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I wouldn't worry about it. Sounds like you played an excellent advantage which lead to a goal and you should be proud of it. It is difficult to be too critical when you have no ARs, especially when you have simultaneously been distracted by another incident (the foul). The player's behaviour is...

Clear stamping action with the sole of his foot endangering safety, in my opinion clearly knew what he was doing, SFP all day long. Reaction is for the cameras and the media, just like 90% of all of his actions. But that is my slightly biased opinion. Always been cynical about Beckham. Edited...

I bet the next time those 2 meet will be a tasty encounter.

Attacking third - unless the player's hand is down by his side and there is absolutely nothing he can do to avoid handling the ball, give the foul. Manage the game. You should be thinking about the consequences of not giving the free kick (in this case a coach removal and several "cheap"...

Started reading this thread and ordered The Art of Refereeing and Seeing Red off Amazon. The website has a good selection of some of the books people have said they want on this thread if anyone wants to check the site out.

Cannot be a penalty as it's not a direct free kick offence as such. I'd go for DOGSO and IDFK (see last point of page 37 of LotG). Dropped ball is also easy to sell as technically the game should be stopped immediately should the goal posts become displaced. However, due to the nature of the...

I wish warning a manager was that easy...quite an entertaining watch though.

I like the website actually, the changes coming in soon will make it really useful. The one issue I have is with making notes on your own games, which may or may not be different from how an observer/assessor would see things. Perhaps a feature to add files to the fixtures e.g assessors...

When you think about it, the only reason the AR comes to the halfway line is to carry out the substitution procedure correctly making sure the new player enters at the halfway line as well as check equipment, name number etc. especially since he will usually be closer than the referee in most...

One of the specific lessons taught to me when I was originally going through referee classes was that a goalkeeper CANNOT be shown a straight RC for handling the ball inside his box to concede an indirect free kick regardless of the circumstances. I can't remember the specific reason for it...

There are some things in the LotG that no one wants or expects you to enforce unless it is so blatantly obvious that you are given little option, and to enforce these things in any other circumstance just causes yourself problems. Examples from the top of my head would be: - Goalkeeper holding...

I would stop the game for IDFK and yellow for USB if it was a really obvious shout to distract an opponent and was hard to argue with. Shout like "mine" etc. I would say are perfectly legal, whereas very loud vocal infringement directed at a player as a means of distraction should be penalised...

Morrison's control of the ball in the DOGSO was an issue, but you have to ask yourself, did he look like he had bad control because he was being held back? Something that's really hard to tell in a lot of those circumstances.

Hi Graeme, new site looks great, only problem is that I haven't logged in for months and can't seem to recover my login details. Is there any type of recovery system you could offer?

Also forgot to mention correctly disallowed goal for Wales in the second half for a joint foul by King and WIlliams on McGregor before the ball was bundled into the net.

First of all, I was at this game which turned out to be quite an unpredictable encounter and I suppose when you factor out all the misery for myself it was an entertaining game. I thought I would start a thread on this. Despite the decision to send off Robert Snodgrass being the key moment in...

Watching other more experienced guys in the middle when you're on the line is good too. You pick up a lot of do's and don'ts and things that you can add to your game. Enjoy!

A step up is always am eye opener and a steep learning curve. Apply what you've learned in terms of awareness and fitness to your next games, until you're 100% ready to tackle that level again.

We're all talking about the referee not bottling it here, but let's remember. Mr. Cakir is one of FIFA's most highly rated officials in the ranks of the 24 elite referees AND he referees domestically in Turkey, which must be one of the most hostile countries a referee could ever do his job in...

Q: How can you tell a good refereeing decision? A: When Andy Townsend disagrees with it. Sorry I couldn't resist :p