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I’ve been the idiot who has done this before. Fortunately it was a Sunday league game and I realised before Monday morning so I contacted the CFA before anything went out. But all you can do is let them know, worse things have happened at sea

It does raise the question of how much I would accept as a fee to be shoved. Maybe £150? 😂

If a player pushes me (has only happened once in nearly 500 matches), I would (and did) abandon the match. It’s totally up to the referee to decide what they want to do and I hope you get support from your RDO and the player is handed a significant ban. Personally my view is that I am not paid...

Try the Suburban league who run reserve/academy matches midweek and on Saturdays

Sweating the small stuff here, but I’m surprised to see the match officials wearing a near-identical blue to Newcastle’s goalkeeper, given Newcastle have a green goalkeeper kit that wouldn’t clash with blue (match officials), Newcastle (black/white), Arsenal (red/white) or the Arsenal keeper...

Great spot on the penalty - took a moment to compute what happened and got it spot on

It’s VC for me - but my greater concern is his reaction to the red card. I hope his ban is extended for that.

From the angle in the video, I agree that the referee appears to be 100% wrong. This angle is less flattering for the W&H player (although obviously it’s just a still image so hard to tell much from it): I’m struggling to have sympathy for this tiny broken shinpad, however:

Yeah AR2 should only be making the signal if the referee hasn’t seen AR1 trying to get his attention. So in matches with buzzers/comms it’s basically unnecessary

Apparently friendlies don’t count towards 6-5, I have just learned. They do count at 7-6

Is he actually attempting to strike him? Looks like he possibly misses him on purpose. Either way it would have been a dumb way to get sent off

The only bit I am unsure of since the changes is whether the five lines for 6-5 have to be open age, or whether they can be u18 etc

Open age women’s games count towards your total for 7-6 and 6-5 (at least where I am anyway)

From my experience you’ll get lines on the CCFL if you are able to provide them with a couple of Saturdays a month. They have U23s and U18s you can middle on too

For me it’s a yellow for the hold (not SPA). But you’d be justified just giving a free kick

I suppose there could also be the weird instance that they HAVE had their kit inspected before kick off but then ran off to take a phone call/use the toilet before kick off etc and missed the start…?

If a team starts with fewer than 11 players, does a late arrival named on the teamsheet need to wait for a stoppage in play to enter the field of play? Or can they enter during play, provided they have the permission of the referee? I’d have thought they need to wait for a stoppage as...

Time’s up. You had 90mins to kick the ball around

A lot of divisions didn’t get finished. Some teams had six games left over and just forfeited them as they knew they were safe. One team stayed up on goal difference by forfeiting the last three games and taking 3-0 defeats, rather than playing three games in five days etc

Just comes back to my point that they should be picking up a flag a couple of times a year at a lower level. Yes it would be weird for Michael Oliver to run the line in PL2, but surely that’s better than him being unprepared to do it in the PL in case of emergency?