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It varies wildly. One of our local youth leagues doesn’t allocate referees. I’ve done at least 100 games for them over the last six years - 3 as volunteer, 3 as qualified - and never had a final. I know I get good scores and feedback, but turns out even though they don’t and never have...

I'm with Kes - ball was in play and it's a direct free kick offence that happened in the penalty area, so penalty sounds 100% the right decision.

100%. Couple of local teams post clips on Insta but nothing worse than that round here. You're on a hiding to nothing, whether you have a good game or (as in this case) a bit of a shocker. As an aside, it was great to hear the manager at half time berating his team for whinging at the ref...

Morbidly fascinating is how I'd describe it!

My two penneth's worth of advice, and will try to cover several of your points. NERVES - I'm worried when I have no nerves at all before a game. I've had a couple of games where I've not been at all nervous (low level youth football) and realised after 10 minutes or so that because of that I...

RC all day long (Saints fan, so please factor that in!).

I coached alongside someone who got a ban in adult football and it was "all football activity" so his wife brought their lad along for three weeks. Now, whether he could have watched as a spectator or not was unclear, but we didn't chance it. I don't know whether this web page is out of date or...

I tend to agree it isn't SFP, but equally would understand if it was. Likewise, on film it looks like DOGSO but I'm not 100% and in real time I can completely understand the BOD being given to the defender. Not that is should matter too much, but the reaction of the players suggest his...

Late to this one - apologies - but hopefully not so late to be resurrecting a dead thread. I've used a waller until recently and this one has held up very well indeed (still in one piece and not split or frayed at all) - Ref Stuff Ref Wallet However, it undoubtedly caused minor delays when...

OMG, what have I started...?!?

100% agree. Being on your own and rarely operating with NARs, finding this site has been a Godsend (despite having to witness occasional pointless bickering because people struggle to agree to disagree!).

Well done. As you move through the ages of reffing youth football from U13s to U18s is that different challenges present themselves. All part of the learning process. One thing I would say is in relation to this: This is a RC at any age group. I appreciated we all have different tolerances...

Understood. Ultimately, I think we’re aligned on VAR as it’s created further problems (and a myriad of them) and solved few. I’m neutral on the standard of refereeing, but think we’ll have to respectfully agree to disagree on whether the appeals process is part of the problem.

Almost certainly - and if we all agreed life would be pretty boring - although we are in full agreement that there should be fewer VAR reviews and decision changes. We probably also agree that there are two many critical errors at the highest levels. However, the main reason I really don't...

This misunderstanding may be on you, it may be on your County FA Referee Development Officer, or a combo of both, but when our CFA invited promotion candidates it was made clear in advance what the full criteria was not only in terms of games but also CPD, LOTG test and Match Day Coaching...

Makes sense. I’ve always done it like @Samuel but with the Velcro on my Adidas ref shorts being like Fort blooming Knox I’m going to switch, helped by new write-on cards so dispensing with note book.

That's certainly what happened to me so I think we're both right which should mean @ICan'tSpeyk will be okay rolling over to the 25/26 season. Just got my email from my CFA saying I'm moving to L6 from tomorrow so you're right about the deadlines, and I'm moving onto L6-5 to try to get a...

If it helps, I went on the 7-6 pathway last year but, for a variety of reasons, never got the required number of OA games in. RDO rolled me over to this season (helpfully, as was still on last year's criteria) and now met the criteria so just waiting for the next promotion window, which...

Probably for the very first time I cannot agree with you here. I work in another sport where there's an appeal process that's very similar to the FA's - legal chair and two "wingers", all of whom are independent. They cannot take decisions outside of the LOTG (ie go soft on someone because the...

I agree with others that they're unlikely to remember you. As an example, I reffed a game back in September where I sent a player off in the first half for aggravated OFFINABUS. Given the discriminatory element to the OFFINABUS, three further YCs to the same team in the first half and I'd...