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@Olivia P , you will have an FA appointed officer who is in charge of your appointments. That will all be discussed at your course, along with any other questions that you may have. It's great to see more females getting into refereeing. We don't have any down here in Cornwall (that I'm aware...

Just try and enjoy it... Make sure you listen. Good luck :)

James, I echo everything that Mr Forest says above. This should never happen, but it does. Unfortunately it was on one of your games. I'm not going to go into the incident itself or dissect your post, instead I will take a different approach. I'm yet to experience a mass-con as a referee. I've...

I hate it when I have to agree with Padders. Hate, hate, hate hate hate hate hate hate hate blommingggggg hate it!!!!!!! :wall: :p:p:D

Just putting this out there (I read the first few posts)... do you really need CAR's at U12? Surely even the older guys amongst us here can keep close enough to play at that age group? I'd say it's around 15-16 age group games where a CAR would actually be useful. Anything younger than that...

Just a couple more weeks and that's what I'll be doing :bite::sorry:

I've got three games this weekend... assistant on Saturday... playing Sunday morning then a cross-county dash to referee in the afternoon. Busy busy

I remember an observer getting in a tizzy with me this season because I've had my RN logo instead of a county logo. Once as an assistant (the other two had County badges) and one in the middle. I politely reminded the observer (who wasn't actually observing me) that I'm not a Cornwall FA...

It's stating the obvious. I'm not against anyone saying this. It's just something that I don't personally; purely because it's not an offence for a player to raise his/her arms. I've been in the game long enough to know that if a ball hits my arm/hand, it's handball (if deliberate, of course). I...

Why? Why do we have to tell the players to keep their hands down? Is it an offence to raise them? No. Is it an offence to encroach the ten yards? Yes. If players raise their arms and the ball strikes them on the arm/hand... it's handball. They know that, they don't need me to remind them. I'll...

You'll be helping them to the toilet next Rusty ;)

It's not up to me where they have their arms, they can be waving them about like madmen if they want, so long as they obviously don't contravene the lotg. If I see a bit of hand-work, I shout "no push/pull". I can't tell them to keep their hands down! I just keep it simple, they don't want a...

A phone call? The bloody lightweight. I meet up with the managers for tea and stickies the night before :cool:

To the defenders "move back to the six yard box please, I'll call you forward". Once in place, "don't move forward from here gents". To the attackers "on the whistle" As I position myself, it's a loud "it's on my whistle" and I hold it up for good measure. That's it. That's my ceremonial chat...

@GraemeS , I'm referring to the "break his legs" comment, I was assuming that you were talking about this.

If you are instructing someone to break another persons leg, and that person follows through with that action... what other word is there to describe it? It's assault! "An attack or threat of violence"

Which is what happened...

Tactical foul :rolleyes: It's not a foul... it's an assault!

The difference was between an attention getting flag and an offside flag... I took an exaggerated step onto the pitch (as per instructions). It was only my second or third line since I'd qualified. The main thing was, I'd gained the attention of the referee, who came over to me. We spoke about...

Whoopsy!