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I've been coaching for two years and have never seen a card produced (my kids will be U11 next season). I've been refereeing for 11 years and have never needed to produce a card anywhere below U13. I have witnessed one game as a coach where I would definitely have issued a yellow card to a U10...

This is slightly different because the striker did not get a shot off. However, if you think the shot was affected by by the ankle clip then a penalty is the correct decision.

Yeah that's right, although I'm actually level 5 so I'll be 5(a), not 5(b). See, it's not confusing at all!

We are about to change our level names, and we also have two levels, one for the women's pathway and one for the men's. Next season I will be a level 5(b) (men's) and level 4W (women's).

That is definitely what's best for the player. It's quite a responsibility for the referee, particularly a young ref dealing with an adult coach.

So what happens if a referee thinks he sees symptoms of a concussion but the coach disagrees? Can the referee insist that the player is removed?

In grassroots football the likelyhood is that nobody present is qualified to make a judgement. (Although there's a team called London Hospital Old Boys who play in my league and every player is a doctor.) Given the stakes I think if there's any doubt the player should not play on. Why take the...

I was wondering the same thing. I don't think it's a good idea to place the decision in the hands of the referee. I had a clash of heads in my game last week, the guy was down for several minutes. He finally announced he was ok to continue. I said to the coach there's only 3 minutes left till...

I don't think I've ever seen somebody shield the ball without using their torso. I mean, it's impossible. What a silly rule.

How do you hold a player off without using your body?

Assuming we are talking about youth referees, per the OP, unless they also supply the suits and boots I think this is very silly. To answer the original question really the most important thing is to get there early so you have loads of time and there is no panic. There is nothing worse than...

If you'd read the comments you'd know it was actually 'decent' (or 'descent').

You are definitely wrong about this. As of the start of this season the match count and MDC count never reset unless you have a full year with no games.

That's exactly what happened. He tried to pull out of the challenge but ended up bringing him down anyway. I thought the ref had a good game. He missed one foul on Jesus where his boot was removed and they went on to score from the restart but if missing one foul is worst thing that happens...

This is a bit misleading. Assuming you're on 7->6 or 6->5 there is no deadline. Unless you don't do any games for a year all your games, tests and and coach reports carry over indefinitely.

I thought they were virtually identical.

You're preaching to the converted here. Tell Ed ;)

Presumably they must eventually either pass, fail, or withdraw? How do you decide whether to promote them at the end of the following period, do you send more coaches out?

I write web application software which 16 CFAs use to administer their promotion schemes. Among those CFAs there have been 1748 promotions started. 34 candidates have withdrawn. 306 have been promoted. Guess how many have failed.

In practice this is exactly what it means. I've been told unofficially that the FA refereeing dept might be open to discussing failing a candidate if the CFA presents a case but there is no formal or official process for not promoting somebody who meets the criteria. That was basically the whole...