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I'd have a good read through Ian Plenderleith's blog first! It's a shame he stopped reffing as I loved reading his blog. https://refereetales.blogspot.com/

In Wiltshire and Hampshire you'd be given a list detailing all the leagues (kick off times, fees, contacts) and have to contact them yourself.

I'd imagine any grassroots referee is giving this as a foul because in real time it looks like he's dislodged the ball from the goalkeepers control, and outside of some whinging and complaining from the attacker I doubt there'd be much debate.

Year three and first full year of Open Age. As others who are in the first few years of their refereeing journey have said, I've come on so much as a referee over the course of the season, and even when I drop an occasional clanger or have an especially challenging game, I'm much better...

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I think we agree that 5hit happens, and that the "delay flag" protocol didn't cause the injury. My point is the injury was avoidable in the specific circumstances and wouldn't have occurred with a different protocol.

It wasn't an officiating error and I've never said it was. Sian Massey did nothing wrong.

There is a clear rationale, you just disagree with it. I recognise when different sides of the debate are entrenched and not for changing, so there's little point debating further.

Yes, but it wasn't offside and therefore was not during a phase of play that was going to be called back.

It’s totally fair enough to disagree, but to say the flag or lack thereof had nothing to do with the injury and offering ludicrous comparators to argue against it when the rationale has been clearly explained is pretty feeble.

He’d deserve a little bit trimmed off the sentence.

Correct. What I would say is this. With the media and social media they way it is, the referees performance, decision making and "role" in the outcome of any game is going to be intensely critiqued, massively overblown and subjected to ignorant (in every sense of the word) comment and...

I’ve not blamed the officials at any stage, and very few others have either - the issue is with the directive that allows play to continue wholly unnecessarily.

That's a fatuous comparison.

I did include a link to the clip James.

Of course they’ll complain but that shouldn’t be a reason to keep the status quo. It’s not the first injury, it won’t be the last, and whilst of course you are correct this sort of injury could happen in normal, open play, it didn’t. I’m all for being wary of unintended consequences but this...

Agreed - if I was PFA I'd want the flag. The downside of changing the directive is that it will create another opportunity for officials to be criticised because it will almost certainly lead to the flag going up incorrectly, even if it's only a rarity. It's easy to say to LMA and PFA "you...

Awoniyi in an induced coma following his injury at the weekend. Let's all hope he pulls through. 🙏 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cn0g8qyjywjo It's long been talked about that the directive to let the passage of play complete before flagging offside would lead to an injury...

Great reflections @Homer Ref and good advice for newbies. Just finished year three and have occasional days/games where I wonder why I bother. Like you, I’ve stopped doing a certain league (that doesn’t appoint) for a certain club because of the behaviour of their coaches. The very same team...