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Pretty tight, I reckon. Not so tight are the Wrexham players who retrieve the ball after the save, though Edit: just looked at the view from behind. Looks a bit worse there

I wouldn't say what you described was a KMI. That term is reserved for match defining events like penalty, goal, and red card decisions. You were right in law not to stop play - player colliding with referee is not one of those incidents for which we award a DB. I wouldn't be concerned about...

There are two questions to ask: a) was the player in OSP at the time the ball was played, and b) after the ball was played, and before it was deliberately played by an opponent or touched by a teammate, did the player interfere with the goalkeeper by being in his line of sight The answer to the...

I'll allow it

Red cards are not rare. Issuing them, when the laws require, is part of the job. It is not personal and you should not allow it to become personal, despite the any effort by the player to do so. It probably only took me a few weeks. It slowed down considerably when my man-management improved...

The way the IFAB uses language is neither particularly well structured nor does it tend to follow any useful convention. That's why we try to work out their meaning by referring to what they have said previously. I'm sure you read my previous point that, unlike with most deliberate changes to...

I'm literally unsure you know what literally means

Again, you're giving credence to a reading of the laws which is based on order of phrases. 'to provide reasonable protection' could easily refer to the shinguards as a whole and not merely the material. My argument is that this is what is intended and I base that on the history of the laws and...

The law says they need to be shinpads. If they have been hacked to pieces they are no more shinpads than your newspaper example. I would also go further. I know how much we all love our laws history. The 1995/6 laws say: (2)Shinguards,which must be covered entirely by the stockings, shall be...

I disagree. If a shinpad has been manufactured to a particular size, I think a referee is justified in finding it is no longer the same item if has been altered in a significant way. I'm certain that is what the manufacturer would say in answer to a claim. It is not a shinpad. Much like if I...

In the convict realm it is income derived from a hobby and thus is not assessable. Of course, this is only useful to you if there is some comparable provision in the mother country's income tax laws.

The clearest option would be that the ball is not in play unless it is stationary having been set by the hands and then clearly moves after being kicked. Saves this ambiguous 'kick it around a bit and then pretend its not in play' thing that goes on.

Close one - the defender has broken away at the time of handling and it seems that the ball has held up. But I'm with Rusty - my threshold for overcoming doubt would be a lot lower in these innocent circumstances than others.

Suspend. Resume when safe - or not, as the case may be.

Tell her it's to keep the players at a distance. It's a safety thing, love

I suspect the punch may have looked more like a shove with the chest and a swinging bicep from a different angle. Not convinced he caught the face, despite the writhing by blue. I'll go with the ref, in the absence of a second angle. I accept that it looks awful, though

Actually, on a re-read there is an or between rebounds and saves. Fair point. If you can find that circular that would be grand! Still, this blokes hands are on the ball for a fair while. Surely we can't think that if a ball smacks into a GK midriff and he catches it with both arms that he...

The word save is joined with the word rebound. The Here he puts the ball between his hand and the ground for an extended period during which the ball cannot be played by any attacker. This was not a rebound. He then removes his hands and waits to be approached by an attacker before handling...

It would take some big danglers. It looks like there were a few appeals though!

Who is tempted to give an indirect freekick here? Can imagine the blowback, but has to be the correct decision.