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https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/football/neil-warnock-fires-referees-chief-howard-webb-five-point-plan-to-save-var/ar-AA1jTG40?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=EDGEDBB&cvid=aa6bbae26a494e088301d059c7bd2995&ei=9 Neil Warnock has apparently put forward a five point plan for Howard Webb to "save VAR". The main...

A referee has been suspended for using a spectator’s mobile phone to disallow a goal in the Egyptian second division! The home side claimed a handball with the score at 2-1. None of the officials saw anything so he checked footage on a mobile before disallowing the goal. The home team then...

I have used the sin bin approach quite a lot, and on the whole I'm finding it works well. There are a few issues though. On Sunday I had a player telling me that I was wrong to show a yellow card for a dissent sin bin - apparently it should be a blue card. This isn't the first time I've been...

Another of football’s nice guys has passed away. 49 is much too young. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48568007

Again the “experts” show a complete lack of basic knowledge. Solihull goal correctly ruled out for offside when a player stops the ball for the kicker to kick again, while standing on the goal line. Decision met with derision because “the ball never went forward!”

The referee awarded a penalty after a VAR review, and needed quite a lot of help to get off the pitch! https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46041706

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I'm not sure how to write this, but I had a truly awful game this afternoon and need to say something. I had four cautions and two reds. But it was what happened afterwards I find worrying. I've refereed for over twenty years and have never come across anything so savage before. One of the...

My game this morning was reasonably feisty - 6 yellows plus a red - but one incident really made me think 'what?' Yellow were 2 - 0 up, stripes had got back to level. Stripes only had one sub, who had come on to replace a player with a pulled hamstring but gone off injured a minute later...