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Screenshot the Twitter abuse and send it to County FA. They are the ones that can take disciplinary action.

Interesting. The mantra I always hear is that the best referees are the invisible ones. The worst ones are those that make the game all about themselves. Maybe the whole 'clone' thing is to with a view to make refs invisible.

I wouldn't call anyone to my room after the match. Best off for everyone if players stay out of refs' rooms and refs stay out of players' rooms. Sounds like it'll be a misconduct / extraordinary report.

This is how I referee! :confused:

Happy with that. I'm mostly thinking about an incident the one of my County FA's welfare officers shared from one of the matches they refereed: Youth player collided with another and was clearly concussed. She was also the best player on the team and the manager wasn't prepared to sub her off...

I don't think you can ever enforce a substitution and there is nothing in Law as far as I am aware to achieve that. Happy to be proven otherwise. Remember player safety is our priority. If it is severe enough then I would contemplate abandonment - making the coach aware that if the player is...

Just seen he's been given a one match ban. I'd be interested to know if this is consistent with other incidents. He was also named player of the tournament (!)

Argh was trying to write this on the move. Yes what they said! You'll only use your left hand to flag defending throw ins and free kicks

Hold your flag in the hand closest to the ref. This will be in your left hand predominantly. When flagging switch hands if required before raising your arm (only attacking throw ins/free kicks will actually be flagged with your left hand) and be crisp and bold with your flagging so the ref can...

For me, on a cold day I put on wrist sweatbands then put my watches on over them; one on each wrist. That's helped me avoid gloves so far

I think this is a key part of it and something I'll work on. Unfortunately it doesn't help when players don't know Laws - e.g. ball blasted at naturally positioned hands at short range is NOT a handball thank you - so still think you're incompetent! Oh well I can only try and educate as I go :)

This idea that kids can do stuff without consequence I don't understand. It doesn't teach them the Laws of the Game and learn what is acceptable. How would their kid like to be on the receiving end without due punishment.

I had that first time logging in last night. Retried 30 seconds later and it worked.

Thanks there's some good stuff there. Definitely the proactiveness is something I need to work on. I came away from a game this morning and thought to myself- I was too quiet there. Again a player said I was rubbish but they had also lost 6-3. Equally some players complained at the free kicks I...

How does this sit with the fact that David Elleray only had to do an equality education when he made offensive racist comments ("have you been down a coal mine") Hardly fair treatment

There wasn't actually a flash point. Just loads of calls for 'ref have you seen that' 'ref that's a foul' 'how many more late ones ref' I suppose it's down to how to spot a foul and lower my tolerance of nippy little fouls that 'in the old days' you would just play on but nowadays players...

Had a local grassroots derby today (as background this is only my 11th game) and really tested me. A crowd of maybe 80 too so there were some annoying voices in the crowd. I started with a low tolerance to fouls and think I got through the first half well. Ball hit me and went to the opposition...

I can understand why this was disallowed under the current Law. Whilst there's no intent, if it hadn't hit his hand then the rest of the play might never have happened. Has any other season in living memory had so much 'controversy' over Laws? VAR and handball are regularly hitting the...

Easy response to this one nowadays is that the protesting team should take a photo and submit the evidence to the League and County too. If the player was indeed banned they'll be punished by whatever the League have for that competition (probably £ and points) and County will also fine.

I liked the majority of this debate as it shows that the handball law remains murky. I did prefer however when arguments were given quoting law rather than off the cuff remarks that shed no light on why there was disagreement :)