Mentor support is of course always subject to availability but is NOT an FA requirement.
All counties are short of volunteer mentors, so if any referees in England reading this can spare two hours a month to mentor, please advise your RDO.
Many thanks.
If it happens again, ask the referee to come over and they can initiate the FA protocol procedure laid down for these thankfully rare cases.
Well done re not reacting at the time.
Reminds me of a game after I retired from regular appointments but helped out by running the line at local clubs when our Supply League were short.
I was approached (from around 50 metres away) by the away team captain, who called me a "f*****g cheat" because I had signalled for a free kick to...
In one of my first games (many years ago) a defender committed a foul in the arc. He left the ball, started to wander back. The striker placed the ball, said "OK?" to me and I said "yes". Scored. Uproar - "you didn't let us get a wall ready". Only goal of the game.
I've seen this offence penalised correctly twice in the last year (both matches had a Level 3 referee)
On both occasions their reasoning was that a head lowered below the opponent's waist whilst running towards the opponent was dangerous.
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