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Had a top of the table challenging match with an observer. Quite niggly. A lot of foul decisions and cards. Highlight for me was probably a reckless advantage in an attacking area. The fouled player didn’t use a great passing option and lost the ball. Play continued and I verbally reminded the...

Ignore parents, yes (unless racist etc.) But ignore coaches or players, no. You must use your tools. Stepped approach. Cards. And this is about you. When you learn more about how to handle low level dissent, you will be more confident and matches will be more satisfying. You must act on a...

Why do players do stupid things then lie about it? Joga bonita!

Just to throw in… on your x-ray quandary… it took my guys three goes with different scans to work out what was wrong and finally work out I didn’t have a Beckham/Owen break but rather the stress fracture AKA swelling AKA metatarsalalgia.

Ah dude I feel your pain. I have had serious metatarsal aggro. I didn’t fracture but I damaged my 4th metatarsal from repeated impacts (crazy intense ping pong training- true!). Swollen metatarsal head and officially “metatarsalalgia” complicated by the swelling trapping the nerve between...

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What he said …and after half a dozen adult matches you might reframe the “ignore the low level dissent” concept. You’re going to have a team that seem all chatty, nicey. Then after 30 mins you realise it’s the 4th time on the run that one of them has whinged again about a foul not given, or...

Where I am we have a lot of freedom to use comms. It works incredibly with colleagues that have been through our ref academy training - including those without much experience. And it can also be useful when you’ve got a much more experienced ref with beginner ARs. Problem comes with older dogs...

This is very specific to competition rules and will vary massively depending on what country you are in and what lesgue. This thread is a bit daft if the country and league is not clearly stated. You will get lots of contradictory answers.

As a learning point, if you hear someone in a grassroots game give it the ”ah” or ”argh” make sure you act on it. That doesn’t mean you have to penalize it - but at the next stoppage have a word with the player. Make sure it’s obvious to everyone. They will proclaim innocence. If you don’t do...

I was taught you can’t stop the game to warn players and restart dropped ball. There were offences, you just have to choose the first/worst. No one buys exact simultaneous offences idea. I can’t find in the book where the ref can stop play to warn players. And this is not in any traininh or...

(MO didn’t signal advantage on the Gakpo 2nd yellows did he? …I couldn’t watch properly as Miss Sangria was in tears as she thought she’d lost the cat. I watched about ten mins of the game properly - guilt ridden - in between stalking the neighbourhood cooing for my idiot cat, until 2am. Love...

The missing second yellows are a problem that the prem and PGMOL seem to have created. We are seeing game changing SPA fouls not given on second yellows to “keep 11 on the pitch.” It’s quite the departure from the LotG. I get it, here the Gakpo incident (like Bergvall the other week) the referee...

It presented poorly. He should have “found” a foul. Safe option is go defensive foul but give them both the Collina haidryer. But ideally the AR would inform the ref if the main instigator.

And we can only play advantage on a clear opportunity to score after a red card. I don’t think the law makes sense.

No, wasn’t a deciding factor. I just threw it in as presumably the law is (can only be?) designed to make sure the red carded player ”takes no further part…” in the game.

First 11-a-side of the season. Tasty winter league, minus one, 5-5 first half. Home are 5-6 down, 2 mins to go, fast break, reckless cynical hack just inside the away half. Reckless and SPA. Attacker down injured, second yellow for defender. I blow for the foul. Coach goes ballistic as the...

Great OP! Well done. Often match control isn’t about the fouls you give, it’s the things you don’t give and how you communicate those. You don’t need to punish trifling contact to keep control. Think about how you show players you are “in the game”: yes, seen it, not enough for me, small...

Really great show. Whole thing was excellent!

Serious 14 year olds, remember you are not there to coach them or parent them. You can be empathetic but stand up straight and find your voice. Be clear and firm.