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Yep have that all organised ready to go. I’ve been wearing these silicon-padded bandaids over the area while I’m at work, so might double up on them for this weekend

I generally only do grassroots / junior football, and I just wouldn't let anyone on wearing glasses. Although, I didn't even realise this past weekend about glasses during my little check when the players ran onto the field, and got a bit shocked at one boy wearing Edgar Davids style...

Haven't logged on here for a while, so here goes for me: Had my first game(s) back weekend just gone. Was supposed to come back in early March, but had my appendix go the day I got my appointments, so that kept me out for 4-5 weeks. Got my state's premier league youth games (U13 and 14) but...

Yeah, that statement could have probably passed for Liverpool Sydney too haha

Glad it went well mate, everyone offered some good advice, and good to hear the observers thought you did ok as well. I can understand the nerves at being AR at a very high level.. I'm getting them now for this weekend! I've done games as AR before, but got appointed to do a fixture in my...

Yep, these types of bans can be interesting. Had this one happen last year which resulted in a 10-year ban for the offender. Former official hit with 10-year ban for pitch invasion protest

Yep, it can be a problem. My association in Australia has 3 options (Fluoro yellow, Black, and the deep/baby blue), but list the yellow one as our Primary, so I do know there is one club where their home kit is a deep yellow, so for junior games (where the referees will most likely only own the...

4/5, but to be fair, I haven't had to do a penalty shootout before

Yes, I think this is a good way to do it as well actually. This season was my first season refereeing (Level 4 in Australia, which is... I dunno, probably like way down like 8 or something in the UK). My first weekend (2 games on AR with the same middle referee) I was feeling a bit out of my...

Yes, I use series 3 and RefSix. Basically, this is my first season. Didn't feel comfortable with pulling the tech out on my first weekend, but found it too fiddly pulling a notepad out for every goal (there was a lot of goals), when I had something on my wrist that was just two presses. I still...

Funny, I was reading about penalty procedure today in my handbook (particularly around feinting in a penalty shootout I watched) As above, that's the only thing I can find. "If, before the ball is in play, one of the following occurs: * The player taking the penalty kick or a team-mate offends...

Amazing what that does for any sport tbh. I know it's not football, but a guy I went to uni with was in the NRL (rugby league) referee academy, and I would spend a bit of time with him studying and reading and what-not. I remember being shocked at coming to the conclusion that if on a really...

Why was that harsh?

Woo, finally got a 5

Why come for advice if you're just going to be mocking the advice given to you?

Especially in England, I didn't expect that to be a new thing over there. Back when I was playing youth football here in Australia, my club got a few guys from around Swindon (well, the one I'm mainly talking about was from Swindon at least) for the senior team, and one became the Assistant...

Yep, frequently have to double headers as in the lower leagues here, and masters league, we only get appointed as centre referee's, very rarely with linesman. So I've had 9am K.O on my own, followed by 11:00 K.O on my own on a Sunday morning pouring down rain as one example

Made me think back to this incident (1:30)

Lets try to think about how Australia's early 1990's spew kit was handled: Because of the way it was made, every single shirt had an inconsistent design

Yes, I had an issue like this in one of my first games. I started bringing the wall back, and had pointed at my whistle and told the kicker to wait for my whistle. As I was walking the wall back, he took the kick (and scored), and the defenders argued that he already took the kick and started to...