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There have been too many of these, and as a victim twice (to varying degrees) I'm getting fed up. What I'm asking is that, if you have been assaulted in the last three years, you drop me a PM with as much detail as you can of the incident and the length of ban if possible (or an email if you'd...

Back down in park footballl this Saturday(occasionally nice to get back). Easy, easy game - one team won 10-0. Team that are losing are eight down with 10 minutes to play and are attacking. I look back as the ball goes out for a GK to see the losing team's keeper having a crafty pint while...

So, first Sunday League game of the season today produced my first red cards of the season to boot. The first was simple, a yellow for calling me a pr*ck, a second for a deliberate trip to break a promising rampage down the left. Irritatingly the bloke stumbled and stayed on his feet - in my...

A couple of interesting decisions to talk about. Courtois is being talked about elsewhere, but how about Troy Deeney's tackle in the box for Watford, or Cameron Jerome's disallowed goal for playing in a dangerous manner? Or even the Diego Costa 'penalty'. Thoughts, people? Jerome...

Hooray! http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/05/sports/soccer/brazilian-league-tells-referees-not-to-take-it-anymore.html?_r=0

Let's play a game. Some of you may recall that I was assaulted in February. Here's the link, to remind yourselves. Basically, I abandoned a match in the 90th minute after a mass confrontation and, as I was walking back to the dressing room, was pushed over by a player. Having reported this, I...

Buggerbuggerbugger. 10(ten)-1, top vs bottom 8 yellows for the same team, all for dissent bar one. 2 red cards - a second yellow for a blatant shirt pull in the 42nd minute (first for early dissent after 5 mins 'Are you going to be up theirarses all day, ref?'). One more for more dissent. A...

One of the teams I was refereeing yesterday ran out of subs. Player injures hisback, and just wanders about the center of the pitch for the rest of the game (he can't run, his backhurts too much). Not my problem, so I leave him to it (actually I make fun of him mercilessly. We have a good laugh...

Really good short piece highlighting female officials, which, IMHO, should be shared widely. It's really fantastic when a major venue highlights officials, more so when it highlights the unfairly maligned minority of female referees. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/31740096

If there's one thing I hate in the world, it's 'European' referees (this is a catch all, knowing full well its a stereotype). Watching today's game between PSG & Chelsea, and wondering whether it'sa good refereeing performance, as the referee wasn't the centre of attention, and then realising...

What they call a 'challenging' game, euphemistically: dark blue lead 2-1 going into the second half. 1 yellow, a bit of moaning. Second half, early, corner for light blue comes in, bounces about a bit, and the big dark blue midfielder kicks the underside of light blue striker's leg as both...

Interesting case in two separate games: Game recently where I was running the line. One player tells one of his own team, jokingly, that he's a faggot. I let the ref know, ref does nothing. Another game, where I was in the middle. Player tells opponent to 'get up you faggot' (not a malicious...

Taken from my latest blog post, here. In a recent match between Green and Blue, I’ve had a lovely conversation before the game with Blue’s old-boy defender. We’ve had a laugh, and on the pitch he’s pretty much the same – ‘Get off the ref’s back, you’re not helping. He ain’t changing his mind...

Hi everyone. Decent level referee somewhere in England here. Have a blog, too, see below.