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Maybe because of this (warning - contains the word in question).

Sondico Flair - 100% Black - currently on sale at £14.50 at Sports Direct. I have a pair that I bought at the start of the season for £25.00 and they are comfortable.

Law 12

I'm "other" - home team has to provide flags on the leagues that I do (although I do have a mid-range set for NARs or hiring out to teams that have forgotten to bring their own).

Or even both: "Any player who lunges at an opponent in challenging for the ball from the front, from the side or from behind using one or both legs, with excessive force and endangering the safety of an opponent is guilty of serious foul play." Although I'm not sure what force is considered...

Good spot by the ref (or more likely one of the rest of the team). I don't see how raking your studs down an opponents shin can be anything other than excessive force. In real time I thought the player had made a meal of it having just been clipped but the slo-mo showed otherwise.

So if a team defending a free kick lined up along the goal line with their hands in the air and their backs to the ball you wouldn't penalise if the ball struck a hand and stayed out?

Why is this so difficult to believe? In your four games this season, according to the stats in your signature, you haven't been abused at all.

If you throw a ball away from you with lots of backspin, it will roll towards you. Keepers do it all the time but usually with just enough spin to stop the ball rolling away.

Never heard of backspin?;)

If we didn't play in the mud here on the clay of the Sussex Weald we would not play a game after August.

Blues vs Reds. Two blues and one red running for the same ball. Both blues are ahead of the red but he is faster than either of them so one of the blues has a good look over at the red and the steps into his path and more or less stops, preventing him from reaching the ball which was still about...

This one?

Ran the line on a compacted 3G yesterday - today knees are in bits. And just an extra note on Oiref's point - I often find 3Gs are quite narrow even if they are a fairly standard length. The pitch yesterday was only about 60 yards wide (so 8 yards from corner to edge of penalty box).

I'm largely with Padfoot on this one. I think that we as referees are the only people that have authority over everyone involved in the game and thus have a responsibility matching that privilege. No-one else can hope to stop all players, coaches etc swearing on pitches beside residential...

Did he take the corner before entering the FOP and so didn't enter at the halfway line?

"Not yet" :D