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My buzzer flags have encountered a problem. The receiver unit keeps turning itself off. These are refstech flags. Having spent some time playing around with it, I can’t quite put my finger on what’s making it turn off, but it seems to go off most when I play around with the bronze colour...

Hi All A few questions... 1. Outside the view of the referee, a player commits an act of violent conduct with the ball in play. At the next stoppage, a different player receives a physio assessment and leaves the field of play for treatment. Just as the referee is due to restart play, their AR...

Slow news day... so... Anyone have any times players have correctly pointed something out to them and they've had to go 'oh wait, actually you're right'? I remember I passed my test just as the 'double jeopardy' rule was introduced, I sent someone off for DOGSO and awarded a penalty and was...

No idea how true this is… but surely there’s no law basis for this? Or am I missing something?

Dogso? Extremely harsh imo. And failure to spot the penalty in real time not great either! Turpin highly rated it would seem but not necessarily his finest 90.

Is it just me that is getting refchat as being down more often than not down recently? Seems to have been getting progressively worse... today it'll go down for an hour then come back online for a short period before going down again.

Slow news day... What refereeing situations have never happened to you? I don't mean like a streaker on the pitch or really bizarre ones. I mean the ones that you would expect to have come across at some point in your time refereeing that you haven't. For me... I've never given a penalty...

Slow news day... so... a couple of interesting articles from the BBC about managers and their touchline antics (depending on what you'd consider interesting of course) Where Managers Stand General article about watching managers

As a precursor to this, I’ve only seen it once, very quickly, but the 2nd yellow for Van Hecke… is that not a blatant dogso red card? Same outcome obviously.

Just thought this was an interesting article... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c3378054g1no (see bottom bit) Our future King is one of us... (a forum user, not a referee) 😆 Some of the heated debates all forums get in to... imagine if you're having a row with Prince William...

This is a weak area of my game - identifying persistent infringement. I was pulled up on my last observation as having missed a caution for persistent infringement. I've been told to say the offender's number in my head every time I award a free kick and this will help me tot up who is being a...

Probably shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted here, as I completed my first match on Saturday post injury... but... inspired by @KentRef to start a thread... I'm wondering if any medical experts or on the off chance someone has had similar can offer some advice... I was out...

Just seen this clip on social media. I don’t like criticising officials and I’m often a staunch defender of them, but I think if we don’t issue a caution in situations like this we’re setting a very dangerous precedent. Edit: can’t upload video, so here is a still image of Emi Martinez...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cwyjgxwzrleo Surprised by this. Fair play to her on an extremely successful career though!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy76pdz5152o It's almost like we had a little preview of his true character last season when he said that referees were 'all ruining our game'...

The board is quiet, so thought I'd open a law debate. (Or it might not be a debate, it may be unanimous) An attacker on a counter attack rounds the keeper who has come a long way out of goal. He kicks the ball towards goal and begins to wheel off celebrating, removing his shirt before the ball...

Released by The FA https://www.thefa.com/news/2024/may/17/the-fa-releases-national-league-system-club-allocations-for-steps-1-6-in-2024-25-term

This could be a short thread if nobody could find it… but… I’m told that Assignon tripped over his own leg, appealed for a penalty and lost his mind when it wasn’t given, his own team mates were telling him to get up and he was eventually cautioned. Has anyone got a video?

...From the first round proper onwards. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68844583 Think this is a shame. Will stop some non-league and lower league clubs earning big pay days with a replay...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/68656620 Interesting... looks like Rugby's much lauded TMO system isn't bombproof after all!