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This is the end of the game. This player needs a long ban. For a referee to have to run off the FOP as he fears for his safety is scary. This isn't some local park either, he is a level 3 referee. Horrendous. The offside itself needs to be separated and looked in its own context. Its an...

Absolutely. I remember my first ever game 6 years ago. I was on the line. Literally spent an hour looking over signals on the Internet the morning before and went to watch a County gane on the Wednesday night just to watch the ARs.

Read up on your signals before the game and if you can go and watch a step 5/6 gameand watch what the ARs are doing and how they are moving etc. Look what hand they are holding the flag in and how/when that changes etc.

I listened to this live from my sunbed in Gran Canaria (sorry!). He spoke very passionately about referees and has more knowledge than anyone thought as his brother and nephew are/were referees. He even said that his brother was on the line for a cup game he was in (which presumably shouldn't...

Perfectly good question to ask. I'm afraid I didn't read the headline properly and now I see that it's at u12 level, so you shouldn't get too many issues I wouldn't have thought...

If they're actually looking at the field of play and not their phone and are within 10m of the 2nd to last defender then consider yourself lucky. Expect absolutely nothing from CARs nd if you get a good one then consider yourself lucky. They're getting £0 and 99% of the time don't want to be...

Makes sense to have such an initiative at youth football (although i doubt its the referee whoa responsible for upholding this). But at mens football, forget it

I can't think of the last Sunday League game I did where people weren't smoking weed. Just the way it is in certain parts of the country now but thankfully no dugouts so I just leave them to it. I turn up changed too so never use any of the changing rooms and therefore dont see them all smoking...

That is some of the worst defending I've ever seen!

At the Level 4 development day at the start of this season this was one of the quiz questions and the discussion after made it very clear that it is not a caution unless reckless play has occured. If a player fouls the goalkeeper then you've got the chance to caution for reckless, but most of...

Sounds like it works for you so in that respect it's great. For me that's just alot of effort! Your point about it not being personal and it being the same towards every ref is spot on. They're just spouting and whinging and unleashing some frustration. Deal with it and then forget it after the...

I've been doing Sunday League just up the road since I moved down to an area between Bath and Bristol 2 years ago and I must say that 75% of my games are an absolute dream. Yeah some of the City teams are a pain but the majority of the teams I've done have been almost perfect to referee. It's...

Alot of it comes with experience. Once you've done 100s of games it just natural becomes easier because you've experienced almost everything on multiple occasions and it all just seems a lot less of a big deal, things just seem smaller. You gain perspective. It's a ballance but I'm a big...

I dont keep a record but I imagine it's 1 in 4/5 games at step 5/6. Not given one in Sunday League for a couple of years now. Not even considered it due to a mixture of man management, knowing when things may escalate and some good luck.

If the player doesn't make contact with the ball but does with the attacker then there's every chance a penalty is awarded. If the ball has been won and no contact has been made then there is no chance a penalty is awarded. When these challenges go to VAR a large focus is whether the ball is won...

We can all look forward to another subscription and paying more to watch the PL but at least the customer isn't suffering from the monopoly SKY had when we could watch it all for much less..... Anyway, back to refereeing :)

"You're captains for a reason. If I speak to one of your players about dissent then shut them up before they earn themselves 10 minutes in the bin. Heads or tails". Something similar to that. Anything you say is a rod for your own back, I just remind them that they've been chosen as a leader...

You've pretty much summed it up correctly. It's an old myth, I was always coached from a kid that saying those things was an offence but of course it isn't. If it is a deliberate attempt to deceive then it's an IDFK and a yellow card but I've never had to give one in my almost 400 games as a...

Many moons ago it was common for alot of refs we had on Sunday mornings to place the ball on the spot and then blow the whistle after they'd taken a couple of steps to the side. They weren't in the way because the ball had to be played forward from kick off back then so you had 2 players around...

The context of any debate changes as the debate continues. You've even highlighted this in your second paragraph. I've highlighted a common occurrence which is when a defender makes no attempt to go off his feet or make any contact with the attacker at all. They've literally flicked a toe out...