Recent content by AmitM

Hi All, I have recently completed the residential part of the FA Leadership Academy (FALA) 23, which begins the journey of a 1 year project to improve the football community, with my project aiming to increase young referee retention. I am beginning my FALA project with a research study into...

I had something similar today actually. Cautioned a player and the name he gave me didn't match his number on the teamsheet. In the end it didn't matter because I put it through on WGS as the name he gave me, and put that the club had an inaccurate teamsheet on my match report. So always ask a...

After a U16 game last season: Manager: "Ref that was 100% a penalty. You know I'm a ref too right?" Me: "Oh yeah, what level?" Manager: "What level are you?" Me: "7" Manager: "Well I'm a level 8, so I outrank you and am going to report you to the league for being a sh*t ref" Me: "You don't look...

I got my L6 yesterday, and was wondering if I start a 6-5, will games from this season carry over to a different CFA next season? I'm in Manchester for uni from September, so there's no point in me starting a 6-5 now if the games won't carry over to Manchester FA

I haven't seen a replay yet so I may be wrong though!

But he hadn't played the ball or challenged for it?

I might be missing something, but I thought if the offside player hasn't interfered with play, then the foul stands?

Thank you!! Would that be a caution as well? If yes then what for?

Fair enough. I think it's just one of those I pray I never have to deal with 🤣

Completely agree that it should be a caution but why would it be dangerous?

In my game today, had a player ask me, as a joke, if he managed to catch the ball in-between his shirt and body without using his hands, would it be a foul. I just laughed with him and walked away, and luckily he didn't try it in the game!, but what law would it actually be breaking?

Hi All, In my game today a CAR questioned one of my fouls. It was just a question - no dissent - and said "fair enough" as soon as I explained it. I was wondering what you would do if there was dissent. He was an assistant coach, so can you give them a caution? And if you did, would they still...

Yes, but I don't believe he can take payment as he is yet to register with his County FA, so will be a referee from the club rather than a neutral referee.

He basically kept talking and communicating the whole way through the game and just building rapport with them. He also dealt with all the low level dissent in the first 10 minutes and picked up on every time any of the players had an issue with his decisions at the start. The first time there...

Thanks for the replies! The issue was more the fact that the referee heard all the dissent, and the players were calling him all sorts of names to his face. One even went "oi ref, you're a c*nt" and he didn't do anything about any of it. He just let the temperature rise to a stage where there...