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Gloucestershire FA use the Yesref app to appoint to County Cup fixtures. Refs were also paid through the app

I'm 3/72 on weighted. But I'm on a sabbatical since the summer as I'm in Guernsey.

Yes today.

I got a few games when going from 5-4 at step 6. Usually during the Vase prelims where the 4s are on cup duty

We can't control what others do. If someone asks to stop for a mi it's silence then that's what I'll do. Everything that's out of my control is not something for me to worry about. It's not ideal if others haven't asked for it but it's not an issue for us

Same issue with stopping for the end of the fasting period with Ramadam. But we manage and we manage with the silence too. It's only on Armistice Day that being ready for exactly 11am is important. The minutes silence on Remembrance Weekend takes place before every game at various times on...

Seems sensible to me. If you do as asked then everyone is happy. Don't do it and everyone thinks you're being a ****. The silence is incredibly important to many people. We are encouraged to stop the game for those coming to the end of their fast during Ramadan which I fully agree with. This...

Had it been today (Armistice Day) then I could've understood it. Seems odd not to do it before the game tomorrow but there may be mitigating circumstances. For example, last year I was doing a Sunday League game on a pitch which had the village war memorial next to it. As it was remembrance...

There has been a clear reduction in yellows for delaying the restart in professional football since the last international break (which was painfully inevitable as we've seen with most initiatives down the years). This is bound to filter down into the lower levels

I think I was just unlucky with the sheer number of people on the course and the majority being DoE who had zero interest on the course. The RDO was trying to get them to shut up, stop playing football etc but he was only young and lacked authority. I learnt more at home afterwards than on the...

I've wrote about this before but there were 50 or so on my course. 90% of them were doing it instead of their Duke of Edinburgh Award and were basically just using messing around and completely uninterested. The only time they showed any interest was during the scenarios but they just wanted to...

Almost all refs penalised this myth when I was a kid growing up playing local junior football. As I progressed as an adult footballer it seemed to be the older refs that still penalised this myth so I thought it was dying out somewhat (although I still hear whinges about it in my games, I'd say...

Easily to be honest. But we're all different and the key is to understand what we can do mentally and physically. Also depends on standard. Doing 2 step 5 games would be possible but I wouldn't be physically or mentally able to guarantee that I wouldn't be hindered so I wouldn't do that...

Nice way of wasting away the 2.5 hour wait for the flight back!

I was literally just up the road from there last weekend. Walked from the airport to the ground.

As Chas said, do as many as you feel comfortable with physically and mentally.

I can't hack that! Tried it once and got out within 10 seconds! Don't even like cold showers. When I first took up the whistle in Sheffield I used to be a member of a Bannatyne centre. After games (I always did 2 on a sunday, OA AM, u21 PM) I'd always stop there and use the sauna for recovery. I...

There will always be people with different issues witht their body and no one statement could cover them all. But the general rule applies. I was also being specific on muscle soreness, injuries is much more complicated as its very individual and dependant on injury history. I'm the opposite to...

The fitter you are the less your muscles will ache. Gadgets, physios, salts etc are all things that aid the excess recovery required from not being fit enough. It's marginal gain stuff, not a substitute for fitness. Realistically the majority of referees will be running 4-8k in an amateur match...

I agree to some extent. Plenty of older refs at RAs & running them. Perhaps because they have the time to do it. But there are examples of active RAs not just run by old men that make a real effort and are of a benefit to members. I'm a member of an RA now and they provide alot of ancillary kit...