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As he is a match official he will probably receive a time-based suspension from all football. This could make it harder to achieve promotion criteria. Apart from that I'm not aware of anything that would affect promotions from 7-5. For 5-4 it could affect his promotion more significantly as the...

My only problem with this is that the corner should never have been allowed to be taken with the amount of holding going on. PGMO has really made a problem for itself in this incident with its approach to holding.

It was their guidance to Level 4+ refs. My county adopted the same approach.

The FA's guidance that the Captain's Only Protocol should not use a visible signal has made it really impractical. By the time you've told everyone you'd already be surrounded.

The finger movement as they brush the ball is the conclusive evidence. The change in ball trajectory further supports. This is one of the rare occasions when I think VAR would have benefited from taking a bit more time and examining more angles. Some of the earlier posts in this thread discuss...

Are they perhaps suggesting that the FK offence is PIADM (i.e. an opponent can't reasonably challenge during these kinds of acrobatics for fear of injuring one of the attackers).

I think I agree with pretty much everything Collum has to say except the first one being a C&O error, I think it is a debatable call and there seems to be an over-emphasis on impact.

As a first season L4 I'm pleased they've offered the earlier opportunity to specialise. I have been thinking for a while about going SAR because I feel it is where I perform most consistently well, and gives the better opportunity for progression as an AR with operating on the dugout side more...

You probably have a right to access it under GDPR as it is personal information about you. If the individual marks have been kept then you may have a right to those too.

Nationality is part of the 'race' protected characteristics (though this would also come under ethnicity and national origin). Insulting, offensive or abusive language is a red card so probably should be the result as it is a potentially aggravated offence, and the anti discrimination protocol...

I hope PGMO keeps up its stringent approach to this, I'm confident that those few players still tempted to pull hair will soon get the message and this may then give the authorities some food for thought about how to address the more prevalent problem behaviours affecting our game.

It's there in 12.3.

Better clip here skip to 3:14 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/videos/c62j0yqzn8vo Martinez goes for it twice so it's definitely intentional and it is not negligible force.

I already asked IFAB. Their answer was it was redundant text so taken out. So we can take from that there is no practical change to how these situations should be refereed.

Yes the attitude of the players was very different but that case serves to highlight how the authorities assess deliberate contact on a match official by a participant. @RustyRef the FA could charge him, the regulations state 'The Association may issue a Charge against a Player in relation to...

In the Mitrovic case the commission stated "'excessive force' in the context of a match official falls to be considered from the admitted starting point, namely that it is unacceptable to use any force or put hands on a Match Official." Furthermore the commission agreed with the FA's application...

It is Nike for next season though I don't know when it runs to. I assume it is the Referee III range as what else would it be?

There is no change to sending off offences, although it could result in fewer second cautions. The DOGSO change means a player will no longer be cautioned following a goal scored after advantage. i.e. it will now be DOGSO offence, no advantage, free kick awarded = sending off DOGSO deliberate...

Law 4: How practically are referees supposed to know if an 'accessory' is dangerous if a player has covered it? Are we expected to ask all players to show us their 'accessories' before they cover them? Why no restrictions on the colour of coverings when we have restrictions on the colour of...

Each to their own. Trainee referees might be encouraged to avoid social media, because it can cause headaches for County FAs if misused. But there is no blanket ban. I've followed Eric Edge's YouTube channel 'Behind the Whistle' since it started. It hasn't done him any harm yet as a L5 and it is...