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Stop worrying about your card count mate! 43 cautions in 14 games equals about 3 cautions per game. Not a lot at all if you are doing competitive senior league games. Stop worrying about your card count, for all I know they might all be correct and perhaps your obsession with showing fewer cards...

I do indeed think that we need a nationwide stricter enforcement of dissent if we want to achieve consistency and reduce the level of dissenting behaviour. When watching the PL you rarely see more than 1-2 cautions for dissent each matchday, even though I don't see less dissent in the PL than La...

As mentioned in some posts above dissent has become a part of the game just like anything else. I have experimented with clamping down on dissent in some games the past, but for the most part this has just created trouble for my control of the game, with players getting more frustrated and...

Thanks for your words guys. I am a 1st year level 5 referee and I've always been thinking that once I get my 4 and less to to with my county everything will be better, but right now I keep worrying about getting "stuck" at level 5 and anything I say or do can be held against me as obviously the...

I know it sounds really crazy, but this is for real. Why would I make it up?

Hi folks I'm quite heartbroken at the moment because of several things. Refereeing is my clear no 1 passion in my life and I've devoted hours of every day for the last couple years to reach my goal of reaching the top one day. Unfortunately there are some things that just havent worked out :(...

This has to be the most referee-nerdy thread of the year, or perhaps all time, but how many whistles do you carry with you in the field, and how do you carry them? The classic and archetypal English "whistle on a lanyard", like Clatts? ... a finger ring, like Mike Dean? (my personal...

The sleeper - He may turn up late or even just before kick-off, and almost no matter how difficult the game has been his de-brief will be short and not include the situations you would find it natural to talk about. He often cares little if anything about the ARs. The report is usually short and...

Do you recognise any of these types, or do you have other ones that come to mind? The casual - Casually dressed, easy-going, bantering with you and your team-mates, maybe gives some quick advice before the game or at half time. Whatever you do, he will support your decisions, and if he has...

The referee is very poorly positioned. Hope the AR asked the referee to overturn it, but I suspect that he could have been the one who takes the decision?

A friend sent me this clip, don't know what league or level this is but the decision is obviously incorrect. What I wonder is whether this should be a dive or just play on? It appears that the player clips his own heel.

I've had maybe 20 AR assessments in the past - in not one of them have I been told that I'm wrongly positioned.

This was on the final day of last season. Almost cost me my 6/5 promotion, after complaining (I have an average of 80 on other assessments and I did not have an impression that my positioning and movement was any worse than in other assessed games) the report was thankfully overlooked...

An assessor who gave me a bad report, saying I essentially did everything wrong, he was patronising during the debrief, did not allow me to speak and explain my views (when I tried, he criticised me for this and said I tried to make up excuses)

Have anyone of you had any trouble with assessors being patronising, rude, saying things that you absolutely disagree with or goes against what you have learnt, etc?