open age

New ref here. Had my first game recently. Open age league match, and I gave my first ever yellow card for a reckless challenge. Player apologised, and I had no significant incidents for the rest of the match. I was very confident it was RP, but after the match the manager and a few players...

Had my proper first game as an AR for Open Age it was league semi final. Game went well, others referee were great, players treated me like a referee. Will be starting to properly referee Open Age next season in the middle. Told the Open Age Coordinator for my league about it several months ago...

How do you guys go about gaining confidence when going into a fixture. I find it that when I'm refereeing youth football I have the confidence as I'm older than most of the players. However when I refereed my first ever Open Age match I didn't have that confidence and because of that game it...

Okay, so I’m 20 years old and starting reffing as a recommendation from my uncle. He’s been at it for at least 10 years. Anyway, I’ve been kind of thrown in at the deep end. I’m reffing open age straight away, this Sunday. The lads have been made aware I’m a trainee, but to be honest I wished I...

I'll begin by saying that I know we got it right, but things could have gone quite wrong. That's why I seek a bit of advice. Adults game, good regional division. The ARs are good friends and very good referees I can rely on, and we use communicators. It's 0-0 and just 7 minutes left on the...

Hopefully, there's somebody on here from the East Midlands area that can answer this: I'm currently at Level 7 with Derbyshire FA and have been refereeing youth football for 4 seasons. I'm looking at gaining some experience at open age level, preferably starting out acting as an Assistant...

Not exactly a new ref - been reffing youth leagues for just over 2 years but want to make the transition over to open age football. Hoping to referee an adult game in the next few weeks before the season ends, any advice on dealing with adult football? How different will it be to youth games...

Hi there been refereeing for about 2 years now mainly doing u13/14 but want to step up to higher ages groups and open age. What advice do you have when making the step up to u18/open age? Thanks :)