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I also had this, although the roof had already come down when I got there so the home team said “we’re not playing, are we!” “No!” “Ok, bye!” I abandoned a county cup game because of high wind. The wind was really bad, (end to end) but when driving rain started the team kicking into it were...

The team actually applied to join my other Sunday league a couple of years ago because “the league committee are out to get us!” I was asked what they were like and when I explained the team were politely told to get stuffed. They were also reported for suggesting local CFA officials and...

" The first time I had the team last season as I walked out to start the manager was on the sidelines screaming abuse at his players by way of a team talk. For example, if player x gets the ball “f***ing smash him!” screamed at high volume so everyone could hear. I knew how the game was going...

One of my Sunday leagues had a team who were an absolute nightmare. The manager was the main culprit and surrounded himself with a gang of absolute thugs. The league could only give them to four or five of us, so we all had them 5 or 6 times a season. I sent off 6 of them last season - the last...

I don't know if others are seeing the same but for me, offside is replacing handball as the new offside (!) - ie the players appear to have given up trying to understand handball and have gone back to just appealing for everything as before but they now go mad about offsides again. Two recent...

Especially with the similar colours - players have been known to have a swing at the Ref in cases like this, using the excuse that they didn't know it was the referee. If you're in similar colours as well they're potentially more likely to do so. Also, if you're in too close it's harder to see...

I think the trouble is they don’t actually look at the kit. Clubs say their colours are black and white striped shirt, black socks and shorts and it sounds like the Newcastle kit so leagues accept it, sight unseen. Then when it turns out it’s all black with a few stripes on the front it’s too...

"Only a ginger can call another ginger ginger" Copyright Tim Minchin

I observed a Supply league game with a team wearing that kit. They looked like a team of Referees. The team also had gold numbers on the back which didn't stand out, partly due to the colour and partly the sun. It was the hardest game I've ever done because I could not lose sight of the Referee...

Agree with the second paragraph. When I was a class 3 (level 7) I was an AR on a match on our supply league. The left back tripped an attacker right in front of me and the Referee pointed straight to the spot. Everyone else, including the player who committed the foul thought it was inside, but...

I'm pretty vocal and tend to tell everyone - I usually shout out "Last 5!" etc, so everyone hears. I can't see why it would be advised never to tell people if they want to know. We're trying to break down barriers, and if the only guy with a watch won't tell anyone else the time that's really...

Hi Kev, I hope you gave it time to make a decision rather than throwing the towel in straight after a "bad" game - it's unlikely that even if you did have a bad game that you made any more mistakes than anyone else on the pitch. As others have said, we've all been through that. I don't know how...

You might be right on some occasions, but I have had players / team officials adamant that if he won the ball then it's a fair challenge. I've certainly heard this on Sky Sports recently with their "experts." I was observing on our supply league a couple of years ago and there was a truly...

I had a very similar tackle last weekend and went yellow. It was right in front of the away bench and they were horrified when I cautioned their player because he won the ball, but his other leg caught the opponent. I didn't think the contact with the second leg was enough to justify UEF but it...

Possibly, but round here a lot of the little so and so's do think that way. That's where shouting "Play on, Advantage!" may wake him up. I've definitely had players who want the keeper sent off because of how they react

Stopping the play to get the GK sent off actually worked against him on this occasion, so hopefully he won't do it in future. If he'd kept going then his team would have won the game. By stopping to get the keeper sent he actually cost his team two points, because they didn't score and so drew...

What is now a step 6 league in Kent used to be my supply league, but the teams didn’t have floodlights at the time so couldn’t really play midweek games. We regularly had double headers as Rusty describes. You’d hope not to be assessed on the second game! I had two teams who ground-shared but...

I have given a penalty and no red card for this. The players went ballistic, until I told them "if it hadn't hit his arm it would have hit his chest, so he's given you a goal scoring opportunity when there wasn't one before!" Some players didn't accept it, but most understood.

I’m afraid it is. They have to make sure the player deserves the punishment because if they ban him before the case is proved he will appeal that as well and the CFA could be in trouble if he subsequently gets off. At the moment this is taking much longer than usual but they will get to him. In...

Assuming the spitting was reported on a separate report I’m sure this will be just for the red card. My county will automatically suspend a player immediately on receiving a report like this, but as he’s suspended for the abuse that takes him out of the game while they deal with the more serious...