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Was using wonder web but the badges just fell off in the wash. Mother in law has just sown them on for me but it doesn’t look great so I’ll be taking it to a dry cleaners or something to get them sown on properly. Was considering gorilla glue at one point...try it out and let us know how it...

Can’t see anyone being happy going down to 10/9/8 men regularly, especially when it’s just for being a big mouth. I believe it will get the message across that dissent isn’t acceptable...providing it’s punished on a consistent basis!

I reffed my first game with sin-bins in effect yesterday...first game I’ve heard both managers instructing their players not to ‘argue with the ref’, lads (U16) were as good as gold. It serves as a decent deterrent IMO.

Diagonal only really works with AR’s though doesn’t it? It’s pretty pointless without them.

The advice I’ve been given is to stay wide...which isn’t ideal when play ends up on the other side of the pitch and you aren’t in the best position to call the correct decision. It was a worry of mine before I started but I haven’t found it to be much of an issue yet. The blatant ones you can...

Have they scrapped the ‘can only ref one fa cup final’ rule?

Gave a throw-in the wrong way- forgot to look at what the NAR had given & contradicted her decision...no biggie right? Well that directly led to an attack where I awarded a PK (clear foul) but may have JUST been outside the box. Well it was according to my NAR, who only thought of telling me...

I still can’t believe the Tyne-wear derby is played in home shirts. It’s a nightmare to watch. I’m sure they had the same colour shorts one game too. Edit: they did, madness.

I take exception to that...most new born males in liverpool are evertonians 😉

UEFA’s interpretation done me no favours tonight...teams wanted handball for everything 🙄. “It’s got to be deliberate lads”, “no it hasn’t”, “yes it has, read the laws”, “shurup” (Kevin the teenager esq)...he asked me if I was joking when I went back and booked him for dissent. Kids eh.

It wasn’t disallowed because it was never a handball. No movement of the arm towards the ball, in a natural position, was tucked in as much as possible- so no chance of ref applying the ‘silhouette’ reasoning. It’s never a handball in a million years. I’m confident the ref would’ve came to the...

Subconsciously, or maybe not, officials give favourable decisions to the ‘media teams’...if VAR was in place this season Liverpool wouldn’t be top, they probably wouldn’t even be close. Not sure what the count is up to but they’ve had several offside goals allowed & numerous penalties awarded as...

You want the right decisions at the end of the day. It was fair tonight. I don’t think it will be fair on a consistent basis next season. Some officials will see what they want.

Good man...easy 😉

A couple of months ago and Liverpool county. Honestly mate you’ve got nothing to worry about, if you’ve done your research you’ll smash it.

If it’s anything like mine you can’t fail and they’ll give you plenty of ‘help’ along the way. Apparently the marks aren’t recorded anyway. You’ll be fine. 👍🏻

Oh I don’t know about that...I had a group of parents mention my attire, commenting that I was the first referee they’d seen that actually looked like a referee 😂. That’s as far as it goes IMO, as soon as you’re on the pitch it doesn’t make a blind bit of difference what kit you’re wearing...

I had one kid (kid...U13 & about 6’3!) bang on about a corner every time he got within talking distance of me for a good 5 mins, it was one of them that seemed to come off both players at the same time in a sliding tackle-GK), I just asked him if he was REALLY going to moan all game about a...

I found this myself with the few I’ve done as AR. Especially if there’s a bit of a pinball scenario near the touchline. I think it’s because you need that second to process who it came off, then a moment to make sure you flag in the correct direction...problem is ‘football’ wants the flag...

Hmmm...reminds me of the “what’s my name b’tch?” scene from American pie! I hope you’d ask your AR with less gusto.