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I do agree that making a mistake is the very best way to learn. Back in 1979 I was a club linesman (no Ar's then) and our team took a goal kick. The opposition headed the ball back towards our goal, finding a player totally free 20 yards out from goal. I immediately raised my flag for offside...

Actually Law 6 merely states that this duty applies to Penalty kicks...not KFTPM. I checked over the instructions given here in Australia and we have been told categorically that the AR's ONLY duty at KFTPM is goal/no goal. Keeper encroachment (at least over here) must be left solely to the CR.

That never occurred to me. But in 9 years over here never had anything stolen yet.

Here in Australia it is always pay in advance...no money, game forfeited. It's such a simple and obvious idea that I am amazed it is not universal practice.

Very simple: Encroachment comes first, but I wait a second to see if any advantage develops. A DFK for handball is a better advantage than IFK so I blow for the handball. I then give a YC for the encroachment (perfectly fair to caution for misconduct after playing advantage).

Actually I fully agree with everyone here. Standing on the pitch, having had a while to think while the lady got treated for her injury, I also wished I had yellow carded her opponent. My real question is: having waited a while (during which I was being told I should have shown a card)...

Had a game this week that left me puzzling. Ladies' game, reasonably high standard. Not a lot of bad fouls but players niggling about elbowing which I did not see. In second half yellow team player is downed when red player steps into her path deliberately. I immediately whistled for a foul...

I would just like to say that I think people (and CARs are people, whatever many of you might think!) raise themselves to the level of what is expected of them. If the prevailing mentality is that CARs are useless and a waste of time, they probably will be. Here in Western Australia it is...

I would just like to say that I feel people are far too quick to blame IFAB for "ill thought out" Laws. Now I admit that occasionally they come up with a real clanger (Golden Goal?), but then you can't make Laws for 150+ years without that happening sometimes. In general they do a very good job...

I also think corners are a danger. The ball swings in and you see a penalty box full of players, and suddenly you can forget who is attacking and who defending. In one early game I saw red clearly foul blue. I blew the whistle, pointed to a spot ten yards from goal, and said confidently "Free...

This may sound ridiculous but I use silly childish word associations to help remember which team kicks which way. For example if there is a club house behind the white team's goal, I think "defending the White House". If there is a road at one end, and a team in yellow attacking that goal, I...

Not to be a grammar Nazi but in the context you used it, the correct word is incontravertibly "its".

Although not specifically mentioned in the Laws any more, this is considered to be Unsporting Behaviour. Back in 1993 Law 12 had as an International board decision note 4: "If a player leans on the shoulders of another player of his own team in order to head the ball, the referee shall stop...

While I fully agree with your approach here (I would also use how far the ball is coming from as an important criterion), just wanted to point out that if you deem the offence to be the deliberate moving of hand to ball, then all the stuff about about natural postion etc does NOT apply. Moving...

Just checked up, and it was in 1997.

I think it was in the great rewrite of 97...

I fully agree with Peter Grove and others that this is a form of circumvention. It's also fairly clear that it is a rehearsed move. My only disagreement is with Peter's choice of booking the GK. The actual part of Law 12 says it is a cautionable offence if a player : "uses a deliberate...

This does all seem to be a huge fuss over nothing. For about 140 years we have happily given a throw-in (and a change of possession) to the team that didn't touch the ball last. No complaints about the unfairness of this. The idea of Law 15 is that the team that puts the ball over the touch...

Just had an email from my ref co-ordinator passing on feedback they were emailed after last week's game. Basically the player complimented me on my foul calling and general positioning and wanted it to reach official ears. I did feel very good about how that game went, but after so much...

This is absolutely correct, a caution is not mandatory. If it causes the keeper a problem, just give the IFK.