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Not for me either Fulham player on the turn and the Chelsea player making the challenge.

And me

Interestingly I delivered a WF Referees Course last week and when we covered player management I made mention of the Sheff Utd incident. Unanimous decision when asked what would then have done as a Referee (we seldom have assistants in WF) was a red card. The discussion progressed and it was...

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Is it possible that for the second incident , Refs shouting down the comms, “ Got them both pulling at each other there” ( or something similar) so no clear and obvious error for VAR to intervene?

So is your intention to carry out a Ted Roger’s impression every time a gk has possession of the ball?

Are we losing sight of the squirrel here? Why was this law change introduced do we feel? To stop goalkeepers clearly wasting time or To ensure every goalkeeper in possession of the ball gets it back into play within 8 seconds every single time they are in possession of the ball? I would wager...

I’m referring to the group of 4 with a 5th player laid on the floor behind them. I think every referee would agree that’s a wall. But did the 3 other players away from this group constitute being a wall? but was is a wall?

Clearly the player was within 1m of the main wall defending the goal and the resulting decision was correct. Changing the scenario slightly. What if the player had remained in their original position. Would the 3 Chelsea players stood in a line but not formed up shoulder to shoulder constitute...

I never thought about that, thanks. I obviously concentrated too much on the players original position in amongst three very loosely connected Chelsea players. The on field Ref obviously doing the same 🫣

That’s not what I was referring too. I stated that there was a wall covering the other post.

Thoughts on the disallowed Eze ‘goal’ for Palace against Chelsea? It appears that after a VAR intervention that the goal was disallowed for a Palace player being within 1m of a Chelsea ‘wall’. Now it didn’t look like a wall to me but 3 players stood in a line with a clear gap between one...

That was certainly the guidance given on the county new laws update we were given last week.

Attended an EFL league 2 game yesterday, didn’t even notice the referee commence a countdown, however both keepers were quite proactive at getting the ball back in play quickly. On another time wasting note the away team took an absolute age on every attacking throw-in in the final...

The guidance I was provided by our RDO was clear and anyone present at this LOTG update should not have interpreted the guidance in anyway that would result in penalising the gk in that instance.

We have a set of laws for the game but officials are clearly told to apply them differently at different levels of the game. Certainly a referee developer delivering a foundation referees course would not be advising brand new referees setting out on their referee journey to ignore such...

That happens to me on a parks game and the player suffers the consequences, unfortunately at that level of the game there are no consequences and to be honest I don’t expect officials at that level to act any differently. The players behaviour is a disgraceful show of disrespect to the official...

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I don’t think the referee sees the player get struck by the ball. The referee’s movement has her back to that at the point of impact and her body language as the game develops gives no indication (in the clip) that she is aware the player is out for the count on the ground.

Will it naturally follow that at the end of the current FA contract with Nike they will migrate to Puma? A big shift not just for referees but FA staff, FA Referee volunteers ( developers, coaches, observers etc) ?