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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.

I don't know whether it still happens, but The FA used to donate new and used kit to countries with a lot of football lovers but not a lot of money.

I suspect that the IFAB decision was made after the nonsense in Africa, rather than Tank asking the Dog and Duck Reserves AR "Are you sure, lino?" about a throw in decision🤔

My learned colleague may wish to make it clear that in this instance, SAR stands for Subject Access Request, not Specialist Assistant Referee;)

Not the most helpful CFA website - just e-mail or phone to ask the question. Most CFA's open applications when the current season ends. Good luck!

From my somewhat limited experience of Subject Access Requests, I think you could apply to be sent your own marks (but probably only that, not the Merit Table.

Why do refererees need to know the pool average throughout the season? In deciding which pathway to follow, an individual mark for refereeing, and one for AR appointments, at the end of the season would inform the official sufficiently. A pool average for the season could be released at the...

In England, as from this season the Observer does not see the total mark they have awarded to the referee, which (IMHO) is a step in the right direction. A radical change would be to not display the total mark to the referee, and even more radical would be to stop issuing "merit tables" at...

Give me 3 months to come up with an answer😂

Full time Observer 💡🤣

Allowed in those competitions which authorise their use - which includes the Premier League (and many other leagues all the way down to semi-Pro)