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Genuinely perplexed as to an incident yesterday and cannot tell whether I messed up or whether the knowledge of the laws is really that bad. 1-1 after about 15 minutes in an U12 game. Away team takes a long range effort, keeper saves, it falls to away striker who taps it in. Away striker is...

I had a feeling this would be the answer. Interested to know if everyone would really add time on as per the Laws of The Game for an U12 game personally. I can only remember really adding time on thrice in junior football. First one for a bad injury that took 5 minutes. Second one for obvious...

I went to watch my younger brothers U16s game last Sunday, and something has been eating on my mind since. The ref is a very good one, very experienced. He’s in his 70s now, referred in the National League and been an AR in the Football League. His grandson plays in a team I referreed often and...

Guess who’s back... back again. It’s me with another question although this one is a lot more plausible than my last one So, imagine this scenario. Team 1 get a direct free kick which they look to take quickly. A Team 2 player shouts stand on the ball and his teammate does so. The player who...

Im not called Clive but thanks Santa, big fan of what you do around Christmas time each year

Thanks for the answers all, interesting reaction

I understand this is an unlikely event to happen in a football match, but someone asked me this the other day and I was intrigued as to what other refs would say A Player of Team A (let’s call him Player 1) is stood in an offside position. A teammate of his (Player 2) passes back to Team A’s...