Recent content by The Gump

Many thanks Ross.

Bugger - will try and delete!

Sent you PM as unsure of the rules of posting email addresses on here.

If it's for Wilts Schools FA I can give you the contact's email as I did one for them the other week.

It's why I find this site so valuable for those of us that are largely on our own at weekends. Had a CAR last week that I was chatting to at half time - he was roughly same age as me and bemoaning parents behaviour, having to learn on your own without much if any guidance or feedback so I am...

It's human nature that we complain more than we praise, so I just wanted to drop a quick note on this thread to say a thank to you ARs. Middling as a 50yo, second-season L7, mostly at youth level, I've only had ARs twice. First time was in a CC Semi-Final (they were desperate for a ref) where...

I regularly ref youth games throughout the winter on 3G pitches where the only pitch marked out is 11v11 so cones are in use. I always make sure to use lines that are there as much as possible, so goals go on the 6 yard line and pace the area cones out myself, even if the that means exact pitch...

As others have pointed out, not only is it clear OFFINABUS and straight RC, but given it's discriminatory I would briefly stop the game to take the contemporaneous notes the FA's reporting discrimination guidance requires.

This is interesting Rusty, because by putting that in writing to the league it's defamation, especially the first comment. If I was the referee I'd want to know and would immediately be talking to a solicitor...One thing to give low marks for mistakes, perceived or real, another thing to accuse...

Good idea that - I'm going to try it.

Midlands JPL, so it will be a good standard for non-academy youth football. Whilst I agree with you to a large degree, it's a sad indictment of football that an U12s game can't be refereed by a young ref at the start of their journey, with the learning curve and issues around confidence that...

That was my conclusion too, with complete sympathy for the lad as the reasons stated it was also one of his first games - "recently qualified" would suggest to me he's either completed the course during October half-term or just started at the beginning of the season. Buck stops with whoever...

If this was a case presented by a local FA I would agree. If by the main FA, they’re staffed with qualified barristers and solicitors. Granted it doesn’t mean they’re any good (most governing body in house legal aren’t that good - if they were they’d be in practice not taking the easier life in...

Removing someone in response to an intervention from a club would have opened the floodgates but I agree it's something the PGMOL should consider ACTIVELY doing. Problem is most sports regulators have a "we'd never be biased" mentality, which when combined with a siege mentality (which almost...

Spot on. Clattenburg knew exactly what he was doing in making that request/comment to PGMOL beforehand - any controversial decision was going to be used afterwards. However it will badly backfire because a) Forest are in for a big fine (or should be) and b) whilst the perception of bias...