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These days managers seem to get mad/annoyed about anything wrong a referee does. It seems to the managers that the referee should get 100% of their decisions right, but let's face it we are all human and bound to make mistakes. Mistakes are how we learn and improve as referees.

This has all been very helpful for me. I just wasn't 100% sure on the correct thing to do. I'm sure now I will be able to deal with the situation a lot better and more comfortably.

Im usually notified of each match via an automated email from FA FullTime

Hi everyone, What do I do if I don't get my fixtures confirmed within the correct amount of time prior to match day? Do I assume that the match is off? I don't have a league handbook so I can't contact the teams myself. Thanks for your help and I look forward to your responses.

The ball was in the air and he moved his hands out of the way so that he could chest the ball down and take control. By accident he elbowed the defender. Hope this helps somewhat. I was just more asking about how to deal with the managers when the get angry and start directing their anger...

Nobody's safety was in risk as far as I could tell. I did send the report to the person who appoints the referees via an email so he has it as an email record.

From now on I will start doing this. I'm new to the forum and didn't know of the rules. Thanks for informing.

I was 20 years old on the day the game was played. I've only been officiating for around 2.5yrs and I've informed the person who appoints the referees for my leage and they haven't told me to report it to my CFA. I feel I've done the right thing here. Thanks, this is really useful to know and I...

Hi RefChat, I was officiating in an U12's 9-a-side game a few weeks ago and it was coming up to the last minute in the game and the the home team player used this elbow against the away team player. Note that this was the only bad challenge in the game and the home team were already winning by...