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My feeling is that it's up there as a instinct to protect the face: he's turning his face away, and look how quickly he pulls his hands down. That makes me think it isn't deliberate handling

The hardness isn't the problem. The issue is that frozen pitches have icy bits that are slippery. Players will slip and slide, but when their boot grips they go over on their ankle and break it. This is hard won personal experience!!! If a pitch is soft enough to take a stud then its playable...

Not for me, but I wouldn't criticise a ref who gave it.

I went down the chemical warm up route for a while. It worked short term but in the long run there is NO substitute for a proper warm-up and a and a bloody good stretch!!! Don't forget to cool down afterwards, and to stretch anything that's sore or troublesome!

Right, first of all, do not beat yourself up about this. Yes, there are things you can learn and do differently next time, but this is the team's fault, not yours!!! There's also every possibility that if two teams hate each other that much it's going to kick off regardless of what you do...

Yes, I think that's exactly what this is. I think it needs a hearing to impose greater than standard punishments.

County cup? Yeah, you could go home early and prevent the match being played if you want. Your county fa will not thank you for it though!!! Hang around, get the game played, stitch them up in the match report. Your county will want that game played, they will not want to have to schedule an...

Erm... It was taken out of the lotg a few years back. It is legal to contact an opponent prior to the ball as long as you do not trip/tackle/kick/etc in a careless, reckless or dangerous manner.

Might be too late, but wherever you have written "punch" or "punches", preface it with "violent".

Absolutely. If a team's star player is getting carelessly fouled out of the game because the opposition aren't good enough to stop him legally then I'm going to stop that. If giving fouls doesn't get the message, then YCs come next. Teams will do this deliberately - take it in turns to foul...

For me there's a few things here: 1) Persistent infringement is your friend. If one player is being continually fouled then PI covers this just as much as it covers one player continually fouling. Communication with the skipper is important so he knows it's coming, because the offender might...

I will always struggle to send-off for a"tackle" that just doesn't make any contact with an opponent whatsoever. YHTBT, but this sounds like a yellow card and a major telling off.

Where do you draw the line though? Obviously you think "d##k" is an S6 offence. We can safely assume that c##t and cheat would be S6s for you too, but what else? Cad? Rotter? Bounder? Fool? Idiot? Daft Apeth? Tit? Gibbon? What is the mildest word you would S6 for? or what's the worst word...

FWIW sounds to me like you handled it well. They way you've described your thought process sounds pretty sensible to me, and the fact that you're going looking for alternative opinions is sensible too. You were the referee, and it's your opinion that matters. I think you've handled this well...

Reckless is in the opinion of the referee. The fact that other referees view recklessness differently to you does not mean that they're failing to fully apply law. We have a lot of discretion with many cautions, and how we choose to use that discretion can be the difference between a great...

You know that we're there for the player's benefit and not the other way around? You talk about protecting "the game", but whose game is it? It's perfectly possible to apply LotG fully AND be sympathetic to the players and the individual match in question. In reality this normally comes down...

If you've told them to wait for the whistle then it's a retake AND a YC for delaying the restart of play. It sounds like the chap you told may not have been the taker - it's always worthwhile making sure everyone standing around the ball knows, and it's courteous to give the keeper a shout too...

Look on the brightside - you need action packed games to demonstrate level 4 competencies, so they've probably done you a favour!!

Don't just confine it to the pitch - your self control may well be massively better than everyone else's, but if you're honest with yourself then you know that even you have a limit. We all do - we're human. Also, think about what I'm saying - I'm not making excuses and I'm not last week's...

Completely agree with you. That is absolutely, 100%, what the laws say, and if they do show dissent in an unacceptable manner then they absolutely must be cautioned. Problem is, players are only human, just like us. Can you look yourself in the mirror and say that you've never lost it even...