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A bit infuriating with the commentators, especially from Lucy Ward who is normally quite clued up on the laws. They went from him being sent off, to the yellow just being showed as a warning, to Douglas Luiz having talked the referee into rescinding it, before they eventually presumably had...

This is just fundamentally wrong. The FA are supposed to represent all clubs, but the only clubs this benefits is those in the Premier League, and perhaps the wealthier Championship clubs. Lower league and non-league clubs have avoided going out of business due to money they have received from...

I always tell the candidates, at any level, that they can contact me if they need anything clarifying. If there have been situations with referees confronting observers you deal with those in isolation, not put a blanket ban in place.

I'm fairly quick with them, but they can be dangerous and have landed me in trouble a few times. Classic example was a Southern League game where a yappy striker kept getting caught offside. He wasn't happy, and kept telling me that the assistants were hopeless. Eventually he asked me to take...

Was this 5-4? As @Kes has said, you have limited options to challenge this. If the observer says you flashed cards, and you can't persuade him otherwise in the debrief, you flashed cards. No different to if he said you missed a penalty or a red card, that would be his opinion versus yours and...

So why did he immediately point at the first foul when blowing the whistle? VAR can't have spoken to him by that point.

Xavi kicked out at the protective coverings around the TV camera between the technical areas. I wasn't sure it was a mandatory red card personally, he could have got away with a caution. Don't know what the regulations are in the Champions League, it may be that managers who have been sent off...

I had it in a game earlier this season where every time the home team had anyone go anywhere near them they claimed a foul, moaning at me for not giving it. Not enough for dissent in isolation but in the end I got fed up, called the captain over and said that the next player to do it was having...

Definitely isn't required. If you think back to the old Excel method of reporting, it would be akin to sending a blank spreadsheet to your CFA for a game with no discipline, you just wouldn't do it. I get the argument about keeping a record for personal use, but no one knows how long the FA...

I was struggling with this one a bit as well. The first is clearly a foul, the defender treads on the ball of the attacker's achilles. But he doesn't give it for an age, and only after the second challenge, which definitely wasn't a penalty, was made. I do think he was, perhaps ill-advisedly...

On that one I'd be going back with "he's not an assessor, he's a talent scout and he's just writing down that he hasn't seen any yet"

You need to contact your CFA. No one on here will be able to give you answers on this as they are very specific to you.

That sounds like a database error, if it is still happening in the morning you will need to contact your CFA.

I was sat in the North Stand pretty much level where Bannan is in that image. Unless the couple of pre-match pints consumed were considerably stronger than I thought they were he definitely didn't blow the whistle at that point. Guess it is possible he blew and no one heard it but that...

I'm starting to think that PGMOL have told referees to always restart with the ball dropped to the defensive team when play is stopped due to a defending player being down with a head injury in their own penalty area. There was obviously the high profile Forest vs Liverpool incident, but it...

Said it before, but he will accidentally trip someone up or touch the ball whilst it is still in play sooner rather than later. He'll get a red card and it will be karma. I really don't understand why PGMOL can't instruct the officials to sort this out.

This probably needs a bit of context. I was watching the game and I'm not really sure what you are getting at, I can hazard a guess but that doesn't really make for a great discussion.

True, but a similar reflex action that puts their arms even slightly above their head would be penalised as it would have made them unnaturally bigger. Causes problems when we have sentences in law that almost overlap with each other and create contradictions.

That just isn't handball for me, really not sure what Smith is supposed to do differently there. I think Harrington has seen something that didn't actually happen, so I would argue VAR should have recommended a review. I don't see any debate on the penalty vs free kick though. The contact was...

Of course not. At levels with VAR there is a dedicated person to review decisions, that isn't a player, it is the VAR team. At levels without VAR referees are not allowed to use any kind of technology, doesn't matter if someone has filmed it showing you've dropped a clanger, you can't change...