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Just to go back to the OP - by way of practical management (minimising complaints), the logical guidance is to only stop play if you think (or have good reason to suspect) there is a serious (or head) injury, otherwise wait until a break in play to check on the player, thus avoiding lots of 1...

Can confirm, nothing really happened. Light got a bit dull and weird, but only lasted 20m. Play on!

Hi all, I've got a game kicking off at 1830 tonight (12th) in Yorkshire, and I've realised that the peak eclipse (95% of the sun covered by the moon) will be on about 35 minutes... Any thoughts on how dark things will get? I'm going to try move kick-off 10-15m earlier to align h/t with peak...

In a couple of PL games this week (inc Utd at Wolves just now), a ‘deliberate’ handball is given as a penalty (fine), and a caution. Just wanted to understand where the nuance is between a caution and dismissal in these instances - is it SPA if there’s other players in the way of the shot and...

Is there a consensus on which pocket means yellow/red? I’ve done a couple recently (to good effect) but with top pocket as red and side shorts yellow - again, guess it’s part of the prematch but wondering if there’s a ‘usual’

Thanks @JamesL!

Ah, I’ve misunderstood previously then. I’ve not had the definition of team official correct in my head (thinking it was only managers and coaches that are team officials that can be cautioned/dismissed etc). After consulting the good book, it’s anyone ‘official’ listed on the team sheet. At...

Understood that physios can’t be sent off. When imaging this scenario, I see chaos from both benches and half the players going nuts about the trip/interference in play. Then think it would be a hard sell to ‘just’ give a FK and warning to the physio, albeit correct in law… Suppose you can’t...

Like watching the David Brent of refereeing

Yeah I think that’s about the size of it. Very difficult to delay for a moment whilst assessing both situations in a couple of seconds but agree with the theory you said 👍

Yeah just outside the corner of the PA.

Here’s one I’d like an opinion on please team- Attacking team with the ball on the corner of the box, and attacker is fouled. The ball breaks to another attacker with a great sight of goal, and I expect him to shoot - giving a shout of ‘advantage’. However, instead of shooting (no idea why...

This would be the death of football - imagine trying to judge if a trailing ankle is behind a knee of the defender etc?! As it stands now, it’s usually the head/chest that is furthest forward which is much more obvious and easier to see from 30 yards away. Also imagine the appeals from players...

Cheers all - good advice. Can I borrow a few hundred quid??

Hi Ref team, I’m reffing my first cup final Monday night and have a 4th official to boot which is great. Having not had one before, how do I communicate to them (and the NARs?) how much time I’m going to add on? Is it as simple as keeping tabs on time and using a few fingers to signal just...

Point taken, but sometimes it’s nice when a particularly irritating player allows you to (appropriately and deservedly) remove them from the game

Interesting perspectives - to clarify, I’m quite happy with the process I went through - 2nd yellow for AA, esp as it was shouted at another player right in front of me. For me, I wouldn’t be dismissing if it’d been more discreet/in passing - my bar is a little higher. I felt he had to go as I...

Could’ve OFFINABUS but result was the same and it was an easy sell

I went for adopting aggressive attitude

Had a pearler on Saturday - 30m in, gobby player leaves a very high lazy foot in a tackle albeit without aggression - easy caution. As I call him over he starts shouting at an oppo player and calls him a tw*t which clearly upset the oppo (and me) so thought, he can have one for that too...