll get a harsher punishment!

This is incorrect:

Non-playing red card report to cover the send off for two cautions, then an extraordinary report to cover the abusive comment after the red, and re-entering the FoP after the final whistle.