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By not being specific you gain some wriggle room- there will always be some smart Alec who hears your 6 minutes left and sets there expectations by it- saying last 10 or about 5 left gives you options. I am more than confident to handle time and stoppages, I just don't force myself down a...

If it's definitely 50/50 and both are the aggressors , caution both but go defensive free kick. Safe refereeing, better to argue over a defensive free kick than a goal scored from it . Same goes with corner decisions where you are not sure or where both players have contacted the ball at the...

the moving the ball forward 10 yards for dissent/delaying etc has been tried and was quickly abandoned.

The referee won't care about club marks, you should never referee with an eye on them Whilst the ref may well have got it wrong, he is the ref. Put yourself in his shoes

I do like Hockey's answer, two greens= yellow & sin bin, another yellow and it's red. The players know where they stand. They get an opportunity to correct behaviour before it's starts costing them.

Problem with club lines who inform you that they too are a referee are mostly telling lies or at a stretch attended a taster session 10 years ago. We have a chap locally who tells the young refs he is a level 4. Trouble is we know all the L3,4 & 5'd and he ain't one. It's an attempt to...

My fear of VAR sanitising the game was clearly misplaced. Seems to open even more cans of worms!

Was it an FA affiliated tournament. I will only ref on affiliated/sanctioned games. If the organisers can pick and choose the laws- no thanks

Yes, if a team appears to be targeting a particular player- you would use the stepped approach as early as you can - let the captain know you are aware of what appears to be going on and that you are close to cautioning ( remember we shouldn't say we will caution the next one- if it innocuous...

Yes- it is inconclusive - if the play we see is the same as the VAR

The asking 'how long left ' question is an interesting one. Handle this badly and your match control can go out of the window very quickly ( bitter experience). You are being asked for a myriad of reasons and to assume it's about just winding you up is a mistake. I will always answer politely...

First one looked offside and the ref should have gone with AR without using VAR Second one , onside and good use of VAR. Can only go red if you have seen impact. Even VAR is inconclusive, the offended player seemed to make a remarkable recovery. I'd go with a yellow for the challenge on the...

You won't get much criticism on here for the actions you took. We hold our impartiality on integrity in high esteem. Players who dance with words about us cheating will get short thrift. If I have had a bad day they are likely to see rouge, though in most cases it's a yellow and a caution about...

The other one to think about is the persistent fouling of one or two particular players. Happens where a team identifies their biggest threat and tries to knock them out of the game by sharing the fouls amongst themselves.

If they had both fallen to the ground like tantruming four year olds would they both have been sent off. Don't get me wrong Fellaina is a first class tool and deserved his red for crass stupidity. Aguero goes down quicker than a cheap whore! It wasn't a Zidane head butt now, was it?

The discipline report will have been processed via whole game at the same time as the misconduct. It might just be that the FA have jumped on this bit first and the discipline will follow. It seems odd that the ref puts the misconduct in but not the cards.

Your club will no doubt be charged with failing to control, the spectator handed a banning order (if you name him or if you don't there may be further charges) The referee will have dented any promotion chances and potentially lead to a suspension.

Had the invite but am away in Spain so won't be available to kennel the whippets and hang the caps up

I think the moral of the thread is not to drop the ref into the mire over a substitution. Do it right first time.

No, you let them continue. Trying to get them to reverse and do it properly could only lead to control issues, especially if one of them is injured.