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Futsal tonight: "It doesn't have to be deliberate ref, he had his arm away from his body when the ball was kicked into it."

Love it! I'm recording all my games in here, and have no complaints..but a couple of ideas. I referee both Futsal and outdoor, so it would be nice to have a feature which lets you select the form of the game, provide the appropriate roles to select from (ie Referee, AR1, AR2, 4th official OR...

I thought about trying to play on Sunday while refereeing on Saturday - but in the end decided to go with reffing men on Saturday and women on Sunday. I still play indoor five-a-side (different rules from Futsal) though, and yes my tolerance for bad referees has gone down, but I speak more...

Wellington Phoenix and QPR.

Sounds exactly like my first game! Others might have different ideas, but a few things I would do: Research: Even though it might seem like an unimportant detail, knowing what to expect when you get to the ground can really help boost your confidence. So find someone who has refereed at that...

The difference is intent. If a player has control of the ball and then gets down on the ground to head into the goal, then it might be silly, and some might make the argument for it being unsporting if it is just to show off how much time he has, but it is not a deliberate trick intended to...

Down here in Wellington, there isn't an expectation that we get red and/or blue, although most of us do. Having coloured shirts could be a shambles, but in my opinion it works well here because the two colours we are expected to have are very clear, and if you are a ref with ARs, you can...

I was sitting around at home being a bored 18 year old, at the start of the first football season when I wasn't eligible to play in the Youth League. I had decided not to join a men's team, because I had figured out I would end up being a sub for the worst team in the league. Figuring I needed...

The comments on this forum were the first inkling I had that some places still require all black kit. When I started, I was immediately handed black, yellow and an awful green (which has fortunately disappeared). I now have yellow, black, red and blue, and I will usually wear the yellow if...

The same way that flicking the ball up to head it is circumventing it - that is, in a situation where the player would never normally use his head to play the ball, he has gone out of hisway to do so, the only purpose being to avoid playing the ball to the keeper with his feet.

"A goalkeeper is not permitted to touch the ball with his hand inside his own penalty area in the following circumstances: if he touches the ball with his hands after it has been deliberately kicked to him by a team-mate" What other law could it possibly be referring to?

I see your point, but I would still see a player getting down on the ground to head a ball as a deliberate trick.

Agree with Matty's post a couple of pages back, the best stuff I've come across here in NZ is from people who play football on Saturday morning, but watch rugby on Saturday night. - At the full time whistle, from a team losing by 1 "You can't end the game now ref, we have the ball and it...

No, but my point is it should be pretty obvious whether or not the player has used a "deliberate trick" to head the ball, which is what we are required to judge.

I can't imagine why you would want an AR whose neutrality you cannot trust. My first year of refereeing (in Nelson, for Matty's benefit) the practice was to have ARs always watching their own defence, and ask them to call offsides. In my experience there were far too many times when I...

My judgement would be that if he heads the ball when that would be the natural way to pass in the situation OR when either heading or kicking makes sense (ie ball at waist height), then I have no problem. It should be pretty obvious when a player is doing something which would not be a normal...

Leisure leagues sound a lot like the casual indoor or 5v5 outdoor games you get around the place in New Zealand. And no, I don't referee them, I play in them, just to remind myself that I'm a terrible player and should stick to reffing. I've never come across the sort of discipline problems...

What do you mean by that? Law 12 is pretty much the same for both forms of the game, apart from the removal of "or attempts to trip."

I refereed my first Futsal game last night, and I'm hooked. I haven't done any training yet, just read through the rules and am being coached fairly closely, but it really wasn't a great leap from reffing 11v11. The differences are largely technical - positioning, counting to four seconds at...

Hope you enjoy The Art of Refereeing! Just beware that some of it may contradict what you are taught by instructors or assessors (mind you in my experience instructors and assessors tend to contradict each other anyway). They are critical of the way things are done by the 'refereeing...