Recent content by Aaron0812

Replying to myself just to say that I've found the following in the FA's website... Where a player deliberately heads the ball within their own penalty area, the referee will stop the game and restart with an indirect free-kick to the opposition from the nearest side line of the penalty area...

Same here. It feels like a weird one, but I think it would be technically right... It was actually very good defending! Can't find reference in the league handbook either. Think I'll drop en email to the league in the morning to clarify for future matches.

Hi folks Has my first game today and one decision has been playing on my mind a bit. Struggling to find clear clarification in the laws of the game so thought I'd ask opinions here. U12 game, no headers allowed. Attacking team through on goal, shot goes past keeper but defending team head...

Thanks for the useful advice all. As it happens, the game ended up getting called off an hour and a half before kick off... home team didn't have enough players 🙄

Hi all, Recently passed my course and have my first game to ref this afternoon. I've spent ages reading all the useful threads on here ahead of it. One thing though that occurred to me last night that I hadn't considered before. At half time, what do you do as the ref? I am not expecting...