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I asked my RDO a similar question recently, and the response I got was there are 4 opportunities per season to achieve promotion. Q1 and Q2 have passed, Q3 is the end of February, Q4 is the end of April. @The Gump - I always thought 7-to-6 and 6-to-5 promotion candidates were always able to...

I know this doesn't quite answer your question, but current Premier League referee Simon Hooper uses some kind of notebook style card; whatever he has certainly folds in half after he's written in it. I'm struggling to find a clear picture of it, this is the best I can find. Picture . They're...

It's quite strange because immediately after the whistle is blown the camera is focussed on him and there doesn't seem to be any look over to the AR nor does it appear he's speaking on the comms. It appears to me that the ref has made that decision himself. I'd be interested in others...

I am a little confused, I didn't think a referee could issue a caution directly from a VAR intervention? Have I got that wrong? The IFAB VAR principles seem to suggest that isn't permitted https://www.theifab.com/laws/latest/video-assistant-referee-var-protocol/#principles

This thread way as well be locked off from any further responses. It's becoming tedious. It's clear no matter how much explaining, from some extremely knowledgable and experienced members of this forum, the original poster can't/won't be convinced otherwise.

Whilst I admire your 'keep an open-mind' stance, @RustyRef I find it implausible that The Sun would publish the video (together with their logo watermarked over the top of it) unless they were absolutely 100% sure it was him and rock solid with their sources. As mentioned above, Philip Walton...

For no.1.... I'm not entirely convinced AR1 could get the most ideal view, judging by the attackers position sliding to hook in the cross.

Was it not a case (from this grainy angle that I screengrabbed from MOTD) that Mateta was actually behind the ball? Therefore the line wasn't drawn on the Leicester defender? The only other thing I could possibly speculate is the green line seems to be on Mateta's left foot rather than his...

Your response was thought-provoking @JamesL . Does this bring us onto a secondary question... do tolerance levels have to adapt as we, as refs, progress through the levels? I notice you're a L3. I have absolutely no doubt I'd be dismissing a player at grassroots level if they told me to F-off...

Funnily enough, I have the exact same problem tomorrow. 😂 The MOAS system had details for me from 2010! NB: I quit refereeing around 2013 before returning to officiating and retaking the course in a different county a couple of years ago. Having been nominated by my county for FA Cup/FA...

Is the phrase "clear and obvious" just an English/FA/Premier League thing? Or is it applied to UEFA/FIFA too?

I too approve this boring thread! Artur Soares Dias yesterday, during the toss for Denmark v England, tossed the coin and caught it in the air - but sort of palm down, in a grabbing motion, rather than palm up and letting it land in his hand. I tried it earlier with a coin and kept dropping...

I get your point, there is a real problem with referee availability. My idea wouldn't be official mentoring, as such. A newly qualified referee signs up to their local league, and instead of being put straight onto a fixture, they just tag along to a fixture that already has an experienced ref...

Instead of throwing newly qualified referees out into the wild for their first six games, I wonder whether it would be beneficial sending them out with another level 7/6, just for a game or two, to watch/observe/see some of the intricacies and 'unwritten/untaught' stuff? In my first game, I...

I hope others agree, but when you have a game and you nail it (i.e. you know you handled the game well, handshakes all round at the final whistle etc), you won't remember the matches like you had yesterday. Of course, you'll learn from those bad days and you won't forget them, but once you get...

I had a similar incident in a Sunday league game recently. A team who had no subs had their midfielder sustain a blood injury, and I asked him to leave the field for treatment (and to replace his blood stained jersey). The captain insisted that I was required to stop the game as "we don't...

And so it should. If the IFAB/FIFA want to rid the game of the scourge of abuse/dissent, they need to increase the severity of the punishment. Comparing/contrasting to other offences shouldn't come into it. It works in rugby union...

I saw Sunny Singh Gil on a Championship game recently and I thought he was outstanding - akin to watching a Premier League ref drop down to do a Championship game. He now seems to be back on L1/L2 games.

I respect your point of view, but try not to look at your game(s) through the wider prism of your league as a whole, or how other match officials deal / don't deal with dissent in their games. I would say it would be far beneficial for you to focus on your own officiating and how you can manage...

This is a truly bizarre comment in my opinion. Sin bins don't need a quota, and nobody is working hard to "justify" dissent. They are a tool available to us to utilise, along with the list @george.g provides (managing players better, talking my way through things, involving skippers more). I...