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We could do with an official FA version of the attached... And get every club to post it.

U15's is where I find it most interesting. Hormones are on fire. And you then have many parents and coaches that suffer from what I term "Footballing Bipolar Disorder" - really nice individuals that turn in to near-psychopaths when doing anything involving a round ball.

I've corrected this for you ;)

Whatever being that took over @Ciley Myrus a few months ago is now talking nonsense. I'll tell the ref on my local club's match next weekend that he'll have to lend beeper flags and comm sets to the two CARs - I'm sure that will go down well. And a visual signal that an AR can make with their...

This was on the whistle though... @Kent Ref - this is a bit like at a substitution: the substitution is complete once the substitute has entered the FOP. In reality, you wait for that substitute to get to roughly where they need to be before you restart the game. For a FK on the whistle, make...

It's always the subtleties...! Thanks for the correction.

But this isn't committing an offence which is punishable by a free kick. This is committing an offence which (if you blow for it) is a mandatory caution, for which the restart happens to be an IDFK... Subtly different I feel.

I saw this live, and at first glance it just didn't feel right - surely the player was either offside, or there's some minor interpretation of law that says the goal should have been disallowed. But then on the replays, you see that he is on side and its just a bad, bad defensive mistake. Good...

I agree with @QuaverRef - always maintain the moral high ground. @IslandReferee if someone is having a pop at you like that, after the game, let it wash over you and reply back when they are finished with something like "thank you for your comments, I'll be sure to note them down" or similar (if...

Self reflect on the match - or share more detail here for feedback. One team may have been intent on kicking merry hell out of the opposition, but how did you handle it? Did you apply the stepped approach with individual players? Did you involve the captain - perhaps warning that the next player...

Out of interest, at this time of year, how do members of the brethren check for rings underneath gloves...?

@zarathustra sums it up well. To add though, in youth football, if a referee is concerned about how they should apply the LotG in this scenario, then they should query it with their refsec. The refsec can then judge what they deem to be fair (such as no keeper-style throws), and communicate...

How about a "snood" (back in the day) (cough, runs for the hills)?

When and where was this accusation made? For me, this is OFFINABUS, so if a player said this to you on the FOP, even after the final whistle, that would have been a red card. A team official or player (off the FOP), I'd be submitting a report.

I have a black beanie (not used in-game), but no - only hats I've ever come across were at the lower end of the youth ages groups, and they tended to be bobble hats - and more often than not in the colours of <insert premier league team name here>, and always worn by a player who really didn't...

Let's not allow this thread to go down what actions a CAR should / shouldn't do route... @iamniallo You will often find at younger age groups the parent running the line will not only point the flag the wrong way, but will also run the entire line, rather than up to the halfway point. That is...

For me, the manager provides the CAR. It's easy enough to politely ask for them - I tend to go down the approach that when I do the kit inspection, I let the manager know I'd like them (the manager), captain and whoever is running their line in the centre circle in n (e.g. 10) minutes time. So a...

I've only come across it at younger age youth football, such as the U13's in the OP. And in my experience, those players that want to wear a hat aren't actually that interested in the football. Nonetheless, I've never had a complaint when asking for it to be removed (and IIRC I've never come...

Surely this is binary, and as such you shouldn't be warning a player or players not to be doing something again. A bit like OFFINABUS: if a player has screamed language you don't like, you shouldn't be warning them to moderate their language. What the OP describes either is an offence, in which...

The referee only has to make allowance for time lost. There is nothing in the good book that states that the referee MUST add time on at the end of each half. It always feels as if its an arbitrary number anyway - we could make bets prior to kick off that a first half will have one minute added...