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@Brian Hamilton please don't be ridiculous. I've come to expect you to be a bit more reasonable. What baffled me about this particular appointment is that it's on the patch of the biggest RA in my county so there are clearly plenty of referees close at hand. Why dispatch people so far?

@HertsFinest I think I'm going to move across the border! Assigned to a game a 40 minute drive each way. I am not a promotion candidate, I've been doing this 6 months and I'm already sick of the beauracracy! The amateur game needs to take itself a little less seriously!

@smair she's 8! It's not just about right answers but the effort that is put in!

Twas a she! Just generally being clever and helpful. Her third goal was from a theory in a maths lesson that "dividing any number by 2 twice will give an odd number". Pretty close to correct!

@DaveMac I'm essex fa too, do we still have to send in the competition form by post or can we use whole game? Baffled by the use of snail mail!

Cheers guys, had my first hat trick hero this week who got to keep a pencil!

@DaveMac was it the county sec or a club sec?

I turned down my county cup appointment owing to 1) having a prior engagement and 2) not knowing I would be put on county cup in first season and on OA which I don't referee. Emailed county rdo and the appointment sec with result of being removed from all county cup panels! Check your profile on...

So that just in case it goes straight in you have a physical reminder not to award a goal? I would easily forget to be honest!

Mini soccer is my week in week out at the minute. Be prepared to see some chest passes at throw ins and plenty of falling over. Girls will probably roll about being "injured" a lot less than the boys I referee!

There it is @mike mcgill. Kids move up as they work hard or do something else positive to score a goal and get a funky pencil on loan for a week. 3 goals makes a hat trick hero and they keep a pencil. Yellow card for negative stuff after a warning then a red if they don't improve which equals...

I will take a picture of the behaviour chart in my classroom tomorrow. You'll love it!

It's what confuses me about the fa; that they expect us to travel obscene distances to officiate when we all have jobs, families etc.

Can I direct you to this from my CFA: http://www.essexfa.com/news/2013/dec/social-networking-update Report it with screen shots of the comments. The player/club concerned should be toast.

Either you get him back over here skipper or yyou can give me his name. Only used it once but the got the skipper to verbally berate his own player.

I'm with the flag up camp. Rather than doubt about offside it's whether you doubt it is a goal. Any doubt means flag up. Like Brian says better a dodgy offside than a dodgy goal.

Jeff Brazier runs a local side and my first ever game he was on the sideline giving it large!

Just got a casio reftimer for my birthday but up to now I've always used a pair of the cheap argos ones! No problems with them so far!

Misconduct report to county detailing the incident from start to finish. Sounds like you'll need to be careful with names as the twins are likely to claim you have it the wrong way round (assuming that they are identical!). Give your cfa discipline office a call to ask them if you're unsure...

I suppose it would have to be passing my exam to be a referee! Then assisting on a local u11 final and the south east region u11 district schools competition. I reffed the team that went on to win the nationals!