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I was lucky enough to experience my first ever abandonment due to mass fighting today. It was a mens Sunday league friendly and both teams only had 11 players. Both team managers ran the line and so the game started. The red team had a set of twins playing upfront and there were a couple...

Does anyone know if there is a clear and definite rule with regards to players shouting out things such as my ball and leave it etc? I had a game today where the keeper a few times would say "leave it keepers ball" and he said "leave it Chris ball"which is his name. Is that allowed or not. The...

Great advice DRAHC... Unfortunately my assessor was not present last night due to illness in his family. The thing is this is my 5th or 6th game in a row that has gone really well and I wish I had been assessed but I know when I get assessed which will be in the next few weeks things wont go...

I have my first assessment on Friday night in a local mens league game. I'm a bit nervous but don't know why :(, I think its cos I don't know what to expect really so just a bit worried as to what to expect. Is there anything I have to do before I get to the ground? Do I tell the teams I am...

I just wanted to find out if anyone has ever had this issue... I had an incident tonight in a mens game whereby a short player went for a header low down but not that low and the opposing player came in foot up and caught him in the face and obviously the player got injured, I awarded a penalty...

I had a mens game tonight which was 615pm kick off with no floodlights as it was a council pitch however I was worried that we would not get the full 90 minutes in due to the light so I suggested to the captains that we play 40 minutes a half instead, they were happy with that and the game was...

I find the majority of the time I get average 85 out of 100 but when a team has lost my mark drops significantly cos the manager is annoyed with the situation. that really annoys me...

It deserved a caution either way for not moving away from the free kick

The reason I gave a yellow for the first one is that he was already on a yellow so it made my job alot easier to just send him off for a second yellow hence the reason I had to give a yellow card to the second player cos it was an identical challenge so thats why I gave a yellow card. Thanks...

I had an U18 game today and it was a bit feisty to say the least but both managers gave me 90 out of 100 and said I handled the game well but at the end of the game I didn't enjoy it and thought I could have handled the situation a little better but I will explain what happened. Whites number 5...

I just wanted to find out about what happens if a throw in is taken and the ball does not come onto the pitch. Is it retaken by the same team?

The thing with these exams is most of the time you have 3 answers either a b or c. 1 is clearly wrong and the other 2 are very similar that's what makes the test so hard.

I went to my in service workshop for promotion today and thoroughly enjoyed it, also a bonus to pass the laws of the game exam (I hate exams). You pick up so much from practices we do and also from other referees so its really good anyway. I am going to be assessed very soon and not really...

Thanks to everyone for the advice. I had my first Sunday league mens game this morning and was expecting it to be worst than my first game yesterday but today was absolutely awesome, both captains helped me as they shut the players up over my decisions and just let me get on with it. I do...

I had my first mens game today which was not a great division which is understandable considering I only qualified in September so am a level 7 referee. I have been doing alot of youth football refereeing from U7s to U18s since I qualified and have been really enjoying my refereeing but today...

I know what you mean @haywain...I did 2 games yesterday one in the afternoon and one in the morning...I did not enjoy them because of certain decisions I gave. I felt really let down because I did not man up as such and do the right thing, its probably the first time since September of being...

I see what you mean, I know I should have really...Hindsight is a wonderful thing sometimes

The beeping is not really that loud, I also know when the last few minutes are anyway but its nice to have a the beep option. I think if I had blown as I had given DFK I would have created more trouble for myself as Reds were attacking for an equaliser but unfortunately I made it worse by...

Thanks for the reply, they didn't square off or swear at each other when they came back on so I thought I did well to diffuse the situation but I felt a bit let down for not being a bit more harsh when it first happened...

I had an U18s game this morning which was very scrappy and very boring, I had a player from the white team and a player from the blue team who were not happy with each other, they squared up and swore at each other, In my head I was ready to send them off at any minute but I said to them calm...