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The Kane offside call was the very essence of 'challenging' was it not? He was challenging before he was pushed and therefore the offside offence occurred before the push.

Anybody giving a back pass from Fredrick there?

How do you get it right if you can't see it?

As a former goalkeeper, I hate to say I used this type of leading leg a bit. Not so much studs up but I justified it by thinking it was a protection mechanism. It sometimes cleared the striker out but as I'm a big guy, a lot didn't bother. I could always say 'I got the ball ref' and was never...

Thank you. I shall now retire.

How do you know he deliberately didn't set out to handle the ball? I call he did on the basis of the timing of his dive. This avoidable talk reminds of a recent video foul discussion in which a player went to ground only to pull his leg back in when he realised he was nowhere near the ball. He...

First view I'm giving nothing as view obscured. Second angle, yellow to blue. Went in recklessly studs first. Yellow went in with instep and got ball.

Handballs at .43 and 1.08. Doubt if the REF or AR could see the first but no anyway. A player who trails his arm like that is a save - surely a pen? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47187873

The 'so what' is the 'fact' that minimum time in reality is the actual time, unless an attack is on.

The delay of the whistle allowing the goal happened at the Doncaster v Palace yesterday. I'm not sure where the 1 min injury time came from in the first place but if the ball was in the centre circle come 45+1 mins exactly, the whistle would have been blown. Instead it was near the Donny...

Whilst the coach is doing a favour in respect of getting the game on, he's lessening the experience for his own players by constantly telling them what to do whilst also confusing the opposition. There's also a second coach who's also shouting from the touchline to such an extent that the...

Rugby's odd though. You even get international refs telling players to move away and stay onside. Can you imagine football refs doing that?

I must disagree with you on the small sided not being real football. It is to them, it is to the FA and it is in respect of their learning. I managed to get my son's team doing throw ins properly within a week of me first reffing them. No other ref ever picks them up on it though so now they...

Having just retaken the course after 22 years of non reffing, I do remember being taught to explain what the caution was for, hence the comment ' well you are'. He got a second yellow from me on the day anyway and everyone was nice after that. Nowadays I'd just state dissent and we probably...

I find it slightly odd that the FA instruct the ref to 'coach' a player with a second throw in should the first be a foul throw, as we're not qualified coaches at u9-11 football. But it is ridiculous to hear a coach who is reffing to call his defence to step up to get an offside. That ref/coach...

How would people deal with a player who said 'you're a bloody joke ref' and when you explained why you were cautioning him (25 years ago) for saying you're a bloody joke ref, he replied, 'well you are'. Would you give a second yellow?

I do enjoy your comments CM. I was playing devils advocate a bit because that was the suggestion made by a FL AR for a similar incident at a recent RA meeting. The assessor noted red though which I was pleased to hear.

How about, he pulled out of the challenge, didn't go with his studs, just a bit reckless.

This annoys me as it is a fundamental health and safety issue in that your concentration and focus can't be 100% on the refereeing of the game if you are also telling players what to do and where to go (which they shouldn't be doing anyway). The FA also says not to coach whilst reffing even in a...

Having previously qualified 26 years ago and gone back to playing, I’ve just been through the local referee course to re-qualify and have now been let loose (the course is very quick these days). I find offside a very poorly explained law. While the course covered the basics, it didn’t cover...