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I'll bet it's the touch on the ball first that has (wrongly) deterred VAR from intervening. It's nice that despite that touch we can see universal condemnation of the challenge and lack of appropriate sanction.

Don't see why VAR recommended a review for this. A red is justifiable in law under VC - brutality for the action here. Possibly something over the comms influenced things, as there has tended to be comms between refs and VARs to confirm what they think they saw.

My understanding is the complete opposite of @george.g ... you can't apply for both pathways at the same time, but men's and women's games are still eligible to count towards either.

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I just don't think a lack of subs is sufficient reason to abandon (on its own i.e. if there is no particular ongoing concern for player safety). Where do you draw the line, e.g. what if they do have a sub available but not a goalkeeper, do you still abandon then? Another voluntary / sporting...

A match can be abandoned for outside interference so it would have been fine to in law. However I think the away team's argument for wanting the match abandoned is not the right one. It is no one else's fault that they had used all their subs (assuming these were not all injury-related). I am...

The goal cannot be disallowed because 1. Play had not been stopped prior to the ball entering the goal, and 2. There was no offence by the attacking team. It is as simple as that. It sounds like there was insufficient time to properly assess the situation before the ball entered the goal, so all...

@JamesL 's point is that 'in all other cases' does not apply because the ball was in the penalty area when play was stopped. Interesting point - let's imagine the ball enters the goal before the referee realises there was outside interference in the build up and blows their whistle. Is the...

Spot on, play has to be stopped and restarted with a dropped ball (Law 5.3). My only comment is the whistle for the restart is not necessary.

My game (in the yellow warning area) also went ahead, though the majority of games in the league were not played. While we had occasional tricky gusts, it helped that the wind direction was across the field rather than along it and the ball had no significant problem with remaining stationary...

Tiny travel distance also makes it easier to have the final decision in the morning rather than night before.

A lot of the retailers offer a starter pack of referee kit and equipment, and it normally doesn't matter too much when you buy it. This can be the most affordable way when starting out, or seeing if there are any referees in your area passing on kit second-hand. You don't need any specific brand...

It will be explained to you on the course who to contact to be given refereeing appointments in your local competitions, and what sort of match fees you can expect. If you want to do your own research you can look up the rules for your local competitions and this will list the match fees.

Yes backpass. No idea why Martinez was allowed to be off his line (less than 10 yards away) for the restart.

The Mirror has misreported as it was not The FA reducing the sanction. It is an independent Appeal Board. The FA makes the disciplinary regulations and forms one side of the appeal proceedings, with Fletcher forming the other side in this case. The appeal board decides whether the rules were...

Seems likely that this will be covered on the next Mic'd Up and we'll get to hear Webb's take on this sort of appeal outcome.

You need to be able to sprint 40 metres without taking more than 6.2 seconds. You need to be able to run 75 metres within 17 seconds followed by a 25 metre recovery walk within 22 seconds, with 40 repeats of this (4 kilometres total distance covered). You can download an audio file to time the...

It's a registered charity so the Charity Commission can act where necessary, though I don't think any of the posts mentioned would be of concern. I do think they would be of more help to adopt a more professional tone on social media than shown in those posts.

I think it's supportable in Law under excessively delaying the restart - as the referee is delayed from whistling while they are doing that. USB possibly the 'safer' option.

Caution - delaying the restart