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As Rusty says, the ones you expect to be hard rarely are, possibly because you go in with the right mindset. The ones you expect to be a breeze are the ones to watch out for. When the game starts make sure you start out giving everything. Then the players know you're on it and you can ease off...

We have regular BP tests at work, which are going on at the moment. I was just talking with one of the junior lab technicians and he said he was a bit worried about it so he had a coffee and a cigarette beforehand to calm him down .... then was surprised that his reading was 155 / 100!!! :wall:

It's not an offence to say "mine" "leave it" or anything else like this. The offence is distracting an opponent, and potentially any words could do this. I had a player asking the question on Sunday because an opponent shouted as a team mate shot at goal. It didn't put him off so no offence...

Smile. When you get out to the centre circle make your first whistle to call the captains in loud. That will help settle your nerves. Take your time to make decisions. There’s no prizes for blowing quickly. When there’s a foul and you’re going to caution but there are several players in the...

It looks like the Saturday game is supply level, so this will be more formal, including ARs. It’s nothing to worry about. He’s there to watch the referee mostly, as others have said, although if you’re new at that level he may sit near you to keep an eye on how you do. This is more for support...

Wasn’t having a dig. I was saying that we are not the same as players and have a lot more we need to be aware of apart from the ball. I must be cynical, but some of the “characters” in the game I know would do exactly this. I’ve seen this happen to a colleague, and it doesn’t have to be a major...

My local youth league handbook has this in, but the match durations have a minimum half length and a maximum playing time (which includes extra time for cup games) I make a point of confirming with the managers before the start, at least for the younger age groups.

With respect, it’s a bit disingenuous to assume we are only watching the ball. There are 22 players who expect us to be watching everything they are doing / that’s happening to them as well. We need to be aware of the ball so we can get the right position to see infringements, but if that was...

The same - 5 minutes (or as long as it took to get changed!) I did a game in the morning on my local league, and then went to mentor a newly qualified referee. I'd picked that up at short notice so didn't have a chance to get in contact with him. He never showed up so I ended up doing the game...

When I started the phrase was "keep fit to referee, not referee to keep fit!" Personally I think it's all relative, and as long as the Referee is fit enough for the level of football he's doing it doesn't matter if he's not particularly fit. Most of the time you can tell what's going on even if...

I sent a keeper off a few years ago and he threw his gloves at me before storming off. I put the details in the report (this was when you had to put in details of all dismissals) and sent it off. A couple of days later I had a phone call from County asking if I wanted to bother with the...

Many years ago I refereed a sunday league game on a school pitch which had a school fair going on all round it. When I called the captains in for the coin toss I told them "look lads, there's a fair here today. Please can you ask your players to keep the language down, because I'll have to deal...

Unfortunately by managing the foul in the 2nd minute has meant the defender felt aggrieved, so he's taken revenge himself. If the foul in the 2nd minute is reckless then it should be cautioned, and then if they carry on then it's their own fault. Unfortunately it's sort of expected that we won't...

I used to do one half running each wing so the ARs kept the same defence, so that makes me a semi-sicko! I had an appeal against a player where he stated that the AR couldn't see what he'd done because he was at the other end of the pitch, "because they're always up that end!" We told the...

Thanks, I was trying to make sense of how they could screw up so badly, because it really looks like they did. Things have obviously changed, but they never used to give new L3s premier division games that early in the season and they still never seem to do so on the Isthmian league (other...

This was a Step 3 (Northern Counties Premier Division) game so you'd hope the officials would be up to speed with signals! Also it was in August, when step 3 games are always given to more experienced L3 Referees / L4 ARs rather than newly promoted ones. If it was a push / handling then this...

I know. There are times when you wonder what the hell someone saw and this is one of those. I can't see a handball, but maybe he did, but then why the IDFK? And why make him move back to the goal line inside the goal area, because the ball was on the edge of the area by that time. But he...

I can understand how the second one was given, and possibly even the first, but I don't think either of them can be considered "the worst offside decision ever" when you have ones like this

This. I'd definitely steer clear of being too accurate right at the end unless you really are on the point of blowing anyway. I had a team ask this, and when I said "about twenty seconds" they sent the keeper up for a corner. The other keeper got the ball and launched it and the ball went in at...

The punishment for the offence of striking anyone, including a non-participant is a red card. That is consistent. The restart is what changes. If the player is on the FOP and leaves to commit VC the restart is an IDFK for leaving the field without permission. If he is already off the field of...