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You'll find it's easier in a group. It is definitely a mind battle as it's a boring test, imo. And repetitive. Also on the day, there's the pressure to get it done so you don't have to go again. Different world to a casual session. When I did mine, travelling a near 130 mile round trip on a...

I've got mine! Haven't felt like this for long time (I think since I passed my PCV test back in '16)!

It'll be Friday at 1659...

Sorry to read all that, I hope you manage to come back to refereeing at some point in the future. Don't let idiots on the side get you down. I won't lie, I also read the age group as 'U9' at first, which shocked me about them travelling 5 hours, until I saw my mistake... Edit - to add, if...

How long between the clip and you blowing the whistle? All I can say is maybe delay the whistle a second or 2, but then you have the issue of '2 bites of the cherry'. Tough one imo. Probably just make a decision and try to sell it. Say you thought the players' shot was heading wide or something...

Regarding players asking about added time, I usually say ' 2 minutes minimum', or a variation of. That way they can't moan when you play more because of a very late injury.

I would say go for promotion, you'll have more options of higher quality games, I think if you're a level 5 as well you'd be more likely to be appointed to FA competitions. I had none in my 4 seasons as a 7, then got 4 in my first season (this season) as a 5. I would say definitely go for it.

I can only write what I feel from my games, there have been games I haven't used that spiel (I went through a spell of a few weeks) and thought I had issues so brought it back in. If I feel it works, I feel it works.

Re - players shouts At the coin toss I tell the captains I will look to play advantage if I can (different to late whistle/thinking time). I say I may bring it back after 2/3/4 seconds, it's not listening to the shouts, it's just that no advantage has occurred. Those are pretty much my exact...

Making unauthorised marks on the field of play is the offence.

Maybe he's not used to a decent ref 😉

I do this, I did a game once and afterwards one of the teams said they'd never known a referee blow so late for fouls. I think they lost about 8-1, iirc, never had it since or before, and I've done an awful lot of games in 5 seasons.

I didn't think it was handball at the time, fwiw. I can see why it would be given, maybe from certain angles, but I think I'd be going no offence in my games.

I couldn't find a way so had to email my RDO. I don't think there's another way unfortunately.

Make sure your Blood Pressure is within the acceptable range. Else you'll have failed before you've started...

Didn't seem that dry up here in the East Midlands. I'm guessing it won't all be down to the weather, but that's a lot of games to get played. Madness.

Starting on the 11th April, finishing on the 29th April. That's 19 days, if my calculations are correct? The amount of games one team is playing in one of my local leagues. I wouldn't like to be their best player after game number 7!

I can say I'm glad I didn't buy any of the green black kit, was waiting till end of the season if I got L4. Best start looking at the anthracite stuff...

All I can say is, don't worry about not knowing the teams, a clean slate can be a good thing. Treat it like a normal game, don't think of the occasion. The players will, it's better if you don't in all honesty, imo. Maybe up your game a bit, sterner when disciplining the teams, slow the game...

I would personally class it as USB, but then I do sometimes wonder if I have a lower tolerance to things like this than others. At the end of the day, imo, it's an unsporting thing to do. It's behaviour of a player. That's good enough for me.