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Welcome! In the first phase there is no offence as player X is not actively involved. In the second phase, player X is not further forward than the ball so is not offside. Whether the ball is played forward or not is totally immaterial. Hope that helps.

Playing Devil's Advocate, would the 4O not display 7 minutes rather than 8? If 8 is displayed the final whistle cannot be blown at 7m30s.

One of the regular issues is that after we deliver a course the attendees should be mentored on one or two of their first five games. Other than Academies, mentor support is at best sketchy and in many areas it is non-existent. Now, if every match official in this forum would be willing to...

Most of that funding is done by The FA rather than CFA's.

Or a mandatory extra drinks/TV advertisement break🍕🍟🌮🍔🍺

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Do you not have staff for that sort of task? 🤔😁

Thanks for the info👍

Has that guidance been released across the board? Many CFA's and Competitions have the signal in their Captains Only instructions.

The 8-second law has been used by every referee I've observed in Steps 3-6, with a remarkably similar view as to the count and the timing. At Steps 5 and 6, the use of Sin Bins was really encouraging at first, but in 2026 has tailed off (sadly) in the games I have observed. There is also an...

Rather than trying to explain it myself, I have copied below a response from the Oracle @Peter Grove to a thread in 2019: The phrase was "seeking to gain an advantage" and it was introduced in 1978. The "seeking" part was removed in 1995, so that where before, most referees interpreted the...

"Gaining an advantage" related solely to rebounds from the goal frame initially.

I was younger then than I am now, and can confirm your memory is sound👍😅

An example of the benefit of using voice - "Going to the other team, gents" That creates a social contract and makes the required outcome clear. That said, on the basis of the video the attacker who played the ball did nothing wrong in law, and was very restrained when the opponents grabbed...

And surprisingly there were often disagreements🤔😁

In Hertfordshire you need a minimum of 25 games, with at least 10 being open age (according to the County website) There are two other requirements on the website for 7>6 candidates. Firstly you will need to register your interest in promotion - contact details are on the website. Local...

As a newly qualified referee, you should have been given free membership of the Referees Association, so the local branch should be able to help you. Failng that, the County FA should have provided you with a mentor in at least one of your first games - if not, e-mail the Referee Development...

From the 1996 LOTG: "(2) If a player leans on the shoulders of another player of his own team in order to head the ball, the referee shall stop the game, caution the player for ungentlemanly conduct and award an indirect free-kick to the opposing side"

Unsporting behaviour. That's been so for a long time. As an aside, the extreme example was initially put forward of a goalkeeper catching a cross, stuffing the ball up a team-mate's shirt, and the team-mate getting a piggyback from another team-mate to the other end and running into the...

I just searched - the FA handle it via KitAid.