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  1. GazzaJAnimal

    ENG vs IRA Matchday 2 - Claus (BRA)

    That keeper should be off for a head injury assessment. Minimum.
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    Offside - why do we have it?

    Personally, I think that if any part of the attacker's body is level they should be onside, as opposed to any part in front being offside.
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    Germany Ukr - Martin won't want to see the first again

    They way I see it is the IFAB/FIFA are asking players to suspend the laws of physics to appease the men in black. They are in effect saying that you have to stop dead when you have touched the ball. This is not possible as your momentum takes you on. Sometimes a player has no choice in following...
  4. GazzaJAnimal

    Orange Card?

    It was never a problem for me reffing rugby matches where I've had to caution a player thus 'sin-binning' him for ten. Even at grass-roots level with club assistants, if at all. There was never any bin as such, just the player had to spend ten minutes off the pitch thinking about his...
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    Referee punched by a manager at u7's game

    From what I read in the link I don't think it was anybody connected to Kingfisher Glory. Or have I mis-read it?
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    Jewellery.

    When I reffed rugby it was a given that refs wouldn't wear any jewellery. After all we were telling the players not to so why should we as refs?
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    Coloured kit

    For me referees should wear black at all times. Teams should not wear kits that clash with the ref. At all. Ever.
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    New Offside Rule

    That's the way I interpret it. This could be a biggy!
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    Balls

    I've been meaning to post on this subject for a while, but I've been busy. When tournaments come around we always get commentators and summarisers passing comment on how the match balls are getting lighter and that they cause problems for goalkeepers. This, to me, doesn't compute. I have...
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    Documentary about Refereeing in EURO2008

    I watched that too, thanks for posting Shepard14 I enjoyed it and I agree with Supermonkey that it could have done with being a bit more in depth (oh, and subtitles for the subtitles lol!).
  11. GazzaJAnimal

    Goal Line Technology worth the cost???

    Sorry if I should have added that I love all things German, the football including the kits and sportswear, the people, the food, the country as I have lived there and would gladly do so again if the circumstances were right. But, it makes you think?
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    Another question this time re kits.

    Oh no, it's me again...lol! When it comes to tournament play (ie World Cup, Confederations Cup, etc), who decides what colours the teams wear? The reason why I asked was that there have ( to my eyes at least) been a couple of strange colour combinations worn in the Confed Cup. While I haven't...
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    A couple of hypothetical questions...

    Thanks for all the replies chaps. It has occured to me that this could have been an excersise in opinions of consistency. What I mean is we've all heard commentators and pundits on TV spouting on about consistency, the need for it and why isn't there any from referees. While my intention with...
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    A couple of hypothetical questions...

    Hello chaps. As I have an enquring mind and reading up on the Laws I came up with a couple of questions to put forward to you all. One deals with impeding and the other dangerous play. First, a player is chasing a ball played over the top with an opponent running close behind. Realising he...
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    Goal Line Technology worth the cost???

    Am I being cynical that it's a German company that has been awarded the contract to supply the system? After all we have a German firm, adidas, that supplies referees outfits and match balls, and wasn't the ticket firm that dealt with World Cups, etc, a German firm too?
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    naughty celebration

    Thanks for that, clears things up a bit. I still think it's a poor show that someone, somewhere (probably someone who has never played the game) sitting at a desk in the bowels of FIFA gets paid to come up with that stuff!
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    naughty celebration

    I'm just playing Devil's advocate here. I still think that booking someone for celebrating scoring a goal is the ultimate kill-joy action, the vertiable party pooper! After all goals are what the game is all about! If I recall correctly I read that a player would only be booked if he celebrated...
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    Injuries

    We all know the scenario, a player gets injured and the ref stops play for the physio to come on. The 'magic sponge' does its trick and the player is OK to continue. Now the player has to go off the FOP to then come back on again with the referee's permission, which always irritates the hell out...
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    colour of whistles

    I used to use an ACME Thunderer when I reffed rugby matches made of metal so it was silver in colour. What a tone that bugger's got! Really easy to get different tones for different offences, short sharp blasts for FK's and long loud ones for penalties for example.
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