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Potentially a silly question but I'm just wondering everyone's thoughts. I started this season reffing my local men's league, after a few games decided to get back to playing and have since then been signed on as player and haven't reffed any games in that league. The appts secretary no longer...

U16s today, one of the club linesmen was a bit odd. He's a qualified referee in the same league but a parent of one of the players. During the game a couple times he tried flagging for fouls/handballs which I ignored and told him to stick to the basics I asked for before the game. Twice he...

Ball is going towards the keeper and being chased by an attacker. Keeper catches the ball, attacker runs past very close to him 'brushing' against him shall we say, minimal contact but it's enough to set off a defender next to them both, resulting in both defender and attacker acting like idiots...

Interesting one in an OA super low level league today, I'll try to describe as best as I can. Striker from team A is chasing down a random long ball, right next to him is a defender(1) from team B also chasing back, we also have team B's goalkeeper coming out. There's also another defender...

Had my first game today, amateur level open age (think it's the 15th or 16th level starting from the Prem). The boot/jewellery check - I just watched for shinpads/jewellery/any unusual boots as both teams left the changing rooms and reminded them to take any jewellery off. Is this enough or do...