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Hi Lewis In all honesty, getting pre-season friendlies is more down to who you know. From my experience, at Contrib/Supply level and above, lots of clubs have a contact in the county FA or referees' association that approach a friend/colleague of an appropriate level to referee the game. The...

If it's black, then yes. But if it's Football League badged and you're out on a Sunday morning, you'd better be good! Prepare yourself for some comments! If it's not black, then unfortunately you won't be permitted to wear it for FA-affiliated games (which should be all your games!)

Cheshire ref is right; there are a few Level 4s who are bitter that they have never been selected for Level 3, and have got to the point now where they are going through the motions. Often they'll put their lack of upwards movement down to the fact that they're a) too old b) their face doesn't...

Eh? Don't agree with any of this to be honest. 1. As Padfoot says, judge the challenge on the challenge and not the result, which can be misleading. 2. In your incident that you've described; if you're stopping play "for an injury" then you're doing just that. You didn't give a free kick but...

Well done if you were one of the following 236 people to be promoted to Level 4 this year. Elliott Mayer Amateur Football Alliance Mourad Bougouizi Amateur Football Alliance Jerome Francourt Amateur Football Alliance James Kerten Amateur Football Alliance Peter Stillwell Amateur Football...

Once promoted to Level 4, you are on the FA's National List of Referees - it represents a big step up from Level 5; you're working in a team of 3 every week and when lining on the contrib, can be officiating in front of three and four-figure crowd numbers. A big step up from one man and his dog...

Congratulations to all who have been promoted. From experience I know what a brilliant feeling it is! Comiserations @J-K. What was your average assessment mark?

Agreed Padfoot, I'm not sure that's really acceptable.

I should point out I'm a medical student and not yet the real thing(!) but this is perfectly normal, and most likely attributed to the vasodilation that occurs as a response to exercise, to allow heat loss through the extremities. In very rare cases it can be a sign of hyponatremia (drinking too...

It's not your place to do that, that's my only point. The OPs refereeing career, appointments, and his subsequent attitude towards said appointments, has absolutely nothing to do with you. By all means criticise his attitude through the forum (I'm not overly enamored with the 'in it for the Nike...

Brian, who on earth do you think you are? This is a forum where people can share their thoughts on refereeing, it is not up to you to self-police, picking and choosing things that people have said, and then threaten to essentially 'tell on them' when they don't adhere to your personal agenda of...

That's a famous story that is mostly false. Although Soviet cosmonauts did use pencils in space for a time, so did the Americans. However, it quickly became clear that pencils were a very bad idea since they had a habit of breaking and sending tiny eye-seeking fragments of pencil lead and...

I used to do it quite a bit when reffing local Saturday/Sunday football, because it is a useful tool to integrate yourself into the game if used properly. However, having climbed a couple of levels, I don't do it now because I've found that players simply aren't interested in that kind of thing...

Haha yeah. Doesn't it completely devalue people's hard work to get from 7-6-5 in the last year or two, just to be told they'd be a 5 now anyway?

That's absolute lunacy. So anyone can now go straight for Level 4 whenever they want? I'm not getting enough games as it is!

I never saw them below Supply level. Some Level 4s will use them on Supply League games, and the majority of Level 3s have them on the Contrib.

Well done. There have been, and will be many more, referees who fail to dismiss having been called a 'cheat', so well done for dealing with a clear case of OFFINABUS. I personally wouldn't bother calling the captain in when dismissing a player, that's more for the stepped approach before a...

Never prejudge! Just go out and ref it as it comes. But I'd have your pencil sharpened and ready... ;)

It says more about your colleagues Regalref. Spot on by the sounds of it: see the offence, judge the severity, decide it's excessive force, red card. The assessor is right, plenty of referees wouldn't have the 'intestinal fortitude' shall we say to do it, especially with the player cleverly...

Sunderland AFC (Reserve Team) v Everton FC (Reserve Team) Barclays U21 Premier League - Division 1 Referee: Backhouse, Anthony Assistant Referee: Ellis, Christopher Assistant Referee: Mulligan, John Anthony Backhouse is a Level 2B, which means he referees on the National League North and acts...