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These things should be taken seriously. I gave a yellow card to a player and she put her hands on my chest and pushed me away. Nothing violent or forceful, just a push. I red carded her and she left. Never occurred to me to abandon. When I put my report in the league gave her a 12 month ban.

Too many refs refer to "foul and abusive" language. A phrase taken out of the Laws nearly 30 years ago. We now look for "Offensive, Insulting or Abusive" language or actions. This means that just swearing is not sufficient, it needs to insult or offend you. From your example if what the...

The referee could assume he stopped play as he ran in and players were arguing. The pushing then happened while ball was technically dead. Since he stopped play to deal with this an IFK is given when a player: "commits any other offence, not mentioned in the Laws, for which play is stopped...

Look at it logically, had the player not handballed then as you say, the keeper might save it or might not. But it would have been a goal scoring opportunity. And the handball denied it.

I believe that we are now getting to the point of the Law, the Law states: "deliberately kicked to the goalkeeper by a team mate". All three need to be there to be an offence. So: 1 If the ball has been kicked by an opponent, there is no offence 2 If the ball was kicked by a team mate and...

You are mistaken. This would count as a "backpass"

This is no contest. Yes, players cheat, feign injury, waste time. We could bring in all kinds of stricter Laws to prevent this, but they carry the danger of letting a serious head injury go unchecked. So let's weigh up the alternatives: A Present Laws: injuries get treated but cheating is...

Absolutely correct. For there to be an error in Law you would need to prove that the referee misapplied or did not understand the correct Law. If the referee merely was mistaken about where the last touch on the ball was, then there is no case at all for appeal.

Move to Australia. We have online team sheets and merely write down a player's number. If there is any argument later that is the league's problem.

Used to be more simple? No way. Here is the Law as set down in 1996, 28 years ago. (3) (a) If, after having given the signal for a penalty-kick to be taken, the referee sees that the goalkeeper is not in his right place on the goal-line, he shall, nevertheless, allow the kick to proceed ...

I do believe there was a game in one of the European competitions where the referee asked for a list of first five penalty takers. When the coach said it was not compulsory to give one, the referee insisted on it. After the game protests were made and FIFA clarified that a list need not be...

It was changed in the major rewrite of the Laws in 1997

How about this: Red team go behind in last minute of important match. They come up with a tactic that involves entire team lining up at half way line and rushing forward as ball is kicked (sort of like in Rugby). Keeper takes kick off and entire red team race forward. Ball gets caught in a...

I am 65 years old and started reffing when I was 53. I find I can do two full length adult games on a Sunday. Any more and I certainly do cramp up.

It sounds to me like you did a good job under difficult circumstances. I don't think you sound like this game has made you want to throw it in. What I would like to say to the many refs who complain that players' attitudes have made them want to leave the game, is simple...referee ladies...

If we lump everyone who is not actually currently playing (subs, sent off players, team officials) as BENCH and we call actual players, match officials (and EVEN THE BALL) as PLAYERS then it works like this: During course of play on pitch if at least one PLAYER is involved DFK PEN or IFK...

As above, put very simply: When You See Lightning, Count The Time Until You Hear Thunder. If That Is 30 Seconds Or Less, The Thunderstorm Is Close Enough To Be Dangerous – Seek Shelter (if you can't see the lightning, just hearing the thunder is a good back-up rule). Wait 30 Minutes Or More...

Actually he doesn't, he is attacking the way the Law is interpreted, not the Law itself. Actually the Law is IMHO very well expressed. If we actually only gave handball offences when players were clearly making themselves "unnaturally bigger" (plus of course the deliberate ones and the ones...

There is a real problem for the IFAB here. For many years the handball Law was as simple as you could wish: Handling must be deliberate - full stop. This lead to occasions however when goals were scored from accidental touches. Coaches and broadcasters moaned. So IFAB got themselves into...

The grey areas might be similar but the repercussions are vastly different. Imagine a "goal-line" handball in the last seconds of a vital game. Today we give a penalty, but that could be missed: it is still in the hands of the players to decide the match. But if we give a goal, and then blow...