Hi all, just a few questions. I was recently reffing an U12s match and I had to stop the match at least 6 or 7 times for kids dojng up their shoe laces. I kept having kids shout 'ref then pointing to a kid dojng their laces but by then a thrown in had been taken but this resulted in the team with a man down complaining that play wasn't stopped. Anyway i ended just getting the team to retake the throw in. However, when I was actually playing myself (I play in an adults team) people would just do up their laces, including myself, without the referee stopping play. So may question is should I stop play when someone is doing their laces? I'm guessing it's just a youth thing as it was exactly the same when i was playing youth football.
Secondly, in that same game the goalkeeper was complaining that his vision was being blocked by a defender during a free kick. I didn't know what to do as my coach tells players in our team to annoy the goalkeeper so I just decided to leave it. Was this the right decision though as I'm really not sure?
Finally, a really general query about free kicks. Basically I'm having trouble determining what is a foul and what's not because there's some fouls that i penalise and others that I don't but either way sometimes the team being penalised are completely confused about why I gave the foul. Anyway, I was just wondering if anyone knew any websites or has any advice about giving free kicks.
Thanks
Secondly, in that same game the goalkeeper was complaining that his vision was being blocked by a defender during a free kick. I didn't know what to do as my coach tells players in our team to annoy the goalkeeper so I just decided to leave it. Was this the right decision though as I'm really not sure?
Finally, a really general query about free kicks. Basically I'm having trouble determining what is a foul and what's not because there's some fouls that i penalise and others that I don't but either way sometimes the team being penalised are completely confused about why I gave the foul. Anyway, I was just wondering if anyone knew any websites or has any advice about giving free kicks.
Thanks