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I guess they could put new members of SG1 onto fixed term contracts, so if a referee is consistently below the standard required over 3 years, for example, then they just would t offer them a new contract. However, I guess they would need to pay a lot more than they do at the moment to make up...

One thing I always advise people I mentor, don’t be afraid of allowing a quick free kick, but if the attacking team are hanging around and waiting for you to get there then go ceremonial, and make sure everyone knows.

He dropped a clanger, that’s for sure and should have moved away before blowing his whistle. He then seems to have had a brain fart and blown for a second time after realising what he’s done, this resulted in the goal being correctly disallowed. He’d have probably got less stick if he hadn’t...

My local Sunday league is looking to start again on 4th of April with the season ending around the 27th of June (depending on covid etc)

In terms of GPS I’ve used a variety, the best were my Polar V800 (I had 2 over 8 or 9 years) and now my Polar Vantage that I got around feb 2020. But both are on the expensive side. I never got on with Apple watches for refereeing, but that was more to do with touch screens and stuff and...

To be honest I’m surprised it doesn’t happen more often. maybe not at the top levels, but certainly at grassroots where referees have less to lose. I know one referee who said that he once offered a player out after a game, but I suspect that he was just trying to show off. But other than...

That’s not difficult to be fair.

Then I imagine he will also face administrative action from the RAF. There army have a nice catch all of “bringing the service into disrepute” and I imagine the RAF will have something similar. As for holding his own, RAF Regt aren’t anything special.

I wonder what the player said to illicit that sort of response. There are lots of reasons why the referee might have done what he did, but I’m not condoning it. He should face a tougher sanction than a player would get in a similar situation.

Pretty much what BigCat said. My preference is to get the CARs in with the captain's before the coin toss so that 1) the cars are told the same thing, and 2) both captain's hear what you tell the CARs. Briefing CARs when they change can be tricky, especially if you don't notice, but there's...

I haven't done youth football since my first season as a referee, but I don't recall ever being given any official or unofficial advice about applying the laws differently in youth football. We'd need to be able to see the incident to say whether it might not have been a DOGSO offence, or...

I think it comes down to knowing your own body, for want of a better phrase. I've been around enough that I'm fairly good at being able to gauge whether pain means I need to rest, or whether it's just a little pull that I can work through. Certainly in the Army when I was serving there was a...

Thanks, I'm terrible at being injured, and I have to fight the army mentality of just necking a couple of ibuprofen and cracking on with it.

Yeah, as well as the running I need to keep up with the other training to strengthen the muscles in my leg etc. I'm allowed to go back to karate (when they can open the dojo again), but I'm under strict orders to build up slowly, and to be careful with kicking and anything that involves...

I know that this might technically class as resurrecting a dead thread, but seemed a bit pointless to create a new one. So progress with my knee has been slow, I started with the NHS, but ended up chinning that off and going private with the physio I normally see for injuries. Started off with...

No one has said that every tackle with contact is a card.

I'm sure he's been in bother for this sort of thing before, either that or there is more than 1 Scottish MP who is also a FIFA referee. If I remember rightly he missed some votes to do a European game.

If the covers are in the hole so that the top is flush with the ground and there are no sharp edges etc then i don't think they would pose a risk. However if the tops of these covers were raised above the level of the ground, or there were sharp edges etc then that would be another issue...

It's not a great camera angle, but it looks like the player is pulled back, so should be a red card.

Legally speaking there is nothing to stop someone from rocking up at the beach and photographing and videoing whatever they want, the exceptions to this are things around anti-terrorism stuff like taking photos of sensitive locations, but even then the Police can't just turn up and confiscate...