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Sorry yes, aware of the signal, but we've been advised not to use said signal at my level. That was what I meant. Also, if I did use the signal I'm pretty sure players would look at me as if to say 'what the bloody hell is he doing?'

I agree. No real defence to have not used it, but I've never used it. I always tell my captains to stop players surrounding me at kick off, and I will tell them to get their players away etc and will caution if surrounded and report etc, but it's just never occurred to me in a match to implement...

Agree, but then if we know an injury is genuine and are sympathetic with it, we have the ability to manipulate things somewhat and get them on sooner compared with if it isn't genuine. If it's a blanket 'until the next stoppage' then we would lose that.

I think it does largely happen. I don't watch much televised football, but everyone expects it in the games I'm involved in. One of the best law changes of recent years.

Problem with this is that it punishes genuinely injured players.

I think it should just be an offence to convey tactical instructions during a player receiving medical assessment. It won't stop it from happening to kill an opposition teams momentum but it certainly will stop it in some situations. I had a game a couple of months ago where a team were forced...

I knew someone would bring that back up! 😆

I think headbutt is a little strong, but yeah it wasn’t a good look. (I support the other team)

Very true

Not sure this is feasible. If there is a genuine stoppage for a bad injury (maybe 10 mins plus) and then a team want to make a change during the added time which is effectively after only 80 mins of the match and we tell them they can't?

If I started committing petty theft because I knew nothing significant would happen from the police, then someone robbed me, and everyone started robbing, I could hardly turn round and blame the police could I? Also, lets look at it another way, because there's only certain types of time...

I don't disagree that we have the tools to deal with it and it's been a failing in the past, but lets not start feeling sorry for players/clubs. It's them who do it, and Wolves, despite moaning about Arsenal, would more than happily do similar in their next game if defending a goal lead. We can...

Any time an offence is committed without the ball in play, it can not affect the restart, regardless of what that offence is. The only slight difference to this would be obviously an incorrectly taken throw in, but that isn't an offence as such.

I think he meant 'I see' as in 'I envisage, if we changed to a 60 minute timed game with time only running with ball in play', not that he actually sees it currently 😇

I've only seen the shove by Jesus and wasn't watching the game so don't have a lot of context, but looked like UB C1 AA ./ BE to me. I think to give any more you reward the play acting of Mosquera(?) who goes down holding his face despite apparently zero contact to the head/face.

Very inspiring story behind him too if you've ever heard him speak about his foster parents and how he got in to refereeing!

I had one last year on a step 4 game where a local referee inspected in the morning (10am) and he told me it was just about playable at the current moment, but that he knew the pitch very well and with pretty much any more rain it would be totally unplayable very quickly. It was forecast to...

I don't think that's a supporting arm at all tbh. I don't think that arm is out to break the players fall, I think it's out as a consequence of him flinging himself in front of it, but it's 100% always gonna be handball in European competition.

An excellent compilation of correct decisions to showcase Reubyn's talents 😆 and I say that as someone who actually has a soft spot for Bristol City, and should I ever make it to that level (or more likely, should they ever drop to my level) I would probably have to declare a COI because there...

Even more baffling. An experienced referee too! I was talking about this this morning to a colleague and I did say it's odd that none of the 4 on the game could get it right but equally I acknowledged that it's a hell of a ballsy move to tell a way more experienced referee he's wrong in law...