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Reading the IFAB FAQ and it has fried my fairly delicate brain, so I'm needing some help here. Is the FAQ contradicting itself or am I missing a bit of context; FAQ: When the ball is in play, a player leaves the field without the referee's permission and strikes a spectator. The referee stops...

Personally, I think this is ridiculously harsh. https://streamja.com/LyNeA Hopefully the link remains active.

Since the pricing seems pretty intense, and a lot of the stores online seem to have internal server errors, don't load, or simply have closed down, I'm wondering where buzzer flags are available these days? I know of three places; Firstly...

And yes, my game was on. Spent most of the second half camped in one half of the pitch as it was difficult to get out against the winds! Good game surprisingly, considering the conditions.

Happened this weekend, so I thought this was a fun one to post; Cup game; Team A has a player dismissed during the game. The game is drawn and goes to penalties; At the penalty shoot-out Team B must reduce their numbers. Team B asks if they can exclude their goalkeeper from kicks - i.e. the...

My old match wallet has given up the ghost thanks to a fairly sharp pencil. So, I ordered the usual from Amazon, only to find they've re-designed the wallet. Now, instead of plastic points on the corners to keep your match report in, they've extended the plastic to cover 1/3rd of each half of...

The highlights are up on the BBC for most of us. Around 1.20 minutes in, there's a huge hand ball shout. Giving it?

Last fixtures for me yesterday until the New Year, so it's an official break for me. How's everyone getting on with the season in 2021 so far? Are you on course from promotion? Are you fit? Have you sorted your Christmas presents yet? My season has been up and down; started off well, but the...

Can't work my way around Twitter, but this is very disappointing to see. I've no idea why people think it is acceptable to abuse people, let alone youngsters...

Everywhere I'm looking it seems to be out of stock, beside Ebay for whatever reason? What's the next alternative to the sexy Valkeen?

I'm aware of cautioning a player for entering the FOP without permission, but how about cautioning the coach for trying it on with an illegal sub attempt? To clarify the scenario further: Its been brought to my attention that in youth games where they have return subs, sometimes coaches will...

I'm a bit on the 'eh, what's that for?' side of discussion at the moment. Can only think it's DOSGO?

Had this happen in a derby match, repeatedly... :rolleyes: So, two queries: 1. Defender decides to do a sliding tackle with his head. Wins the ball, gets booted in the face for it as the striker was going to shoot/cross. What's your decision and sanction? 2. Same as above, but in the...

If you're watching; Maguire DOSGO? I thought he got away with it.

Just wondering, since I had an odd game today and noticed this when I was entering the cautions for my records; No cautions at all for foul tackles, SPA or anything of the sort. No dismissals either, so no SFP. (No card for the other USB offences either) Yet, I pulled the yellow card out four...

Stumbled onto this from Reddit; https://v.redd.it/d2bzdaaf9iq71 Hopefully the video link works. So, that penalty needed a VAR check to be called, and somewhat understandably, fan reaction is fairly negative. I admit, I watched it and it took me a bit to understand what was being...

My game was postponed today, so I went scouting to watch other referees and see some scenarios from the sideline instead. There were two interesting incidents I was seeing today that I wanted to clarify, an easy one and a tricky one. 1. Twice in the game, the referee blew the whistle and gave...

Out watching the Saturday football today, on a rare day off. So, penalty incident. Penalty was taken, hit the post, taker got a second bite at the cherry, skied it. Heard the whistle go and to my surprise (due to how late the whistle went) it was a re-take. From what I could see, the referee...

There was a ridiculous handball that the referee correctly dismissed the player for DOSGO-Handling. After he did so, VAR recommended a review at the pitchside monitor. I'm just wondering why? All i can see on the fan forums is chatter from the commentators saying they were checking if the...

I remember we had a discussion about this last season. Have any of you had any numbers on active referees for this season? My area has lost 80 referees since last season, which is a massive number IMO. Hope we have plenty of new blood coming in.