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One of the adult Sunday leagues in our area made it absolutely clear it was mandatory that you CANNOT play between 10:59 and 11:02 am. The games kicked off at 10:30am.

I was watching an isthmian game earlier and there was an offside which was given and that player passed it and then the other player shot over the bar. No caution and not even a word. Are we still clamping down on kicking the ball away, etc ?

I never knew that- Thank you. There are a couple of teams in the league which their first teams play in the national league south, so that could be why ?

Do you know what category isthmian u18 is ? As these don’t use sin bins. However, the isthmian u23 did (I believe the u23 league has now folded)

I find there really decent down where I live. It’s not that common you find one who is dishonest. I coach a u16 boys side and (of course) referee, so get to see plenty of club assistants. Most are fair.

Clear signals and look confident. Listen to the referee’s pre match brief. Don’t be flagging and getting involved for everything- try and see what the referees’ tolerance level is for fouls.

Should the Crawley number 6 have been cautioned as he ran straight to the referee and got, not quite in his face but close enough and looked quite aggressive ? Looked like he was demanding something !

Liverpool down to nine men !😨

Sussex allow club AR’s to flag for offside.

This is quite interesting. I was watching an isthmian league game a couple of weeks back and there was lots of thunder (even a few bits as the teams were walking out) and the game was played through with no stoppages.

Thank you!

Thanks Rusty. I think i’ll be able to recognise a challenge like that better next time now.

To be honest, I’m not actually sure. The only reason I think I went yellow is because I took so long to decide, I think I talked myself into just booking him. It must have been about 45 seconds to a minute after the tackle that I actually reached into my pocket. I first checked if the player...

100%. Thanks James.

Definitely! Thank you. I’ll make sure that next time I get it correct. I know what needs to be done next time

I had an interesting game last night. It was county level u23’s and I was in the middle. It finished with 8 yellows and a straight red. Unfortunately, I dropped an absolute howler. In the 63rd minute, a tackle went in. It was two footed and completely out of control and about 2 foot...

I’ve just read through that. I don’t think I’ve ever stepped out the changing room. But to be honest, most of the officials I work with just change shirts over or that sort of thing. I think I ought to start telling the officials I shouldn’t be changing with them!

I’m sure there are no sin bins in the FA cup, and congratulations on the appointment.

Agreed. It’s a difficult situation to be in sometimes. It can be a very fine line between dissent and OFFINABUS. I do a lot of step 5-6 lines and I had a player look at me when I had given a goal kick (he wanted a corner), the referee (level 4) agreed with me and the player looked at me, then...

That’s perfect- thank you, Russell. I appreciate that.