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Managing the players and the game and behaving in a way that helps your match control is really important. A referee that manufactures may be seen as over the top and domineering. A referee that assists players in coming to the right decision will seem reasonable and yet still assertive. if you...

Best to be informal. If working with club assistants I brief them in front of the captains so the captains know what I have asked them to do. I ask them to signal ball in and out of play i.e. throw ins, corners and goal kicks and to indicate the direction if they are sure which way it is. I also...

OMG (always wanted to type that) - talk about complicating a very simple law Offside simply has two boxes to tick which get ticked at the time the ball is played. Box 1 - Is the player (who is the subject of our question) in an offisde position at the time the ball is played to him by a team...

Thanks for posting the link Brian. I see now why it's not worth printing. Perhaps we're getting to the stage where we are pretty happy with it all. Changes I would like to see: 1. Law 16 - The Goal Kick under Procedure The ball must be stationary as per Law 13 free kicks 2. I would like 'moves'...

on the second scenario you missed the bit about the Space Shuttle Challenger landing in the centre circle . . . . . . .

Just been tutoring on a referee course this weekend and stressing how important it is to know from every type of restart when the ball is 'in play' e.g. from a corner kick it is 'when it is kicked and moves' from a dropped ball it is when the ball touches the ground. From a goal kick it is when...

There are a few more Climbing The shirt pull Diving - I love that - we call it the Gerbil The elbow The Eric Bristow - i.e. the issuing of a card with an extended little finger The hug from behind The helicopter - at the start to signal change of ends I agree with the extra red card signal...