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This post is partly to debrief and partly for input. Had an interesting match today. This is about my 9th (?) game as a centre, so very new still! In fact I had not ever given out a yellow card before today - partly due to being new but also refereeing very young players who have been well...

I had a tricky situation in a match on the weekend. This was my 6th match as a centre. Attacking team is down by 1 goal and we're approaching full time. Defender holds the attacker a few yards out of the penalty area, I wait, attacker shrugs him off and plays a nice ball through to his teammate...

Hi all, I have some fairly basic questions that I am hoping can be cleared up: 1. During a penalty kick, can players have their feet on the lines marking the penalty area / penalty arc? Or do they need to be totally outside it? (I realise this is being a bit pedantic) 2. I have been doing...

I am a new ref and keen to get some input into the threshold for calling a handball for U8s. For the competition I'm reffing, the official rule is that an indirect free kick should be called when a player "handles the ball deliberately". Last night I was reffing red vs black: - red player...

Hi everyone, Glad to have found this forum! I’m Phil, I’m 45 and from Adelaide, Australia. I am new to reffing - I did a couple of my son’s U8 school matches last year, and this year have done some of his U9 school matches and several of his U8 club matches. Probably around 10 matches in...