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I thought offside but they haven't even mentioned it. I don't think I would have given the penalty either

I think the Officials have used comms to say the game is over but Parker forgot to blow his whistle to tell everyone else, it did look funny seeing the AR sprint across the pitch whilst the players were still playing

I'm with the referee on the second one, although his positioning isn't great, the Luton player is the one who starts the contact by sticking his arm out and holding off the defender and unbalancing him. Then the legs make contact without the defender appearing to do anything other than keeping...

I'm not giving a penalty in this case either....... and to be honest I wouldnt have awarded the England penalty either against Switzerland at the weekend, maybe I'm not interpreting the handball law as I should but both seemed to have their arms in natural positions for the action they were doing.

I think you've got it right all day long, the captain himself has admitted it was a foul and there is the answer. I believe we don't see enough of these decisions given by top level officials after a player gets shot away but then is clattered. I can only think of one, and that was in a...

Have your bag packed the night before and fill in the match details if you are using a notebook ie location of game, ko time, length of time of each half age of players. I also note both managers names and contact numbers Arrive early and do a pitch check and speak to managers and confirm...

Like others have said you will learn when you need to hold a 'look' a few seconds longer to see if there is any late contact, especially when the ball goes high you can have a quick glance back and then go back to the drop zone With regards to the watches, I start mine before I do the head...

The inconstancies are annoying, I know every tackle is different and taken on its own merits, but once again the criteria for a red have been met. If you let that go on a Sunday every player starts doing the same and someone risk being seriously hurt. Not sure why Clattenburg says its okay...

No you can't. It would mean you reacting to everything players, coaches etc are telling you. Nobody can obviously see everything that happens on a pitch, although Officials are expected to be super human and have several pairs of eyes once we step onto the field of play. We can only react to...

I'm sorry but what I've seen so far the Premiership referees have got it totally wrong this season The talk after the Euro's was about letting the game flow more by stopping the soft free kicks for falling over at the slightest contact. The Premiership referee's are allowing brutal tackles to...

How Dean fails to even award a free kick for that challenge is beyond belief, he's looking straight at it, and like said, straight leg, studs first and the momentum of the tackle. If the English official's are trying to let the game 'flow' because of how things were done at the Euro's.....they...

Ashley Barnes challenge on Dallas in the Leeds penalty area.......surely that's a straight red card, everything about it was totally wrong. Michael Oliver issued a yellow but having seen the Arsenal red yesterday this looked much worse and Barnes was airborne, studs first and nowhere near the...

I'll have a copy please Ross.

There's no totally correct place to stand for a free kick, or corner for that matter. Like you I tend to look out for offside runners during the taking of a free kick, I think its very important if the keeper spills the shot or it rebounds off a post, but I've had an occasion when the ball has...

From my experience at Academies they don't want any cards and say they will deal with any issues.......had a game last year at U16's when a player from the visiting team committed a DOGSO as I was getting the card out the home team coaches were saying 'No card Ref just the penalty'. As stated...

Some great advice there from experienced officials and like has been mentioned this is a great forum to use. I would definitely report the coach who made the comment 'it wouldn't end good for you' and the stuff he said at half time......this fella shouldn't be anywhere near youth football, he...

It gets worse the more you watch it........I wonder what the explanation will be to justify VAR not giving it........surely they're not going down the line of NOT Clear and Obvious all of a sudden. After a season of bizarre interjections they suddenly turn a blind eye on a most clear penalty so far

I suggested the exact thing to my local league.....cancel league tables but run the remaining fixtures as friendlies so no pressure on teams who struggle to play any matches and risk facing fines etc

Totally agree......the inconsistencies with VAR are so untrue......three games today alone have everyone shaking their heads with missed decisions, wrong decision, over ruling somethings but not others, LOTG being interpreted differently week to week .

But surely VAR recommendations are just another Refs view of an incident......Dean can still say NO having watched the footage himself and then discussed it Mason after the match. If West Ham appeal it will be interesting to see the outcome with Dean having one overturned already this week