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Wow, no words.

With greater direction to clamp down on technical area infringements, what do you do if there is not technical area marked (95% of my games)? Not possible to sanction or we imagine a standard box?

Bit of a bizarre one in my match tonight. Attacker is just about to shoot in the box, as he draws his foot back defender clips the back of his heel, but attacker manages to get the shot away anyway, hits the bar and ball goes out. I award a penalty as in my view the clip on heel was careless...

Goes to refchat Monday morning to see the lively debate on Lindelof handball incident, but finds myself as OP! So, what do we think then, handball or not, and why do we think VAR did not review?

Hi All Something I struggle to get consistency with, the line between a defender pushing an attacker in the back versus right to stand ground (prompting shouts of hands in the back ref!). Any advice on this please, what tips or general rules do you use?

I see in the news today UK government have released new guidance for grassroots sports around concussion, although by looks of it much of the key messaging has been in the FA guidelines published in August 2019...

Incident today. Defender deliberately passes back, keeper misses a kick at it, ball hits post, rebounds back out and keeper picks it up. IDFK or play on?

[start thread] Solid game, right calls and managed the game well. [end thread]

Hi All Sent off a player today for handball in penalty area that stopped definate goal, coaches shouting it should be yellow and cited the hearts vs hibs game. I thought law was pretty clear, red card handball dogso, any thoughts why this is yellow and not red? watch from about 1.30 thanks

I think the semi-automated offside system and process is working really well in the world cup. There, I’ve said it 😬

Hi All Anyone else here who is a SERYFA referee? I find getting our fixtures a little tedious having to crawl through the website all the time, so have built a little automated website to do it for me, if anyone else is interested I have made it available publicly, updates every day...

Hi All Incident on Sunday, player makes a careless foul (no more) near to opposing team officials. One of the team officials, young lady assistant coach, asked the player to calm down. Player turns round and makes a comment to her about her weight and she should go to weight watchers. I...

Hi All First couple of games as a ref under the belt now, but had a bizarre one at the weekend for an u16 match. Wondering what to do if occurs again. Home team were ready on the pitch for KO in their positions and captain with me at the centre ready for coin toss, but away team stayed talking...