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Our local youth league has just proposed increasing match fees, to effectively compete with surrounding leagues. Other leagues have a lot higher match coverage than this one, and the main difference is the fee - so clearly referees are going where the money is. The new proposals have stepped...

I agree that the keeper can safely handle the ball in this scenario, but that's not actually what the law says. A defender can deliberately kick the ball to his GK, and an attacker can make an attempt to intercept that ball. If the attacker gets a touch on the ball, that doesn't nullify the fact...

The formula for working out your average club mark is: Number of matches where there was a winning team * 95 Number of matches where there was a losing team * 61 (Number of matches where the result was a draw * 2) * 80 Add the three numbers together, and divide by (2 * total number of...

Ask yourself, is the player sending you a friend request someone who you would call a friend? If not, delete the *friend* request. I use FB for friends, LinkedIn for associates, although not sure I would want some random player I referee occasionally to be posting things to me on LinkedIn.

As a neutral watching on MotD, it would have been better if the penalty had been retaken. The double-touch is unfair on the GK, as it changes the direction of the ball, whilst the free kick to Man City as a result of the double-touch was unfair to Leicester - rightly awarded a penalty, and the...

They look great, and you could probably get a pair to match the colour of your new shirt next season... :D

Padfoot takes a couple of inexperienced (in his eyes) assistants out for a Sunday morning stroll. "Pah, don't want none of this modern stuff to get in the way of the game, and remember - I drove here in a black car 'cos there is no other colour available, same as my referee kit. Now, enuff of...

For those saying, and debating, that they don't believe this will reduce dissent, fair comment. For those that are thinking up the worst case scenarios that are likely to happen in 1 in 10,000 games and they themselves will never experience, and citing that as the reason why this should not be...

That's another discussion, and I agree - the FA should grow a pair and consistently and continually enforce from the top down.

I'm not sure why people are saying this will attract further dissent? From what I read in the mail contained in the OP, the caution is still a caution - the player is just "paying" for the caution with 10 minutes off the pitch rather than filling the CFA's coffers with £10. So if that player...

I'm sure I've seen a video of just this - whether its a YouTube video or on a referee's course or on a coaching course - I don't recall, but definitely somewhere, at some point, this has passed my eyeballs. If USB though, are you booking every single player that is in the chain? Could you argue...

Don't know why there is concern around sin bins - a good idea and simple to administer. Just ask managers to politely request that a player be allowed to re-enter the FOP when the 10 minutes is up. You check the time you noted, and if 10 minutes or more has passed you allow the player back on...

I can't believe the tournament organisers would have got their CFA sanction for the event if they had specified this in their competition rules. Tournaments within our CFA, for a few years now, have been no IDFK's, blue cards/sin bin rather than yellow cards, but all red card offences remain...

The plastic goals in the OP can be secured to the ground so that they don't topple forwards, but they certainly have very little vertical rigidity. You could quite easily push the top of an upright sideways to move the top of the bar. So the scenario could happen having checked that the goals...

Gosh - Sussex CFA at (re-)registration you can order the hard copy of the LotG, Referee patch for your kit, Respect patches for the arms of your kit, and a county tie. Not sure why, if they can offer all this, the other CFA's can't.

I always order the new one when I re-register with my CFA, which I have just done again for 17/18. Does your CFA not offer this option?

But the same points from above apply - how many officials were there that could have highlighted the error at the time (4th official screaming down the comm set at the ref). What if no "official" spotted this at all, or manager etc at the time, and someone at home watching it realised the...

Or it would be like someone complaining that the referee did an incorrect restart after an incident, and the next day the match having to be replayed from the point on the clock that the original mistake had happened. I can't imagine that ever happening though. Oh, wait...

For me, its the move from mini-soccer to youth football, so at U11 players become "bookable". Although, as per other responses, you still need to take a view at the lower age ranges.

Does this not count?