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Had a good one earlier. Friendly between 2 local rivals and I give a DFK to the stripes after the Yellow defender caught his ankle causing the player to stumble and lose possession. The defender turns around and tells me that the LOTG states "A player has to go down in order to get a free...

Haha. They were **** tbh. There are a couple of professional referees here in Bobby Madley and Adie Holmes. Therr are a lot of professional club academys here though so the standard is much better than normal

We knew the camera had only just been set up. Mentioning it caused the manager to back down. The assessor agrred with the offside

No we didn't check the footage. The manager turned down the opportunity to look at it

I am currently in Portugal refereeing at the IberCup Estoril. Yesterday morning I was a NAR as part of a 4 man team refereeing a French side against a Portuguese side. The manager of the French team was whinging the whole game about various decisions, notably the offside calls from myself and...

I had one in an U14s game in 2015. Manager for the home team called me on the Tuesday to confirm all the match details etc. He then mentioned that they wanted to do a minute's silence before the match as it was the 2 year anniversary of their goalkeepers early death after collapsing outside...

Not strictly true. There is a video clip on YouTube in America who gave a free kick on the edge of the area and went to the VAR to help determine wether it was DOGSO or not. After checking the footage, the ref produced a straight red card

He said in his original post Fabio et al done what they did because of a dive. This implies it was ok because of mitigating circumstances

So if a player cheats, the other team has free range to berate the ref? Ok, not what I expect a referee to say

So two wrongs make a right then?

I think it was introduced as a yellow card in the higher levels due to some players displaying political and/or controversial messages on undershirts

To be fair to Robbie. There are some penalty incidents that I see in real time and think that they are a nailed-on pen, but after looking at replays, it looks less bad than it did in real time. And vice versa of course

Tbh it was petty. I always get petty with stress. I apologise for that. I was refering to the original post when he said that he definitely would have given it if it was outside the area, but not inside as 'the ball was too far from it'. That is the cause of the problem

Football has LAWS, not rules.......another player connotation Assessors want you to stick to the letter of the law. If you don't give a blatant foul because it would be easier not to, you will get marked down. You mentioned you weren't from England. May I ask, where do you referee? America...

In what way did I infer you were a moron? All I said was most players are when they spout these supposed rules. You asked the question, you should expect honest feedback. I have given you my honest opinion to which you scold me for

You clearly haven't listened. You still say that the ball being further away makes it less of a foul and subsequent penalty. THE POSITION OF THE BALL DOESN'T MATTER!!!!! Only time it does for me is if it is out of play or an offside offence has occurred. Players are usually morons when it...

For what it's worth. I am also a young referee. I have no issue with different interpretations of certain laws (careless/reckless etc). My issue is that you deliberately avoid to apply the laws because you believe the ball being away from the incident makes it unpunishable with a penalty kick...

He said that he would give a FK outside the box but wouldn't give a penalty for the same thing as he fwlt it would be too harsh a punsihment. As a referee this should NEVER come into it. If the player commits a foul inside tge penalty box, a penalty should be awarded. It isn't our fault if the...

You said it yourself. You would have given it if it were outside the box. Therefore, you should have given the penalty. You are last week's ref! Next week something similar could happen and the referee may actually have the bollox to give the penalty. Well done on making that referee's job...

In my league, you cannot film without the permission of the referee and bith managers. It is a child protection issue