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Not much to argue with in there!

Law 12 makes this clear - 'A player, substitute or substituted player who has been sent off must leave the vicinity of the field of play and the technical area.'

Ridiculous challenge, I am typically happy with red when studs are planted on the opponent and no attempt for the ball.

The sending off offence applicable to team officials is 'physical or aggressive behaviour' (towards any person).

Well this did not make it onto Mic'd Up, probably because it's far too embarrassing.

We could have 'shadow' VAR teams operating simultaneously doing checks and deciding when they would intervene. All would work the same as the real VAR teams except they wouldn't communicate with the on-field officials. Though you could even have someone 'acting' over comms if you wanted to mock...

Pickford's challenge should have gone to an on-field review. Penalty and caution at minimum. Beto's I think should have been SFP for going completely in the air, lunge that endangers the opponent's safety.

I'll bet it's the touch on the ball first that has (wrongly) deterred VAR from intervening. It's nice that despite that touch we can see universal condemnation of the challenge and lack of appropriate sanction.

Don't see why VAR recommended a review for this. A red is justifiable in law under VC - brutality for the action here. Possibly something over the comms influenced things, as there has tended to be comms between refs and VARs to confirm what they think they saw.

My understanding is the complete opposite of @george.g ... you can't apply for both pathways at the same time, but men's and women's games are still eligible to count towards either.

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I just don't think a lack of subs is sufficient reason to abandon (on its own i.e. if there is no particular ongoing concern for player safety). Where do you draw the line, e.g. what if they do have a sub available but not a goalkeeper, do you still abandon then? Another voluntary / sporting...

A match can be abandoned for outside interference so it would have been fine to in law. However I think the away team's argument for wanting the match abandoned is not the right one. It is no one else's fault that they had used all their subs (assuming these were not all injury-related). I am...

The goal cannot be disallowed because 1. Play had not been stopped prior to the ball entering the goal, and 2. There was no offence by the attacking team. It is as simple as that. It sounds like there was insufficient time to properly assess the situation before the ball entered the goal, so all...

@JamesL 's point is that 'in all other cases' does not apply because the ball was in the penalty area when play was stopped. Interesting point - let's imagine the ball enters the goal before the referee realises there was outside interference in the build up and blows their whistle. Is the...

Spot on, play has to be stopped and restarted with a dropped ball (Law 5.3). My only comment is the whistle for the restart is not necessary.

My game (in the yellow warning area) also went ahead, though the majority of games in the league were not played. While we had occasional tricky gusts, it helped that the wind direction was across the field rather than along it and the ball had no significant problem with remaining stationary...

Tiny travel distance also makes it easier to have the final decision in the morning rather than night before.

A lot of the retailers offer a starter pack of referee kit and equipment, and it normally doesn't matter too much when you buy it. This can be the most affordable way when starting out, or seeing if there are any referees in your area passing on kit second-hand. You don't need any specific brand...

It will be explained to you on the course who to contact to be given refereeing appointments in your local competitions, and what sort of match fees you can expect. If you want to do your own research you can look up the rules for your local competitions and this will list the match fees.