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They are never going to completely stop holding, pushing and jostling at set pieces. It isn't new, I haven't played 11-a-side for the best part of 20 years and it happened in every game back then (I know because at just 5'9 I was the best header of the ball in the team so had to pick up people...

All fair points, I just don't think any referee at this level is going to create problems for themselves by disallowing a goal when there are zero complaints from the defending team, all their ire was aimed at the keeper. Even more so when it was for something that isn't specifically mentioned...

Already being discussed here https://refchat.co.uk/threads/crewe-goal.26580/#post-289190

As you said, he went off the pitch naturally and I can't see anything in law that says he must return immediately. Whether spirit of the law or what the game expects, I suspect the vast majority of people in football would expect this to be a goal and just put it down to rank bad goalkeeping...

3G pitches wouldn't help with the number of teams disappearing as they are much more expensive to hire than grass pitches. Its over £200 to book a 3G pitch in London for a 90 minute 11-a-side game, grass pitches can be half that amount.

That's where I'm at with it, he misjudged the deflection and mistimed playing the ball, resulting in it hitting his arm. The only deception here is not admitting to the referee that it hit his arm, and no professional player is going to do that. It has been used before where penalties have...

The EFL have been trying for years to get the EPL to give them a greater cut of profits and are still no closer. Clubs at the top level are hammering their own supporters at the moment, increasing ticket prices, moving season ticket holders from seats they have had for decades to accommodate...

Still think you are trying to fix a problem that isn't broken. I have never met a single person, before you, that thinks the law about not allowing keepers to handle balls played back to them is a problem. As far as I am concerned that was the best law change ever, it made a massive...

But who paid for that facility? 90% of grass roots teams in England play on grass pitches, it just isn't practical for all teams to use 3G. To use the most obvious example, there are 58 grass 11-a-side pitches at Hackney Marshes and they are used all weekend, to convert all of those pitches to...

Indeed, in the London area you aren't getting change from £1.1 million to install a new 3G pitch, that figure comes from Sport England. Might be cheaper in other areas of the country, but not by a massive amount. Then you have the annual maintenance cost which they estimate at 3% of the...

I would argue that if there is one law change that should be left well alone it should be the "back pass" one. Arguably the most successful and universally accepted law change to ever be made, I really don't think there is any issue to fix. And with the current fixation of playing out from the...

I'm not aware of any regulation that allow a CFA to interfere in what referee fees a league pay. It came up in London years ago where the Turkish league were offering way more than other leagues, it was known as danger money as so many referees had quit due to the levels of violence. The other...

Again, down to individual leagues. On the league that I'm heavily involved in 10 of the 11 committee members are referees or ex-referees, and the other one is the wife of an ex-referee. Disciplinary hearings have always been a bit of a lottery. I can remember my first one in London where the...

Well someone from the league should have grown a pair and took the CFA to task, as they have zero jurisdiction to do that. You frequently criticise football authorities, whether that is CFA, the FA, or leagues, but have you thought of getting involved? You have a much better chance of...

Move leagues then. In that same time period the fees have increased 5 times on one of the leagues I'm involved with. I suspect you have been spun a yarn there as CFAs have absolutely no power to veto referee fee increases, and haven't had for decades. It can only be done at a league's AGM, it...

Completely agree, I'm just saying that from his position it would have been easy to go safe as he wasn't looking at it from a great angle. I do think he got it right, but I'm not sure he can have been 100% certain given where he was stood, and he gave it immediately so there was definitely no...

Completely agree. There have been so many mess ups over the years, whether it is deciding to play extra time or not, whether to use sin bins, etc. There's no excuse for it, you must know the laws of the game and all of the applicable competition rules. It isn't anything new, I got a call at...

Looks from his body position that he was definitely inside, certainly a very brave decision though as the safe option would have been free kick.

The game isn't there for referees, it is the other way round and without the game referees wouldn't exist. I've been critical of law changes in the past but the recent ones really seem to work, they speed up the game and cut out time wasting and gamesmanship. Yes, they require additional...

I observed him at step 5 and pretty clear there he was going places. He certainly has the potential to go to the very top.