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Has to be no goal unless you are sure there was a touch. Think of it like ball over the line in goal/no goal situations. You need to be sure a legitimate goal has been scored. You can’t guess.

IMHO obvious offence IDFK.

You might already do this, so forgive: - When you go, GO! Don’t start at a jog. Accelerate fast first. Then slow down if it turns out you don’t need to sprint - Use your arms to help accelerate. Don’t forget your arms over those first few yards of acceleration. …yes, anticipation, but also...

I think it’s a strong list. Couple of points that L4-3s include here: Fouls in front of the AR - default is AR watches feet, R watches whole body, so R might whistle an upper body-arms foul. Advantage - AR should not rush to signal a foul. Consider the players. Is there an advantage? I want my...

If the contact was strong enough for it be obvious - so you can give the pen - then I think at least a yellow is expected. Look at it the other way - how can deliberately barging someone off the ball be merely careless? YC is an easy sell and helps you control the situation I think. Unless...

My take is white has no intention of playing the ball, wants to block blue, makes a half-ar*** jump that is not an attempt on the ball, regrets it, and then leads with an arm. Meanwhile blue is tracking the ball and then is completely perplexed by white’s non-footballing action and only...

Be careful how you answer an observer’s questions. Don’t make a mistake in law leading to goal. 🤪

The stepped approach is your friend. Also think about your dynamic peaks during match. That first warning to the coach - that’s a big ceremonial moment - you are interfering and for good reason - and you need to make it count - and not so much for the coach but everyone watching. It doesn’t...

Up North we have mostly artificial fields with narrow touchlines and space behind the goal line. So it’s a common warm up area - and in grassroots it’s also a common warm up area for the next match’s teams. Either way you don’t want players or ball behind the goal. In bigger matches it’s in the...

I’ve got another confession to make…

https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/0297-1d449595df1f-e4e8a42fabeb-1000--uefa-statement-on-var-decision-at-atletico-de-madrid-vs-re/ This angle is conclusive i think

Provocative holding as USB - and therefore possible yo advantage and YC - is probably more useful to us than “blatant. Good clip. Should be in the book!

This VAR distance measuring came up if attackers break the LotG by being within a metre of the wall. Weird thread. You don’t need equipment for that if it’s blatant.

The most important thing is your massive jazz hands advantage signal as the ball rolls in - and to tell all your ref mates

Thing that disturbs me is the attacking team committed an offence, VAR is supposed to check all goals, should have been disallowed. Two attackers are within a metre of the wall. Ziksee(?) even grabs a defender dragging hime to the wall. These three players unsight the GK who dives really late...

Surely there is also at least one attacker within a metre no?

My take is: blatant holding should be included in the LotG as a cautionable USB. That would solve it. I guess where we have landed is you can BH-adv-YC and not be wrong…

Hot off the heels of a recent thread where I explained I know not to give a yellow card after a stopping-a-promising-attack foul and advantage… I was working with a colleague today. Classic long shirt pull as the attacker crossed the half way line. He wriggled free. Ref called a great...

You've described another type of "low level dissent" and as the other posts have advised... use the yellow card. Asked to stop, told to stop... still going... card!

(Hero) Mike Dean reckons the Sotton goal was offside. I can't find a reverse angle. Presumably he did see more angles. My suspicion is the ball played the scorer onside when it was poked through from underneath Allison. But a better angle might show otherwise. Dean convinced VAR missed it...