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Shame the VAR can't rewind the actual play in the same way he would rewind and replay the footage. Everybody back to where they were 30 seconds previously and restart. A bit like having to retake a shot in snooker for a miss. Oh, I'm not being serious.

If you're not looking for recompense for it, send it to The Telegraph, The Guardian etc. Newspapers are always looking for content, and if they don't have to pay for it as well... (oh, and don't forget your own local newspaper).

Sussex has come out But - no guidance on the colour of those shirts, so its entirely possible that different leagues under the auspices of the CFA could opt for different alternative colours :(

Surely we've all had enough now. It's the end. Fin.

To quote from the comments on the article: "there's bound to be a few subs and many dives"!

When a player is down injured, its fine to spot check the severity, but then move away in to a neutral area. It's too easy to get caught up in verbals from the injured players team mates / coaches if you hover directly by the player, and you also want to be able to observe the other players to...

And what is with the ref having the CARs running right-backs, rather than left-backs... Feels so unnatural on the odd occasion been asked to do this.

Roger, you are a new member who has only posted this question. Can I ask if you are a qualified referee, or are you a coach/parent asked to step in and referee the game? If the latter, and you have never really refereed at all, it can be difficult to divorce yourself from the game and become...

Why? It sounds like you were favouring the red team, perhaps thinking that they could sneak a goal and level the scoreline again. As referees, we not only have to be neutral, we have to be seen to be neutral as well. If there is flagrant bias (even if unintentional) you're risking a player...

You're correct. I misinterpreted the document. The old (current) LotG reads: The new law is printed as: There is no intention as to the purpose of the law in the actual laws of the game, only the law itself. What I'm saying is that, having reworded the law where the intent is that the player...

Thank-you @Peter Grove The point I was making is that IFAB, as essentially a law making organisation (but for a sport, rather than for a country), needs to get on top of how it words things, whether that be in the LotG themselves, or in replies to enquiries. Laws should not be open to...

In double-checking something for the kick to the GK discussion, I went to IFAB and was having a look at their documents. I opened up a document detailing the revisions to the laws for 2017/2018 (here), and got confused with Law 8 - Start and Restart of Play. Old text: The kicker can stand in...

Perfect. We'll take the words of Boudien as gospel. Much better to accept without challenge the words of a comms and admin manager, rather than, say, someone like David Elleray. We have no idea whether this is just her opinion, or whether she has validated the response with someone such as the...

They wouldn't though. If they won, they would rely on their (what is currently shadow) cabinets. The likes of Diane Abbot - oh, wait.

Having the ability to vote is not something that should be disregarded lightly. I would stand for a policy that: Made voting a legal requirement for those that met the legibility criteria, that carried a financial penalty for those people that did not vote Change the way postal voting works, to...

The same this way as well. The real shame is for those referees who choose not to do it, because in all likelihood for many on local leagues it will be the only opportunity they get to go out as a team of three or four, and have NAR's run their line for them. The sense of occasion makes it a...

I respectfully disagree with your disagreement :) - you're saying that this wouldn't be an offence: a player stood just inside his own half turns, shouts to his keeper "keeper, coming back to you" and kicks the ball to his keeper. He hasn't seen an opposition player in an offside position (but...

How about "plenty of time for your team to equalise if they put their minds to it"? Seriously, if anybody asks me how much longer is left, whether I'm on the line or in the middle, I always round up - so if 13 minutes left on my watch I would reply with "about 15". When you're on the line, you...