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It's entirely possible you're instinct to take no action was correct. Not every playing of the ball with two legs is SFP. This may not even qualify as a tackle or a challenge given he (on my reading, because the attacker has fallen over the legs rather than the feet of the defender) is well...

Not super late in my view. He wouldn't have made contact with the send off player if not for the leg being in a weird position. Green has jumped and his foot is still at the height of his own shoulder. it may be (slightly) unfortunate, but it has to be a send off. The contact is too flush...

Finding a booking for him at 6:15 might have saved the later stuff. No one is Nostradamus though

Play on!

Shirt off and a two handed groin chop directed at opposition spectators?

B is correct. If red had a promising attack in which the ball was somehow last touched in their own PA

I'd be inclined to point to the fact that law 5 refers to 'The referee:' and does not include the assistants. Don't think it strictly matters in NSW though. It's still an offence under Table B and will include a minimum fixture suspension of (I think) 3 fixtures, depending on how bad we're...

If they are actually adopting an aggressive attitude and not simply dissenting there's a good shout to say they're walking for OFFINABUS - mainly the ABUS bit

I have a higher bar for GK in their penalty area. Generally they're hard to hear and if I can hear them, and it's bad I'll be awarding a freekick Nd it will be obvious why. It hasn't ruined a match for me yet. I get that it's unusual and unexpected, but that can be dealt with. What is more...

There'll be referees getting marked down for butterflies flapping their wings in Japan

An audio announcement would have been terrible. She was obviously frazzled. Beat practice for me would have been: 1) point to watch when it buzzed, but not over sell it 2) make sure everyone knows they need to wait for a check 3) when check complete get the Swedish player away before whistling...

Relying on a sensor in the ball to discount a deflection or a grazing of the ball seems fraught with danger to me

If these are the available angles there has to be a question as to whether the England player did get a touch. Looks to have touched her when it came off the shoulder of the Chinese player It appeared to be a very cursory trip to the monitor for the number of decisions that needed to be made...

Perhaps trying to impress by getting too close? Probably a good match for a learning experience. It'll all be forgotten tomorrow

Referee saved on comms re location of dropped ball. Not saved in that China were deprived of a good attacking opportunity by her being trapped in the line of their shot

You must have good eyes if we're watching the same broadcast. And if the England player touched the ball - which certainly looks to have happened - the only decision could be that the goal should have stood.

Nah, probably not red. It was just as likely to hit the keeper as go I the net so not an obvious goal. You'll just have to have a think about what you think the laws require and have a talk to the referees in your area to see what they are doing in those circumstances

Stopping a promising attack - some referees/refereeing organisations are of the view that stopping a shot on goal (which is not obviously going in) is the same as stopping a promising attack. There is a lot of debate about it on this forum

Try explaining that like I had to on Saturday night...

That's all well and good assuming that the touch needs to be uncontested in order to be a deliberate play. I don't accept that it does but we'll put that to one side. It looks a hell of a lot like the England player touched the ball. If so, the offside position needs to be determined afresh...