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I think its a personality thing. Some people are naturally less insistent than others

When your an assistant, during the course of the game, you receive some dissent and or abusive language from a player. When you call over the referee, how do you approach the matter? What I do in this situation, is say to the referee that I want the player cautioned/sent off for...

An interesting variation of opinion. It was a while ago that this happened, and it has (touch wood) only happened to me the once. The shot was taken from only 7 yards out so was clearly over the line by the time the defender went sliding through him. I gave a GK and didnt give a card. In...

Attacker takes a shot at goal in the defending penalty area (A good clean shot). Skyes it and the ball is way out of play when defender comes in and takes him out. Pen or no pen?

In my game today, one of the worst things that can happen in a match did. The better team (you can often tell who they are) went two goals down, due to a couple of bits of bad luck, with only ten minutes to go. Their obvious frustration then manifested itself into their entire team becoming...

Had a great evening the other night listening to Howard Webb speak for a couple of hours about his career, significant matches and his general thoughts on officiating. One of the main points that stuck with me is the fact that he said, ''Telling your assistant referees that offsides are '...

Cheers lads... I missed off my current age in the original post, which is 27. So I've been gone a while, but not too long. Hoping to kick on from here!

Just a quick intro... I started refereeing age 15 until I was 21. I then gave up to spend my time more wisely, by boozing and chasing women every weekend. As I am not as good at this as I used to be, I am now making my comeback as a referee this season.