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We have the benefit of endless repeats. If as a referee I were to judge this situation in an instant, I'd look for defenders around and possibly still awaiting the attacker. If they two remaining defenders each take one step towards the site of the incident, the gap becomes much narrower. Not...

I hope you're taking the mickey, Beezer. But I'll take the bait: it was not 8 yards out, more like 12 to 15. Also, two other defenders were closing in on the situation. So while I do believe now that it was a reckless challenge, a penalty and a YC, waving a red for DOGSO would go a tad too far.

Exactly! Too many people confuse outcome and cause, saying that if the injury is horrible, the challenge must surely have been horrible too. There is no correlation. By which I do not mean to excuse this particular foul. After my last post I saw better footage and I'm now convinced it most...

As for the first situation: I guess you didn't do the right thing, because no one complained ;-) As for the second situation: I cannot look inside the ref's head but it sure looks like he was persuaded by the mentor's apparent experience or seniority to disallow the goal. Interesting advantage...

Only seen it in short clips, not live. Tackle looks clean enough, except maybe for the trailing left leg. Hard to see what it does to Shaw's leg. Terribly unfortunate for Shaw to break his leg. Many players, commentators, managers and partisan fans see a cause-effect relationship: the injury is...

Yes, and here in Holland I heard match reporters say it should have been allowed. Do these people even stay up to date with the latest law changes and interpretations?

Tell that to the politicians. Hmm.. Now there's an idea! Let politicians take a ref course and ref a few games. Let's see how long they'll persist in their B/W answers... ;-)

There's no way that in my case I would have sent off the fouling player. It was an OGSO, but he didn't deny it. After a "long" two or three seconds, the attacker got a free chance to shoot at goal (from a spot closer than the penalty mark) and missed. I'm still convinced I took the right...

Thanks for your elaboration. Like yourself, I'm not knocking your strategy for handling advantage in the penalty area. In fact, it looks very reasonable and not unlike my own. As reminded a few times in this thread, every situation is different and as a ref you subconsciously take a million...

I don't think I penalised the striker. He had a good chance at goal, I allowed him to finish that chance, which he - in full control of his skills - then proceeded to miss. If in another area of the pitch you play advantage, the player after a few seconds looking around, gives a pass that is way...

Whether or not a player plays in a dangerous manner is in the opinion of the referee. If Michael Oliver saw no foul in it, we can of course second-guess him, but that makes it our opinion, not his. And his is the one that counts on the field of play. Hope that makes sense...

If you can't eat a cherry in one bite, you don't deserve the cherry ;-)

I had this very same situation this Saturday in an U17 match. Striker is fouled, tumbles but rights himself immediately (before I had a chance to blow for a penalty kick so I signal advantage), manages to get his balance and then shoots way wide with only the keeper before him. Nobody complained...

Having first reffed back-to-back U18 matches...

The Twitter handle is his!! He replied to my query last night. Well, actually at 3 a.m. but I'm not going to let that spoil the fun and excitement I'm feeling :-) Will keep you abreast of developments.

That may be worth a try, yes. Thanks a bunch!

Hi David, Thanks for your reply. I've read the article and already tried the email address mentioned, but the mail proved undeliverable. I guess the address was outdated. The Twitter account looks more promising. Some of the tweets relate to the area Lewis originates from, so I've sent him a...

Hi, being a collector of books about referees and refereeing, I'm constantly looking to expand my collection. For some time now I've been looking for this self-published book by former Welsh FIFA referee Gerrard Lewis titled "Between the Lines". It was published in 2007. I've been unable to...

Hi, hope you're in for a longer read, as Jan Vorstenbosch, a Dutch philosopher who happens to be crazy about football, extends his views on the introduction of goal-line technology in football. The original article is from 2013, which is why, at my request, he recently added a postscriptum. Jan...

Hallo Jan, good to see you here as well! I recently signed up too. Haven't been overly active yet, but working on it :)