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Good advice. He got in touch today to say I’d met the criteria from my assessments (had a 4th and got another above standard), he only asked I send him the matches i officiate in for the remainder of this season, come the end of April...so it doesn’t sound like it but I’ll confirm anyway.

Nothing from the CFA or league yet. I know the academies are continuing to play this week at the least.

I’m not sure if it’s correct by law but if I offered an advantage and the team in possession stopped and asked for the free kick I’d blow. If they’d prefer the set-piece surely by refusing it, it’d effectively be a disadvantage.

Given that you can practically ignore the more ridiculous foul throw shouts, I’d consider it low level, most appeals aren’t exactly vigorous either. It isn’t worth wasting your breath getting into a discussion about it a lot of the time.

More of a general/low-level thing but I’m sick and tired of the 5-6 “foul throw” appeals I have to wave off every game! On average I think I see a foul throw once every 4 matches. Very few are even close to being borderline. It’s something I can’t get my head around!

If you’ve got the time you’ll find watching some local referees will be useful. The higher the standard the better. Watch what the referee does as play develops etc.

As you mentioned experience plays a big part but if you focus on getting wide as much as you can, whilst being close enough to play when there’s pressure on the ball then you’ll find you’ll be where you need to be most of the time. The caveat is you need to work hard to make sure you’re in...

Wow! That’s shocked me.

I assume you have then!?

“I’m a ref” probably means he’s done the basic course as a coach but isn’t actually a ref and has never refereed a game in his life. The basic course IMO, isn’t very good....that’s being polite. I’ve had this with coaches before ‘who are refs’, they seem to think it gives them free reign to...

I had no reason to believe he hadn’t seen what I’d seen. I was surprised he didn’t give it but in a game that finished 10-3 it didn’t make much of a difference in the end!

Yeah I was mentally preparing to give that response to the coaches (they were on my line), but they were too busy laughing!

Thanks lads, that’s helpful. We didn’t have a pre-match on this occasion but it’s something I’ll listen out for on the next one 👍🏻

Had a scenario last week (friendly academy game), I was AR. Ball played through into penalty area over the far side from me, referee in a really good position, attacker beats defender to it, defender charges him in the back and sends him flying. From my angle, penalty. Referee doesn’t give...

Fair enough, as kes has mentioned say it nice and loud so more people can hear it. You’ll find they’ll start telling each other then.

I often say “hold on” if the ball is in play but I’m not sure why you’d want to refuse? It’s no bother to tell them and refusing to is not going to do your match control any favours.

“HE’S OFSIIIIIIIDE REF!!!” is the shouting I’m eluding to, if I tell them to carry on that is. One from the weekend just gone when I gave a close OS was “AH YOU'RE KILLING ME REF”. The former is more in appeal but usually has a follow-up comment. They’d get a word if they followed up with...

I don’t think I seen that referee run once in that clip 😂 (not a criticism). More often than not I think my spiel to the captains at the toss is a waste of time. I keep it brief- remind them there’s no AR’s meaning OS calls are as best I can so don’t want grief over them. Then ask that they...

Haha maybe that’s it mate! I say replace a VAR pitch side monitor with a ‘refchat’ monitor while we’re at it.

Yeah I’ve got a 4th this weekend, which isn’t a problem. I raised the ‘below’ with the observer appointment officer and he backed the assessor saying if I fall short on application of law, expect to be marked down. It didn’t matter to him that I’d said I didn’t think I was wrong on application...