Think he’s had a few..
Fa cup
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Boringly not, still sat at work. Despite our group chat banter
Well I guess I’m lucky I’m appointed to preliminary round so 1 more higher is better I guess.
Which in respect of an early FA Cup tie includes officials who have allowed on a 6th sub from the 5-0 winning team in the 88th min, whereby the game has been ordered to be replayed. I would not like to be in their shoes. These things shouldn’t happen but they do.
The amount of ridiculous things referees do which we talk in our RA meetings is crazy which officials are higher levels sometimes I question how those people get high marks and observations
I get it, but on the other hand, my view has always been and which I have to believe is that over the course of the season those who get promoted deserve it & those who get demoted are sometimes unfortunate but the stats don’t lie. In between that there are officials who can have a very good game with lots of incidents with an Observer in attendance who has recognised what took place and if represented by a high mark is likely to place them in very good stead in the merit table for the rest of the season. As to the specific circumstance of the to be replayed FA Cup tie, my experience is that most errors come about from a lack of time taken on competition rules, though it could also be they just took their fingers off the pulse!
At a game I was at the first 3 things the Referee said to his AR’s were no extra time/pens (therefore replay if a draw), no sin bins & 5 subs.
Completely agree. There have been so many mess ups over the years, whether it is deciding to play extra time or not, whether to use sin bins, etc. There's no excuse for it, you must know the laws of the game and all of the applicable competition rules.
It isn't anything new, I got a call at 4pm on a Monday night many years ago to go and referee a game that night. Turns out it was a replayed FA Vase game where the referee had played extra time when he shouldn't have (or vice versa), and the team that had won the first time around refused to play unless the referee was changed (the original referee was left on the game).
I am sure that most Referees want a big hole to open up when this happens, or to just remain under the duvet for a few days, but it’s not rocket science and the fundamental competition rules need to be known/understood.
I didn’t think we can assume that everything carried on as if it didn’t happen, though it looks like this was a very rare occurrence because I’ve never heard of such an incident happening before. Still should not have happened.
It is one of my instructions to my ARs now. Do not let me restart play if you think I have made a massive mistake. I would much rather explain a messy looking decision when we got to the correct conclusion then have to admit we all got a fundamental law wrong.