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Looks fancy, but will be pretty fiddly to manage during a game with everything else going on. Edited to add - my favourite is the Fox's one, that comes with a great (and loud) whistle: Fox Set

Unfortunately not very up to date (or variable, at least). I did 3 quizzes and found at least two questions that were definitely wrong in law (eg. goal kicks must leave the area) and at least two more I thought were dubious! On that point - if the ball is thrown in properly, hits the referee...

Hello, me too! The FA appoints directly to this league and you should receive a message from Carla Parker encouraging you to make sure you're up to date on MOAS to ensure that she can process this. I believe it's a range of referees and assistants though so I don't know what divisions any of...

That is the way it's meant to work I think. In my case I ended up speaking to the new county RDO who then sorted it with my previous county - so perhaps if they both know it will get sorted one way or another!

I think that's treading a dangerous path tbh - CARS aren't unbiased and may well want to draw your attention to, for instance, an opposition striker who they've disagreed with but who hasn't committed any offence. It's a fine line to judge, but you need to support them but recognise that they...

Ultimately it's your decision. As Kes says, it's useful to brief the club assistants to make it clear that you will overrule them if you're sure they're wrong in law. Typically this happens when they flag early and someone else runs through from an onside position. It's the being sure that...

And I thought Big Sam came from Dudley, not Sheffield.

This comes from origins in rugby of course, where you still have to be behind the ball to receive it. The challenge and skill in both games relies on taking territory by going forward with the ball, so it was deemed unsporting to be able to knock it forward to someone who's just waiting for it.

We had a good little discussion about this a short while ago - there might be some handy hints here for dealing with these kinds of game management issues: 'one of those games'

With Andrew's permission, here's a version I adapted to suit my more regular role as an AR (I took out the sin bin columns and replaced them with times/subs).

If it was only ever used for the shocker (which happens very occasionally of course) there would be a fraction of the calls for it to be scrapped.

Yes, although it would line up quite nicely with the 'genuine attempt' element of DOGSO in the penalty area.

In my experience this is often the cause of that kind of game which slowly slips away from you. It's also a problem which often comes from a good place ('I'm going to let the players play' and/or 'it is a contact sport', etc). Then before you know it you've played advantage where the team...

To be honest, this is the counter argument to the VAR offside debacle. If it's so close that it's impossible to tell after several viewings then I'd much rather they didn't look for reasons to rule out goals. Better that one guilty man goes free than 10 goals are ruled out. Or something.

You are speaking for us though. I'm Type 1 diabetic and so can't wear contacts (the eye shape changes according to the levels of glucose in capillaries). I've worn glasses since I first qualified in 1998. The worst that's ever happened is the odd spectator having a good laugh at my expense...

I think that's the only reasonable explanation - but I don't think that tallies with the tweet following.

Absolutely this. It's actually more about not saying the wrong thing. Best advice I got was to take your time, don't be afraid to use your personality and read the temperature of the moment. So I'm a man of few words (and they really aren't listening anyway, except to argue), so for me it's...

Just one of the reasons this is such a useful forum. I'll second this one, as I had a really bad experience with this early on (back in about 1999!) and have never done it since. You can use plenty of other phrases to make the same point without ever being quite so concrete and painting...

Yes! It really annoys me when pundits say this. I can still remember the arguments before the DOGSO law came in and it was exactly the same - "what's the defender meant to do when the attacker is one on one with the keeper?!". We wouldn't accept that now and we should be mindful of the same...

Better still, what happens if the attacking side then commit a foul themselves during this period? What if it's SFP?