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Do they have comms kit in this match? If so the communication should have been vocalised before play was ever stopped to allow the assistant to help the ref with the decision as the ref must have known he didn't have the best viewing angle. I feel that if the ref had delayed the whistle to...

Try your best to wait and see where the ball goes but 9/10 times I'd be looking to award the penalty straight away. Two questions you should be asking yourself: Would you rather miss a penalty in anticipation of an advantage that never happens? Would you rather the ball went in the net after...

Not enough 2-way understanding in football these days between players and referees. I would suggest that both players AND referees are guilty for this. Referees (especially inexperienced ones) are too zealous to display authority over players to the point that the most minor backchat results in...

"an indirect free kick is also awarded to the opposing team if, in the opinion of the referee, a player: commits any other offence, not previously mentioned in law 12 or which play is stopped to caution or send off a player" If you're giving red there it has to be a dropped ball. This is a...

I wouldn't say that was a deliberate trick to circumvent the law. But I do think that there should be more clarification on this in the laws. I would deem a trick to be while in possession of the ball, a player flicks the ball up to his head for example and heads it to the keeper. The situation...

Yeah having read it again you would either have to give penalty or retake depending on where the kick was taken from. If it was taken inside the box then the ball is not back in play until it leave the penalty area so it would be a retake. Otherwise penalty but definitely no red card as he...

If you've stopped play for any reason then you have to restart play with the restart following the reason for the stoppage in play regardless of what goes on after the play has stopped. So in this incident you would have to restart with the original IDFK

I laughed pretty hard at this guy's dramatic reaction I have to say. On a serious note, the last couple of weeks should have been a lesson to everyone when checking the nets. We saw the goal Bayer Leverkusen scored which went through the side netting, which was refereed by a very experienced...

Reasons to call a game off when it comes to water on the pitch: 1. Not Safe for players 2. Hard/Impossible to distinguish field markings due to lying water. As for the first point, if there are areas of the pitch where the ball will completely stop in the water and there is no means of having...

I was thinking that it could be beneficial for reports and justifications of your actions after the match. Especially if an appeal came out over an issue of Abusive language, this is the thinking that I am getting for the product. The referee after all has no protection or any way of backing his...

Perhaps delaying the restart of play if it was a particularly long one. Or even USB for an inflammatory gesture if it was a burning pee, if that was the case then I'd advise the guy to go and get it checked out.

U16 School league game from a couple of years ago: Away team is losing 4-1 with only a couple of minutes to go and the away goalkeeper is getting increasingly frustrated with the standard of defending from his team. I award a free kick to the home team about 20 yards from goal and the ball runs...

What makes refereeing on a Sunday worthwhile? When you manage to turn up and you're not hungover that sometimes helps. Only joking. But needless to say I don't do Sunday games anymore :)

Yeah I agree on the muted reaction that just an ear bending for the short yanker is enough. But if a flared reaction came about them you would probably have to caution for unsporting behavior. Also, any chance that you could caution the other player for ungentlemanly conduct? I mean after all...

http://www.theladbible.com/media/garyrobertslad Obviously a hilarious incident, but assuming we want to be professional about it, what do you do about this? I'm literally speechless from a refereeing point of view.

Number 1 - The ball must leave the penalty area to be in play, so if the ball does not leave the penalty area but goes into the net, then the goal cannot stand and it must be retaken. However if the ball leaves the penalty area, comes back and the goalkeeper saves it, then it must be an indirect...

That's quite alright Quinn, your input is appreciated. The dynamic stretches include repeated movements associated with refereeing games e. backwards, sideways, crossovers etc. The order between static stretching and dynamics stretching is just a preference to what makes me feel looser, but I...

The guide is good. The only area I was foggy on was what constitutes deflection rather than a deliberately played ball by a defender, but this helps a lot. I'm sure in practice the new mental approach to judging an offside will take some getting used to but I'm sure it will stick once we all...

So for the new season the only major rule change apart from the reference to goal line technology is the alteration to Law 11, offside. There has been an abbreviation to the "interfering with an opponent" infringement from making moves or gestures which deceive or distract the opponent...

Very simple for me: -4 minutes running high intensity to get heart rate up -Full set of static stretches -Full set of dynamic stretches and movements -Couple of sprints 10-12 minutes to complete and back inside to do admin.