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If the CAR is a named sub - red card. You can only hope. If not caution the striker for dissent, try to calm him down. Ask away team to replace CAR.

Regardless of whether or not you think it's handball as this is a complete no win situation, unless the pen is awarded and then missed. Which decision will cause you the greatest harm in match control. Award nothing, shout accidental, no intent. The attacking team will moan for a minute or two...

two halves surely.

No pants??;)

Really shouldn't be an issue at this point of the season. You may find some small pools but probably not enough to walk away. If in doubt follow the advise above.

fool. There's still time to save yourself

I'm not up, or is it down, wiv da yoof.

It has nothing to do with an AR seeing it. Take this scenario. You've just awarded a free kick just outside the box, spoken to the defender then told the keeper you're going on the whistle and hold up something yellow or red. No one apart from those in proximity will have heard you. When you...

Fair enough.

Avoid yellow and red and colours that may look that way from a distance, lime green for instance. Reasoning is that when you tell the keeper you're going "on the whistle" holding your whistle up it can look like a card from a distance. Can cause a problem with the dugouts for an AR at the dead end.

Pardon

Once you start going through the promotion process it'll be suggested that you use black whistles.

My blast got a bit of a work out yesterday. 24 fouls in the game 12of them in the last 10 minutes along with 4 cautions.

Another case of FA inconsistency?

Our RDO appoints to the 3 main youth leagues around here. One on Sat AM, U8- U18, generally gets U12 up covered. The other Sat AM is up to U12, quite often the managers will need to find a ref. Sunday PM is U13 up and they pretty much get covered OK. The system started last season and seems to...

I use the blast for reds too. I've seen players duck before. It certainly lets them know there's a problem.

And like buses another one comes along. Nailed on DOGSO today.

indeed

Awful news.

First red today. Second yellow, first for kicking the ball away second for a kick out. Oh well...