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I'm still no better at understanding under what law a player could be cautioned for the push by the fan.

But the only reference. I can see to that is celebration of a goal, even if disallowed. This was not that? Other references relate to team officials.

Under what law should a yellow card be issued? Only one I can see is a generic USB.

I would not disagree with the ref pulling the red but I would not have done it. ;) Anytime I hear foul language at that age, if said in heat of moment, I would have a "please don't use bad language on the pitch", or if said more maliciously, I would give a more forceful response. Yellow if...

The wife advised me last week I didn't need to wear a baselayer last Saturday as it was "quite mild" (I'm in Ireland). I took her advice and low and behold, during game 1 (of 3), clouds came over, temps dropped and it rained. I was wet and freeeziiinng. Drove to game 2, and luckily brought my...

I use a Rite in the Rain notebook and Uni PowerTank - both will write in pretty wet conditions. We have separate match cards but we don't need them during the match.

I had two incidents over the past month that come to mind for this thread: Exactly as was mentioned earlier - center half of attacking team plays long ball. Defender jumps for ball, barely grazes their head but continues through to two offside attackers, one of whom went on to score. Defending...

Honestly, I find myself in this situation a number of times almost every match for throw-ins as I do games solo. Legs flying, rebounds or grazing legs or boots on way out. Actually, I made a throw in call Saturday on a best guess as there was a bunch of players around the ball as it pinged out...

One of my absolute pet peeves that comes more from the side line but also players..... "How is he?" which some teams just should on every quick attack hoping for an offside call. I much rather someone just shout "offside" if they think its offside. Instead "how is he?" tends to seed doubt...

When I started a few months ago, the best advice I got was to be happy if you got 80% of your decisions (or non decisions) correct. I would also encourage new referees to be human - try have a chat with the group at the start - ask how their season is going. I also explain to them what kind of...