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I don’t need them to advise when the balls in play 👍😂 But yes, ball out of play and I’ll mess up offsides. All the leagues in the two counties I referee support this and 14 year old newly qualified referees are encouraged to do this, as part of their 5 matches are for the matches to have offsides.

Don’t give CAR offsides, they’re not qualified and the amount of CAR who are not cheats are less than those who do cheat. Yes it’s extremely difficult to do it yourself, but it’s also making your game difficult to manage by giving offside offence decisions to biased personnel.

I’ve just revisited this now and totally ignore the parents and spectators mostly and if it goes over the acceptable threshold, I get the home coach to deal with it (with the away coach support if it’s an away parent). I did notice when getting involved with them it would then turn into heated...

Some good advice here - I suspected that there were more effective ways of handling it hence the question. I take onboard that it’s low level abuse, but I will add that as referees just “accept it” as the norm - it’s never going to get better and we will be loosing the younger referees or the...

Evening, I’ve a question but first a little bit of context. I first passed my referees course in 2001 a few years after leaving the Army (9 years service) and got thrown into open age, I refereed for one or two seasons and was fairly active in the local referees association. I’m now 49 years...