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Personally, I’m not too bothered one way or another - one set of rich people get annoyed at another set of rich people. Top level football is now so far removed from me, I’m not really too interested in it. Purely by coincidence, but turned out to be excellent timing, on Monday night I saw...

Happy to register my interest. if I can get my hands on a copy for less than a tenner, I’d by one.

This is my latest purchase: https://urlsand.esvalabs.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F3eb2QOJ&e=1997c094&h=6be69545&f=y&p=n With changing rooms currently closed, this collapsible stool is great: fits in my bag, no more sitting on wet grass to change into my boots at the side of the pitch. All...

Have a look at this free kick from Oldham. I think it should have been disallowed, when the ball was struck at least one Oldham player was within 1m of the wall. Easy for to spot when watching several replies in my armchair, less easy for our man in the middle. Any thoughts?

I think it does matter. Essentially what they have done is plotted 10 points on a scatter graph, drawn a line of best fit, and used the equation of a straight line (y= Mx + c) to come up with an equation for expected penalties. This is from a data set of circa 1,000, so if you pick a...

An interesting table that suggest this may be worthy of further investigation, but two immeadiate thoughts spring to mind that could improve this work: 1.) To create the metric “expected penalties“ what they’ve done is they’ve taken 10 players (all English) and compared the number of touches of...

Maybe you could have suggested that next week he takes up the whistle again to help out those games that didn’t have a ref .. ;)

Was great to be back. in first 10 mins I was able to play a couple of good advantages - in normal times I suspect both fouled players would have stopped and called for a free kick, but you could just sense the enthusiasm of the players and they just carried playing and, although ultimately...

Somewhat coincidentally, my game tomorrow is for the same club that my first game after lockdown one was. That was a friendly, tomorrow is a league game. Friendly on Sunday (my Sunday league restarts in two weeks.) Aching legs on Monday?! I have done my best to keep fit, but a back injury...

Slightly different, but I had a former pro - who was once sold for a million pounds - lined up to play for my vets team. He sent me a text on the Saturday before the Sunday morning game crying off as he had pulled a muscle whilst having a kick around with his 14 yr old son. Didn‘t invite him...

I’d give that. He’s wrapped his arms around him, not very subtle, and then gives him a much more subtle “nudge” with his shoulder. Penalty

Not sure that’s a suitable question for an U8? ;)

There are two main bodies (in England) that oversee schools football ESFA (for all schools and colleges in England) and ISFA (Independent Schools FA, for independent schools) As a rule of thumb, ISFA are more organised and update their website more frequently, so is always worth a look/check...

@PinnerPaul has it spot on. What may/will happen some inter-school football will take place next term (summer term) when normally there is little or no inter-school football

I’ve been booked in for my first two games: a team that are in the Sunday league I ref in have been in touch to book me in for a couple of friendlies on Sunday 4th & 11th April. The league are talking about restarting on the 18th. To be honest, I’d rather be ref-ing on a warm Sunday in April...

Match record: who records what. I’d be telling one AR to record goals, the other to NOT record goals but keep eyes on pitch whilst R and AR have heads in notebooks writing down score. Do you want an AR to also note down cards? I’ve been asked to do this in the past, but to be honest it’s not...

Have you seen the League Two table today*? if not, you should take a look. (This rare occurrence won’t hang around for long, so if you’re a little late to the party and already missed it, I preserved it for posterity on my blog: http://www.amathsteacherwrites.co.uk/top-ten/ ) *Friday 26 Feb ‘21

Hi Ross, can I take this? Jeff

Of more concern to me, in pics 4, 6 & 10 it looks like at least two different players are not wearing shin pads?

Perhaps now we’re teaching remotely I can squeeze you into the back of my virtual classroom... (Next up: Vectors in 3D with my year 13 A level class if you’re interested!)😉