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I get what you are saying. Are students queueing up to ref though? We need as many of them as we can get.

Maybe at mini soccer until they are 18, but that can have its problems too. It may pay more as a ref but its not easy.

Its a reflection of society in general. People's lives are getting harder and they dont know how to do anything about it therefore take it out on each other. The football pitch is a prime battleground for it. The widespread use of recreational drugs and binge drinking of alcohol,not to mention...

I don't think anybody who has ever reffed for any length of time would consider reffing of any sort 'easy money.'

Let me elaborate a little on this as more of a ref and football fan. If the play was stopped at the free kick being centred by an official's flag I would simply have said 'fair enough,offside' and shrugged my shoulders. But allowing the game to continue and absoluting sucking the joy out of the...

I'd imagine a higher fee is to make it more attractive for ref's to turn up? With boys it is almost taken as a given even though Youth football is desperately short of refs. 1-0 to the ladies in my view.

I'd have thought this was easy to disprove as I thought an address needed to be provided at registration?

I probably passed my refs exam at a similar age,early to mid thirties,but I'd suggest you have a good few years if you want to advance. I'm now too old for any lists at all.

I know English coaches who go through the Welsh FA coaching pathway and they are full of praise for the Welsh FA v their English counterparts. It seems they are pretty good in their refereeing set up too. Are any Welsh refs at the top level?

Get a room you two!

I have had a pair of copia mundial/world cup from around 15 years ago that I got reduced from a friend at a local PL Academy. They are moulded studs therefore I cant remember if they are copa mundials or world cups as one pair is moulded(as mine are) and one pair is screw in studs. Extremely...

Top marks for your commitment. I hope you get to the level you are hoping for.

Im a Liverpool fan and thought it was a poor decision. I hate VAR in general though.

I am in the north west of England but have never been committed enough to do those kinds of mileages.

I didnt infer from your post that people were 'lying' about their mileage as that is a different kettle of fish altogether.

To me it looks like the GK is just lining up the goal kick with the first touch.

Ah right. They are the same here given I am in the North West too.

Yeah,I am aware of the 'tournament' or 'festival' tables aspect too. I actually think there should be plenty of those types of games rather than these constant 'friendlies' but many areas,my own particularly,just dont have the facilities to do them. Mind you,there are still plenty of 'coaches'...

As somebody who could be classed as a goalkeeping coach I would say that this is a goalkeeping technique and would fall into the 'attempt' category of refereeing. I think the caution was spot on myself.

My only experience of pathways are from the coaching perspective and like most things with the FA there are shortcomings there but I can imagine there are in the refereeing pathways too.