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If the Laws of the Game specify what pressure the ball is to be, and you can easily and quickly check this with an inexpensive piece of equipment, why wouldn't you?

I'm also an avid reader, and am disappointed with the comparative dearth of books for referees. I've read three refereeing books so far. One was "The Art of Refereeing" by Robert Evans and Edward Bellion. Absolutely fantastic book - it has elements of a refereeing manual, but also conveys...

Great illustration of the difference a pressure gauge makes today, especially if you're using multiple balls. We got the 5 match balls, all felt pretty much the same, all about right. Got the pressure gauge out, and they ranged from 6 - 10 psi (the laws require 8.5 - 15.6).

Glad to hear this is being properly enforced in our area - was in the local football store the other day, and overheard "I mean for f%@*'s sake, were they really going to pass it to me just because of my ankle guard?"

GK handling a backpass is not a 'handling' offence in the laws, so it doesn't meet the definition of the first DOGSO clause. The question is whether it meets the definition of the second DOGSO clause, since it is an offence punishable by an IDFK. I originally thought it would, but of course to...

The technically correct answer, as I've been taught by instructors, is that if a player commits two separate, non-simultaneous cautionable offences, then he should be issued with both a first and a second caution. In practice though, I think my response would be dictated by fairness in the...

I certainly found that. I think it was not so much a change in my tolerance, but a dramatic improvement in both my confidence and my willingness to make decisions in situations where at the beginning of my career I would have thought I could get away with not making a decision.

Really? Around here I'd expect to be crucified if I was being assessed and failed to check with a pressure gauge. Also, it prevents any complaints from the players as inevitably there's somebody who thinks the ball is too hard or too soft. And yeah check for frayed seams etc, do the spin test...

Thanks for that! It's the opposite end of the season here in the Southern Hemisphere, but I am an AR tomorrow for the first time in a competition game for quite some time.

I would have thought if you were certain enough that it was a dive to indicate this with a hand signal, then you were certain enough to issue a caution. Personally I think diving is a blight on the game, and as referees I don't think we help ourselves if we are lenient on it when we know it has...

After only a couple of years playing football, and coming to the end of my Youth League "career" I realised that I wan't going anywhere as a player. Not just that I wouldn't be a professional, but that my local team was the worst team in the worst league, and I would probably still just be a...

I think there are some occasions that call for a quick yellow - if you have players from the fouled team approaching or appealing for a yellow, I find it much more effective to immediately show the yellow, rather than have to get rid of them before talking to the cautioned player. It also...

Technically yes, you can card both players, for leaving and entering the field of play without your permission. However, in this situation, often the players will simply be following the instructions of their coach so personally I wouldn't be too picky about cautioning both. I would have a word...

I tend to get sore knees and ankles very easily, and always feel like I'm not far away from shin splints. Part of the solution to this is ditching some of my extra weight, but also wondering if anybody else here has similar problems, and if you've found a really effective way of training for...

Yes. So obviously DOGSO by handling cannot apply to the keeper. But there's nothing which suggests that DOGSO by any other offence which results in a free kick doesn't apply to the keeper. Yeah, every bit of advice that people have in training courses, and from higher officials, points to...

You're getting ASB shirts this season? I didn't think they were doing that again this year.

Ah right. Well it's certainly true you have a better chance of reaching a high level as a referee. But it would be interesting to see the odds on actual professional referees, since you need to reach a higher level of the game to become a professional as a referee than as a player.

Not sure about those numbers - correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't there 16 professional referees in the UK? Which would suggest that there are only 1,488 referees in total? And that's not even taking into account other countries - for example in all of the Oceania federation + Australia there...

I find it unbelievable that a referee would consider NOT giving this - it's a blatantly against the LOTG. 1. As a referee, it's not your job to have an opinion about whether or not the striker "deserves" to score, but rather to enforce the laws. Especially when this blatant infringement of the...

Great tool! One suggestion - if this is going to be the main record I keep of my matches, I'd like to be able to easily back up the data myself. Perhaps you could consider allowing users to easily download a .CSV file containing the raw data from their account?