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In real time, if they see it, nearly every referee gives this as handball. You can debate the theoretical answer but in practice you're giving handball.

Being more advantageous than a retake for the other team is a very low bar.

Unless it's a very small ref panel there's not many places it could be. Does seem an abuse of position but if it's a local league maybe not strictly banned.

This goal only gets given in England. What was said about player reaction only last week? I'm sure different leagues have different definitions of what an own goal is, there could be edge cases where the definition becomes relevant.

Technology and/or the operator fails, just get on with it. There's absolutely no, good, reason the subs couldn't have taken place without the board being operational.

Were you at Holbeach yesterday?

Just a concentration issue, looks as if the assistant has turned his head to look directly at the ball. The ball is a bit blurry so might not be exact kick point so maybe not as far offside as it appears here.

Was Allison cautioned for the challenge or dissent?

The ground is too hard you'll get standing water /puddles on the pitch. Get the yard brushes out. It's August bank holiday weekend though so imagine some clubs won't be too keen to get games on.

The average mark was never going to change significantly as you just to need to be able to add up to calculate it. They should've brought it when they changed the marking system, and kept the calculation under wraps. What frustrates referees is getting a well below average mark with no useful...

There was a penalty feinting in Brazil. I thought they had banned it before FIFA but apparently not.

Are those saying lack of player reaction is a determining factor going to disallow a goal if the defending team complains ferociously?

How many South American NT players play in South America? You'll be flying more administrators to the US from their home country than players, and I'm sure most of them would enjoy the jolly up in North America.

Webb has said they'll be less warnings and delays to warn about holding. There's always plenty of mucking about at these situations so not sure whether it's new. In futsal the count would restart from where it stopped.

This is how to do it, slowly returning but not actively stopping I think there was one when someone hid inside the goal but they were on the pitch slightly As @Big Cat says just put a toe on the pitch and he porbably still wouldn't see you.

Arsenal defender goes down injured after being fouled at edge of his own box. Player doesn't want physio but he's clearly hurt. Takes a good minute for game to restart with referee waiting for him to get up and limp back into position. Player didn't have to go off

Any easy thing they could do is make the sand based hockey pitches usable at grassroots level. Far more durable than 3G/4G, and safer than the concrete grass pitches they're currently playing on. In Spain you'll see dilapidated old 3Gs being used, they don't care until it's semi-pro In...

There have been cases of a red cards being overturned, strictly speaking the suspension being lifted, post match when VAR had failed to intervene. There was a case this case in Scotland regarding a player being found guilty of deception of a match official despite not VAR intervening...