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Yes, as long as they have genuinely tried to play the ball away. This is for those times when a keeper tries to clear the ball from a backpass/throw-in and - for instance - slices it into the air. They are then allowed to use their hands to save it or catch it rather than be penalised as it...

Yes, this is a good old chestnut! The proper 'old chestnut' reply is to say that a throw-in is - almost always - just a means of getting the ball back into play. We therefore shouldn't be too fussy about how that is done. In my world, as long as it looks like a throw-in, and the player isn't...

Agree completely. He looks marginally offside to start with, then takes the defender out. So either offside - interfering with opponent or, as you say, just a simple foul.

I'm a Liverpool fan, so also biased. For me Konate was stronger but slightly behind the player when he moved into him, so my heart was slightly in my mouth - one of those we've all 'seen given'! Similarly for Fabinho - strong yellow, possible red - although it looked much worse on the replay...

Couldn't be much more of a deliberate touch, clearly trying to head it back to the keeper. No doubt for me at all.

Completely agree that can be the case. However, it would have been wholly unjustified to give it so I think would have just raised other problems.

Red card the parent, caution the player and abandon the game... ;) More seriously, I'm with those who say let it happen and, if necessary, say to the manager afterwards that it might be an idea to discourage parents doing that in case it gets things out of proportion.

Completely with you on this. I've had one in the past where it was 100% a careless foul - very very minor contact that caused a trip. Unfortunately the player who went down I think suffered a dislocation so was in terrible pain and an ambulance was called. Players and managers were calling...

Love the commentator trying to help but being totally wrong as per. Said something like 'this eventuality is never going to be covered in a referee's exam' - every exam I can remember, going back to 1998, included some kind of 'outside agent' problem resulting in a drop ball - it's just the...

Maybe, but you are approaching this from the right perspective I think. You are trying to engage with people on a level and that is commendable. You just have to be very clear where the boundaries lie - very few players/managers are going to try and help you, they are always much more likely...

Yes, until the more recent guidance I'd have gone the other way entirely, but when you look at the videos the interpretation now does clearly skew in favour of the defending team again.

In my very first game I allowed a substitution when the ball was still in play - it was after an injury and the keeper had the ball in his hands. I still remember that (about 150 years later), but apart from a bit of embarrassment it didn't affect the game at all and nobody else probably...

This hits the nail on the head. People don't want an objective answer, they want the reason they can't have what they want (a decision, a win, a tight call) to be somebody's fault. Even with increased consistency, we need referees because interpretation of the laws is often subjective, so...

I'm inclined to agree - I don't think that's dogso either. Is it possible the receiver is offside in any case...?

Yes, reckless is literally not caring about your opponent's safety, so typically doing something in an attempt to get (or keep) the ball that might cause injury.

Oh absolutely :). I still go into games thinking about things that happened years ago, just in case!

Slightly odd article, but raises again the question about how the FA approaches these incidents. Guardian link: referee attacked

Thanks for this - I think you've captured what my thoughts were at the time there. I think if this happened again - with the players complaining - I would call the managers together at a stoppage and ask if they wanted to pause and see if they could be removed. This hasn't happened to me in...

I managed to get my reports in just now after trying (on and off) since around 8.45 this morning...

Not a very high level game, non-paying but high enough to be in a private ground. Apparently abusive to the Club AR, though I didn't hear that myself and he didn't indicate as much (though in hindsight I should've gone over for a chat with him when the players complained about it). Absolutely...