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Somewhat coincidentally, my game tomorrow is for the same club that my first game after lockdown one was. That was a friendly, tomorrow is a league game. Friendly on Sunday (my Sunday league restarts in two weeks.) Aching legs on Monday?! I have done my best to keep fit, but a back injury...

Slightly different, but I had a former pro - who was once sold for a million pounds - lined up to play for my vets team. He sent me a text on the Saturday before the Sunday morning game crying off as he had pulled a muscle whilst having a kick around with his 14 yr old son. Didn‘t invite him...

I’d give that. He’s wrapped his arms around him, not very subtle, and then gives him a much more subtle “nudge” with his shoulder. Penalty

Not sure that’s a suitable question for an U8? ;)

There are two main bodies (in England) that oversee schools football ESFA (for all schools and colleges in England) and ISFA (Independent Schools FA, for independent schools) As a rule of thumb, ISFA are more organised and update their website more frequently, so is always worth a look/check...

@PinnerPaul has it spot on. What may/will happen some inter-school football will take place next term (summer term) when normally there is little or no inter-school football

I’ve been booked in for my first two games: a team that are in the Sunday league I ref in have been in touch to book me in for a couple of friendlies on Sunday 4th & 11th April. The league are talking about restarting on the 18th. To be honest, I’d rather be ref-ing on a warm Sunday in April...

Match record: who records what. I’d be telling one AR to record goals, the other to NOT record goals but keep eyes on pitch whilst R and AR have heads in notebooks writing down score. Do you want an AR to also note down cards? I’ve been asked to do this in the past, but to be honest it’s not...

Have you seen the League Two table today*? if not, you should take a look. (This rare occurrence won’t hang around for long, so if you’re a little late to the party and already missed it, I preserved it for posterity on my blog: http://www.amathsteacherwrites.co.uk/top-ten/ ) *Friday 26 Feb ‘21

Hi Ross, can I take this? Jeff

Of more concern to me, in pics 4, 6 & 10 it looks like at least two different players are not wearing shin pads?

Perhaps now we’re teaching remotely I can squeeze you into the back of my virtual classroom... (Next up: Vectors in 3D with my year 13 A level class if you’re interested!)😉

Thank you @Ross for setting up and running the forum Thank you to the moderators for mod-ing so well (probably the best mod-Ed forum I frequent) and thank you to all the members for your advice, friendship and support. I know that I am a better referee for having been a member.

Just as a little aside, as we all get ready for the start of the second half I always ask (either captain or coach, depending on who is most convenient to me) if they’ve made any changes. OK - it’s the responsibility of the teams to tell me, but by giving them a prompt it prevents any possible...

Today’s results (to be read in the voice of James Alexander Gordon) Crystal Palace 4 Liverpool 2 Southampton 2 Manchester City 3 Everton 2 Arsenal 4 Newcastle 3 Fulham 4

Tops my two pitch invasions: A flock of sheep (to be fair to the sheep, given the state of the pitch, I reckon 6 days a week they grazed in the field, on the 7th it was used as a football pitch. So they were probably just coming home a little early.) An irate archer. About 10 mins in to a...

I agree entirely. I find it particularly difficult at night, under lights. (Note to self - next time I work with NARs, include it in my brief to really exaggerate the downward pointing of a flag when indicating a corner)

I earned myself big brownie points with something similar ... I was fairly new to this particular Sunday league, and it was the first time I’d ref-Ed these two teams. A cold, damp January morning, it was time for half time, and home team manager asked me to blow for half time when ball had...

Schools football: Sport in a school setting has been allowed throughout lockdown 2. However, no interschool fixtures (ie, those between schools) could take place (and the big competitions, ESFA, ISFA etc have been on hold) However, internal school fixtures have been allowed and played, so I...

If we are interested in consistency then the standard deviation is what we should be using. A lower standard deviation would suggest a more consistent referee over a season (now that may be consistently bad, good or indifferent, the standard deviation won’t tell you which.) if, as I suspect...