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If it's in a break in play, by law, dismiss the perpetrator with a red card. If it's in play, red card and an indirect free kick from the touchline. The only time you'd need to do an extraordinary report is if they keep giving it some after you've dismissed them, or if it's after the conclusion...

Initially it was the only way I could stay involved in football - like all referees I'm a bit crap at the game even if I do think I could still do a job! There's something about the challenge of having these intense situations to try and get the right decision on that I enjoy - I always hated...

As it happens I've been picked up for a game in North Beds this weekend before I had a chance to close the date so if you're about on Saturday, by all means. Drop me a PM and we'll have a chat, thanks.

Short and sweet - two teams this morning decided I'd piddled on their cornflakes. Even really stupid things like refusing to leave the area for a goal kick. One player I knew I should have binned early on kept on at me. Players refusing to provide surnames so I've had to submit a report that...

Just check Big Dave's 144p phone camera from 2009 on the sideline, that'll do!

What was the outcome in the end?

Looks like there are two defenders both on or behind the goal line, meaning they're considered to be in line for offside and they're technically all playing him on.

Depressing to see the response on most of social media - most are saying 'he deserved it, referees are all ****e/biased/corrupt/look funny so I don't like 'em.' Has it gotten worse recently or has every match always come with accusations of corruption?

I've been having a fairly easy season at 5 so far this year, and I've not been doing anywhere near as much soccer as I did while chasing promotion. Part of that is related to work which needs to be done over the weekend, part of it is that I seem to have vanished beneath the notice of our...

When the wall is setting up and the keeper is doing their thing, come wide and have an eye out for anyone starting to get handsy - it doesn't particularly matter who - and blow the whistle, pull them over, tell them to pack it in. Everyone else then thinks 'crikey, Judge Dreadful is spotting...

Predictably social media is full of 'referees need to be accountable' round #155226. Apparently angry players bursting into changing rooms is fine.

As soon as you realised he was ringing just to moan at you, you should have politely told him that you weren't going to listen and hung up. Once you've done your admin, done your own personal reflections, and reported any other matters to the competition, your job is done and you should be...

Depends on the nature of the rupture. A partial tear might not take too long to mend. A full severance would be catastrophic, but I can't imagine he would have finished the half with a completely severed ACL.

Just seen this posted by a colleague of mine on social media. Generally speaking I think our county are very good and the standards of behaviour are as good as anywhere else I've been, so I can only imagine this was a very serious matter, and I imagine our RDO will be on it quickly. I've never...

We've had two assaults, one hospitalising a player today in our league. (Don't blame me, I was off for some martial arts stuff - much safer!) I'm not sure what the league response will be, but as the chairman is also a referee I imagine it will be big. I wonder if something like certain games...

Most of the shouts of corruption are from people trying to find an excuse for their favourite team of multi-millionaire mercenaries not winning that week. As far as I'm aware there's never been any evidence whatsoever of corruption within English football, at least in my lifetime, and almost...

Seems like fairly standard manager whinging about a decision against them to be honest.

Stout heart. Ultimately if they do this to you, they'll do it to the next referee, and next week's referee might be the seventeen-year-old lad who's had to give up playing and will pack it in if they behave like that. We've got a responsibility to do the boring, unpleasant bits of admin and...

As I said, first half I was proactive and the game benefitted - I can't quite pin down where things got out of hand but I might be that I relaxed too much second half and tolerated too much.

(I had a busy morning!) 1. Protection for the goalkeeper - how far do you go? I had four separate occasions today in which a goalkeeper and a player were competing for a ball, and each time I assessed that the keeper had control of the football with both hands before the outfield player...