Morten
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I am asking these questions as a Norwegian referee, trying to understand what you deal with in England.
So, there is a lot of talk about CARs on here, which I have understood to mean club assistant referee. Which, if I understand it correctly is basically a person who is supposed to help you, but which will have a clear interest in one of the teams winning?
I remember, when I started refereeing I did give the home and away team flags to signal wether the ball was in our out. That was when I was reffing on worn down pitches with suspect line markings. And even then, I stopped as theses "CAR"'s decisions would almost always be worse than if I just did it myself.
So, when I read that these CARs also signal for offside I am surprised. Does this really work? The experience needed to judge wether someone is interferring is wast, and you trust a unqualified person with a serious conflict of interest to judge this? Of course, you can overrule him, which I read that man of you do. But that again would cause all sorts of new problems, I would think. With players moaning.
I don't quite get the refereeing system in England, with the levels (not sure what level I would be at in England, would really like to find out though), and different divisions (my only understanding of lower leagues in England comes from football manager, where the lowest league is Blue Square north/south). At what level and in what division do you get qualified ARs?
I love this forum, I am just asking as it would be easier for me to understand the context of many of the forum posts. No way am I knocking anyone for their use of CARs.
So, there is a lot of talk about CARs on here, which I have understood to mean club assistant referee. Which, if I understand it correctly is basically a person who is supposed to help you, but which will have a clear interest in one of the teams winning?
I remember, when I started refereeing I did give the home and away team flags to signal wether the ball was in our out. That was when I was reffing on worn down pitches with suspect line markings. And even then, I stopped as theses "CAR"'s decisions would almost always be worse than if I just did it myself.
So, when I read that these CARs also signal for offside I am surprised. Does this really work? The experience needed to judge wether someone is interferring is wast, and you trust a unqualified person with a serious conflict of interest to judge this? Of course, you can overrule him, which I read that man of you do. But that again would cause all sorts of new problems, I would think. With players moaning.
I don't quite get the refereeing system in England, with the levels (not sure what level I would be at in England, would really like to find out though), and different divisions (my only understanding of lower leagues in England comes from football manager, where the lowest league is Blue Square north/south). At what level and in what division do you get qualified ARs?
I love this forum, I am just asking as it would be easier for me to understand the context of many of the forum posts. No way am I knocking anyone for their use of CARs.