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If you call over a player to issue a caution and before you can take their name an incident occurs which the same player should be shown a direct send off, do you caution first and then immediately dismiss or is it correct to go straight to the red? If the latter I assume you only report the...

Hi - not posted for a while but looking for some advice please Cup game goes to penalty shoot out. Sudden death. Away team have a pen to win the game. It’s saved but the gk is 4 yards off his line when saved. So retake and they score meaning they win the game. Under the laws of the game I...

I am not a new ref, but my first game of this season this sat I will have NARs for the first time. I have acted as an assistant many times but not had to do the whole pre match chat before. I am sure there are previous threads on this site but has anyone got some advice or document to make...

I was on the line on Tuesday and was receiving a load of ubuse from the stand behind me. As per normal the comments they come out with are utter nonsense and clearly have no understanding of the laws of the game. I have always felt it quite hard to bite my lip and not correct them or respond...

i know this has been posted before but this is an area i get so confused on. Had a gobby person on the bench on the weekend. I said to myself one more stupid comment and I am binning him. He had already had a public warning. It then struck me he was named as player and manager. I didn't...

Hi guys Had a game today where I awarded a penalty. As the penalty taker runs up to take the pen the defensive captain screams and shouts trying to put off the attacker. Scores his pen, I allow goal, and call the captain over to book him for putting off an opponent. (But did he put them off...

Anyone track what distances they cover over 90 mins? I'd be intrigued with what people cover

evening all Something came up in a recent assessment which I'm not sure I agree with. The assessor suggested when counting the 10 yards for the formation of a wall for a free kick I should walk backwards to make sure the attacker does not move the ball from where it has been positioned. I...

if you have a player manager named as a substitute and he is being abbusive from the bench, do you send him off as a named sub or ask him to leave the technical area as a manager. If you send him off as a player then of course he can not be on the bench but can he remain in a manager capacity?

Had a game on Saturday with the luxury of ball boys. Goal kick awarded with no issues and all players run up field to gain position. The ball boy rolls the ball to me as the assistant monitoring the goal kick. Clearly should have gone to the gk. As it was right next to me I kicked the ball...

Ha got a game Saturday where my area assessor is being assessed and I'm on the line with him. How bizarre!

Did anyone see the Accrington game incident at the weekend? 0-0 and player in the box turns and shoots from about 8 yards as the ball enters or very close to being in the goal the ref blew for half time. The goa did not count. Why would he risk his match control by doing this. Appreciate he...

Hi all Not for the first time I had a club assistant who was giving some suspect offside decisions. They were not glaringly obvious and his positioning was decent but there was a few that I thought hard about overruling him. I didn't as this has caused me trouble previously. I'm in a no...

Strange one today... Away team make a sub as player enters field the home team start shouting, you can't bring him in he was playing on the other pitch. The same club had a team playing in the next pitch but in a different league. Is a player allowed to be named in 2 matches being played at...

a couple people of late have told me you can take a goal kick from a moving ball. One was a player so ignored him the second , in a separate conversation was a ref so maybe there is some truth in it?? Can anyone confirm? Should I be ashamed to ask this!

Hi all Need some advice/guidance. Sunday night I was putting through my cautions on the whole game system from the weekends games and as I played about on the website I noticed I had some games from a month or so ago that I had not been submitted. It seems I must have saved the cautions but...

Hi all Home team named 3 subs prior to the game. Second half 1st sub made then a bit later manager asks to make their last sub. I thought strange but maybe he meant that he doesn't intend to bring on the third and therefore his last sub of the match. Sub made. Only later in the half I...

Had a game today where a sub was also named as the physio. What would happen if this person came on as a sub, got sent off, would he be allowed back onto the field of play to treat someone with an injury as a physio? As he had been sent off in theory he shouldn't be allowed on the field of...

Got a game on the line today only my second appointment on this particular league. Got the confirm from the ref earlier in the week where he was kind to offer to pick me up to travel together. The other AR comes from completely opposite direction so agreed to meet him at the ground. Whilst I...

Been given my first cup final and buzzing. But now realise I've never had the benefit of assistants who are not CAR. What instructions do I give? Do I now take different positions on the pitch? I assume they control subs? Any other advice would be great. Cheers