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@MDempster - I will start with Well Done, You sound like you dealt with what was in front of you and abandoned at exactly the right time. The only suggestions would be "could you have sin-binned one of the players after the blue players dismissal?". Did the keeper come or ???., as that would...

The correct long answer is Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo 🤯

I know there is discussion thread on here, but it would be interesting to take a simple poll as to whether the EPL will abolish VAR and should they abolish VAR Votes please - they will make no difference the actual outcome.....

Hi, As I suspect that the league was at Step 7 or below, you may well be out of time to complain to the league. The Standard code of rules requires the compliant to be made within 7 days of the match (with all supporting data). But as others have said, the referee is the sole judge of time...

NO, you don't.... Go to Grimsby in the winter and 🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶

They don’t think about the future, they think what is trendy and the stars are wearing. They think the club will look after them if they are injured

No, we won't close. 3 months is about the time limit for threads

The answer to any player who complains is "if he taken the man, he would have got a Red Card. So, just accept the free-kick for the tackle, as his tackles needs to be eliminated from the game".

@Matthew Looking back on my life, I only have one real regret which was quitting refereeing in the mid-90's. Wasn't enjoying, but then became involved in a club and lost the enthusiasm for local football. Now, I wished I had taken a few months off and then gone again. Think about it over the...

Well done, it has been abandon due to the fault of the Home team have failing floodlights, so you are entitled to your full fee. Depending on the league, they could be fined for an abandoned match and forced to replay. Or the match result may be awarded, if the match has not effect on...

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As I have said on here, I have refereed a player called "Michael Mouse" - it was his real name. He always told the referee before the game, so there was no issues

@Lucarelli99 - One thing I found help when the game was getting away was to "Strangle the game"... By that I blew for everything, no advantage; blade of grass accurate for free-kicks; and generally made it an unpleasant game of football to play in. If the teams moaned at me, i simply said "when...

This is one area of refereeing where the safeguarding has "run ahead" of the referee development. Yes, it is vital that the CWO looks out for their players (which at a few ckubs doesn't happen); but we as referees need to be mindful of this. I think your response should have been to ask her...

Since when have IFAB and UEFA understood the "actual rules of football" rather than writing the LOTG? Examples of their stupidity - - colour of undershorts at grassroots level - should be kit colour or black (like in Rugby League) - caution at grassroots level for removing short - why...

What TV wants TV gets.... For Halifax, this would have been good money

The above is from Law 12 - it makes no mention as to whether there is a likelihood of a goal being scored to decide whether it is a DOGSO or not. You have to decide whether it is obvious that the goalkeeper will save the ball (and hold it, because a rebound would be a GSO), to judge whether it...

Did you make any sort of disciplinary report about this to the CFA? As others have said, this should have been a clear RC for OFFINBUS. The CFA should just ignore his complaint (you won't here anything), but the RDO may come back to you and enquire "why haven't you reported this?"

The normal practice at grassroots is that you will be award a memento in place of your match fee. Yes, under the normal cup rules to claim your expenses, not not a match fee.

Did one training session in the 1990's (yes, I am that old :old: ) where nothing happened for 60ish minutes then a mass con from nowhere, but on the other side of the field from the trainee observers. Every pen and notebook going like mad, then every checking that they had all seen the same...