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AED's are specifically designed so that you don't need training. Simply open it up and follow the loud voice instructions. Having said that, it does seem that a lot of people don't realise that you don't need training - perhaps everyone should be trained that they don't need to be trained!

All AR's have a full half of the pitch to patrol, whereas some referees only have 262.68 square meters that they worry about... ;)

Something nobody else has mentioned, so I'll throw it in here... @Men in Black how is your fitness? Depending on the game, you can burn a lot more calories on the line than in the middle. In the middle, you can control your position, you can "pace" yourself so to speak. On the line, you have no...

An online test that you have to pass for recertification makes huge sense. It's not about catching out the "bad eggs", it would also be a great way of ensuring that referees are up to date with law changes that come through each year. It could be a two step process - up to an hour's CBT on law...

I thought at first you were referring to the original meaning of drone - a referee going on, and on, and on, and on... :D

1. Tell the penalty taker to get a grip. Next thing you know they'll complain that a spectator was rude to them, shouting something like "who ate all the pies", it's really unfair, all they want to do is score their first ever goal, and people are being so horrible. #Snowflake. IDFK and YC for...

It's like anything - if there is plenty going on to keep you from looking at your watch, time flies by. You keep checking it, and time s l o w s d o w n. EDIT: Even worse, if you find your mind wandering off to things nothing to do with the game at all - what's on TV tonight...

I agree, and define "play". If a caution was mandatory during KTFPM for a second play/touch on the ball, you could potentially see someone receive a second yellow card and be dismissed for something as trivial as a trip or a slip, causing them to "play" the ball a second time. It someone is...

More worrying is that you're on holiday and settling down for a good read... with the good book! Perhaps, a la Gideons, we ought to petition IFAB to place a copy in a bedside drawer in every hotel room!

Good point. That's when they roll out the new kit for all to see in the UK. As if anybody notices other than fellow referees!

And I see they are selling colour coordinated stockings (OK, socks) as well. Does anyone know, for those CFA's that have authorised an alternative colour shirt, whether we should have matching legwear as well?

http://www.3qsports.co.uk/Nike-Referee-Kits/Nike-Referee-Jersey-Short-Sleeve is showing as available from July... But that's in the UK.

If we were to convict cheats, Dele Alli would have to be on day release for good behaviour if he was to ever play again.

The middle letter of VAR is important. Like a NAR, they are there to assist, not insist. Not having seen the game (tried watching, very boring, no atmosphere), I would assume that when this happened the VAR quickly reviewed, and then got on the comms to the ref asking whether he had seen the...

Yes, yes and thrice yes!

Not to the parents it isn't!! (Of the U15's, that is :) )

The heart doctor wouldn't be cleaning the operating theatre, whereas Hilda would be. I was asked by the paediatrician to hold forceps and keep the swabs in place after my wife had given birth, whilst he [... no need for full detail here ...]. In your analogy I should probably have refused to do...

At youth (in particular), do everything you can to get the game on. Play and then report. Only thing really stopping me at OA and vets would be lack of shirt numbers (so no turning shirts inside out, bibs obscuring shirt numbers etc). Odd coloured shorts, mismatched / clashing socks... "guys...

Hurrah for UEFA!

The Ref's view was blocked, and was reliant upon NAR and AAR. In real-time, tough to call, so yes - perhaps no clear error. BUT, that's under the guidance/implementation of VAR today. If instead we had an implementation that allowed each team one or two challenges in a match, this scenario would...