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For those that might be concerned over the carding at youth due to the financial cost to the player, remember that CFA fines for youth must be paid by the club and are not allowed to be passed on to the player. Also, certainly with my CFA, the cost of a yellow card to the club has been reduced...

Even though some teams do this - e.g. "Ref, we like to play an incredibly short corner occasionally, just so you know and you don't think the ball hasn't been played". Also, if you and a bunch of other people have to lift something very heavy, and you all agree "On three!" - do you clarify "Lift...

Even then, it doesn't necessarily mean the answer is correct ;)

How about this as an option? Play on, no retake, and the next time the ball goes out of play or you stop play for another reason, then you caution the kicker for USB. If there's nothing in law that says it is a retake, but we are arguing it could be USB, why not treat it like other cautions...

I assume your "linos" were supplied by the teams - so they were Club Assistant Referees, or CARs. When overriding a CAR on a throw-in, consider whether they are favouring their own team or not. If they are giving the throw against their own team, the likelihood is they have seen something you...

Firstly congratulations. Secondly, I find it interesting, because in England you wouldn't be allowed to referee the game. The rule over here is that if you are under 16, you can only referee up to the age group below you (I think - certainly you are not allowed to referee age-groups older than...

Out of interest, if the ref missed AR1's offside flag, do you not mirror the flag in the hope he will see yours instead?

@RustyRef I'm sure FIFA will have heard of pool.ntp.org or similar. Won't they. Surely. Yes? Maybe, maybe no... Back on topic, a player strikes the ball just before you blow the whistle for full time. The ball, despite the keeper attempting to save it, ends up in the back of the net. Goal or no...

Well done and welcome to the community. Remember on Saturday that not only will this be your first game in the middle, for U11's first game of the season it will likely be a lot of the players first full match with a "proper" referee, and with offside being played as well. Make sure you arrive...

Referee wearing a wedding ring - disgraceful. Only FIFA referees should be allowed to get away with that! This is a scan of my print version - interestingly PDF versions online appear to have the wedding ring airbrushed out!

You say it was the oppositions's manager. The correct course of action would have been to report him to the home team's manager, who should then have spoken with his counterpart. One trick to dealing with parents / spectators / coaches / managers at youth football is to remember that often, the...

What if you want to travel separately because you want to go an see an Ed Sheeran concert after the match. Would you have to get FA Permission for that????...

I agree with @es1 - particularly with professional players, whose very careers survive off the back of them avoiding injury, and especially serious injury. If those players are satisfied with the level of protection they have, that's up to them. Youth and below, I'd be having a word, any maybe...

It's a good job we don't referee for the positive feedback from players, managers and spectators... No doubt having walked that player the teams were complaining about how the referee had ruined the game, makes the "friendly" useless as a pre-season warm up blah blah blah. Nobody thinks to blame...

Anybody else had the clip at the end of a touchline flag magically disappear, and the flag come off the stick at the most inopportune time? Surely not just me that's happened to :)

Those close to the offending player did, and a handful of spectators. But as they were claiming for it the whistle went and a split second later the "goal" was scored. A few grumbles, but when they realised there was a red card and penalty they quickly calmed down. The team that lost a player...

As long as the whistle isn't blown before the goal is "scored". The opposite of which is what happened at a game I watched Saturday afternoon. A busy box, and a DOGSO-H just off the goal line. The referee (that I thought had an excellent game throughout) immediately blew, followed a split second...

The CFA's are having laugh if they try and peddle an argument that cards incur admin costs. They don't any more, certainly in terms of the CFA personnel. We, the referees, add the booking in the whole game. The club secretary gets an automatic notification that there is a caution against a...

As said above, your ears are as important to use as your eyes. Remember to hold the flag whilst crabbing in your left hand (most of the time) - the flag should be between you and the ref (so if you are turning to run up the field, swap the flag to your right hand, and as you turn to face the...

We have the joy of auto-update. Where you get a warning that your PC will reboot in 15 minutes. No exception. No opportunity to delay it. No opportunity to say, can you do it overnight when I'm not using it. And the auto-update code must have something in it to detect when you are in the middle...