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As a life-long member of the GK's union, I can attest to the dangling leg being dangerous - no hesitation in going reckless YC for that. The only occasion I can remember doing SPA was late in the game with opposition keeper up for a corner and teammate blatantly trying to delay other GK...

It's definitely not only football - this from the aftermath of the India v ****stan T20 World Cup game last Sunday : Former ****stan opener Salman Butt too has opined on the same in a video shared on his YouTube channel and slammed the ****stan players for not knowing the cricketing rules and...

I'm less bothered that players don't understand - that happens in other sports too. What irks me is when pundits and commentators have no idea - and on run of the mill stuff, not once in a blue moon 11th player going down injured during a penalty shoot-out type situations (and yeah I know...

Never a FK for me - and that comes from a referee who was a GK in former life. I do sometimes get frustrated when pundits say GKs are overprotected - try being the only player who has to have eyes only on the ball and is fully extended with ribs exposed. Mine are comically rearranged from...

Exactly this. IFAB can rewrite the handball law from now until eternity and you will never have all decisions being black and white - but there are certain situations in which players know they have to be particularly careful where they have their arms - sliding with the sole intention of...

I've only done a handful of Step 1 games as 4th, but in all of those potential replacement was worked out on the most senior of the other officials still active as a referee. So not the specialist AR, irrespective of experience. As one AR said, 'I haven't done a middle for 5 years' ! I'm...

Understand the distinction between seniority in terms of who replaces in the event of referee injury vs who takes benchside aka 'who goes Senior' in common vernacular. On choice of flags, to repeat my earlier post, unless it's different in different parts of the country and other countries...

If they have, it's not being implemented below Step 1 round here. Certainly not at contrib and all the Step 2 lines I have done so far we've had a discussion as a team of 3 about which way round to do it, taking into account all the usual stuff

Any idea what his logic is for this ? I can only think it relates to printed programmes and allowing spectators to work out which AR is which, but that's tenuous On every game I've ever been part of, if there is difference in the flags, senior AR gets the more patterned or orange one. That...

Very frustrating - Savage opened up on 606 basically saying it was the referee's fault - as if no PL manager can be expected to have any shred of self control. Reasons and excuses are not the same thing. Guardiola's behaviour around the VAR review was appalling as well. Thoroughly depressing...

Unbelievable Jeff. I hope someone has pasted the FA logo on this, rather than the FA being the actual source ?

I think you could make a case for red or yellow. Personally, I'm happy with yellow and glad to see VAR not getting involved in a judgement call like this

Agree - FK in shooting distance maybe 1 in 10 is indirect, if that, so uncommon enough to be worth pointing out. Nothing lost by a bit of extra communication, which is equally useful to attackers and defenders. Better than trying to explain it afterwards One other thing from an early...

On the field, referee the match not the occasion. Before the game you will have to adapt a bit to the occasion. Be prepared that there will probably be more to do and it will all take longer. Give yourself more time so you don't end up rushing. Work out what you want your fourth to do and...

I suppose there is a spectrum of situations that could fit under the description from pre-meditated playground style climbing on shoulders to something where, maybe as a byproduct of jostling in the area, the forward has ended up using a team mate's shoulders for lift. The former would...

FLOOR function does that

Sure I expect we've all come off games wondering why we bother, but for the majority of time for me at least it's either enjoyable or fulfilling and sometimes even both! Even when / especially when it's tough, it gives a feeling of being alive and involved I just don't get spectating, I'd...

In refereeing as in wider life, recognising when it is more important to be effective than to be 'right' is a key skill

In young kids' football, pretty much any injury is reason to stop the game - doesn't have the same threshold of seriousness as adult football. That means you tend to get more dropped ball restarts. Make sure you know the laws on that one and a good tip is to make a mental note of what the...

... but carrying on with fixtures next week, presumably up to the day of the funeral, including some games rescheduled from tomorrow. Whatever they did was going to upset some people, but feels like about the right balance to me