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That's a great attitude...!

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No, but it's not "simple of that" is it? If your're just carding because something annoys you, then that's an abuse of power and you're gonna end up in trouble.

It's called "offensive, insulting or abusive language", not annoying! You can't just randomly send people off because they annoy you!

You seem to forget that select group officials started in grassroots football - they weren't just dropped from the sky into the Premier League and that they have experience of refereeing at EVERY level.

Yeah, I understand your point, but I'm saying that in the above circumstances this would not be necessary.

I'm not saying that you can't card for dissent, of course you can. All I'm saying is that the law (and also common sense) dictates that you can't give someone two yellow cards for the same incident!

No you can't. You can only punish an offence once. You can't go: 'that's dissent have a yellow card, actually, have another one too!' You either caution him or you send him off, but you can't do both. IMO, you got it spot on Matthew - well done!

That he has an approach centred around common sense when it comes to refereeing youth football.

I think probably one of those cautions was necessary. In my opinion, that was the first caution you gave out for dissent (you had already warned him, he carried on, fair enough). However, if players were persistently infringing why didn't you ask their manager to take them off? Also, in order...

Harry, don't take this in at all the wrong way, I'm not saying that any of this is your fault at all and obviously I don't know enough to properly comment but don't you think 4 cards in an U11's game is a bit much? Next game, why not try using the stepped approach? You said that people were on...

27 games - 1 yellow card. ;)

What an interesting analogy!

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I'm not getting involved...!

Well done mate! Haha, if you look closely, you can see lots of different reflections in each of the shields!

Well done Jack! Sounds like you handled it well!

Then why did he become a referee?? I understand that some people may prefer one or the other, as I myself prefer to run the line, but I still enjoy refereeing. I just honestly don't understand why you would become a referee if you hated it??

My question is - if they hate middles, why did they become a referee...??