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What did he say?

I doubt anything will come of it, but as an official I feel I should at least report it.

Thanks guys. I will drop them an email tomorrow 👍🏼

Referee didn’t turn up for my son’s U13 game this morning so the home side had the guy from the cafe stand-in. I was CAR and as he gave me his pre-match talk I got the impression he didn’t really want to do it so I said I was a referee myself and offered to officiate but he assured me he was an...

Sin-binned my own son a few weeks ago after a 50/50 throw-in decision went against his team and he said 'You need to put your glasses on ref' 🤷‍♂️

Ah ok I see what you meant now! Having said that, unless it was said for everyone's benefit (ie shouted) or with any aggression I'm probably not issuing a sin-bin for that.

I'm always very wary of calling a player 'mate' :facepalm:

Where was the dissent? There isn't a fine for a Sin Bin

After my first sin-binning, the lad’s manager came over at full time and thanked me. He said it was exactly what he needed and no other ref had done anything about his backchat. To be fair to the lad, when he came back on he never said a word and had a very good game.

When a goal is scored we see a VAR check for any potential offside, yet when an offside is given we see no such check as to whether it was correct and stopped a potential goal scoring opportunity. I wonder if we will ever see a scenario where offside is only given if it led to a goal? I...

How do we as referees know a player is wearing shin pads? They could have anything vaguely rectangular down their socks.

Hopefully they will send the manager a polite reminder to check his emails!

You said it yourself, “if you do it again it is a sending off offence” … if it is the second time, then it was the first time.

I had a match appointed last weekend that got called off due to a waterlogged pitch and so I got appointed to the same rescheduled fixture tomorrow. I hadn’t heard from the manager so this morning I sent him a message asking if the game was going ahead as I hadn’t had any contact. He replied...

That would be for swearing in general. Personally I wouldn’t be insulted by the “F****** hell Ref” but the minute he tags on the “F*** you Ref” he makes it personal and therefore I’d be deeming it OFFINABUS

RC OFFINABUS for me

What exactly did he say? I certainly wouldn’t threaten to send a player off as you are setting yourself up for problems later especially if the opposition here you say it “you said you were going to send him off ref!”

I am amazed that the Gusto challenge on Willian wasn’t upgraded to a RC. Studs up with force above the ankle I was 100% sure VAR would recommend a review.

No nitpicking, my bad choice of wording! But I think this is the problem. Suggesting a review is essentially telling the referee they think they got it wrong and they seem reluctant to do it sometimes, so it isn’t doing what it is supposed to… Correct errors! In rugby the referee asks ‘Is there...

Theatrics didn’t hurt Jota or Fernandes in the eyes of VAR so it shouldn’t have.