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Scenario Two players (Blue and Red) are squaring up to one another in Blues defensive side of the field, lets say near the corner flag The ball is still in play and Blue has possession of the ball near the opposing corner flag towards the Red teams goal area. Red player that is still in the...

Player goes down and I give him around 20 seconds to see if he can continue, I judge that he needs treatment so I wave the coach/physio on to attend to him. Coach refuses to come on, I assume hes misheard me so I repeat my instruction that I need him to attend to the player. In the meantime a...

After a full season of being in the middle, I ran the line on a game yesterday that had a decent clip and speed to it, above my usual fare anyway. Ref in the middle (rightly) caught sight of me watching the ball a number of times and told me over comms to focus on the line. What are the tricks...

Something Ive been wondering about lately Is there a rule that stipulates that the top referees in the game, have to work in their country of nationality/citizenship? With the rights of players to move around freely expanding so much in the last 20 years , I can't see how this hasn't happened...

Two players come together on touchline, its White throw. White player goes to take the throw. Blue player holds onto leg of white. (Foul play? drop ball restart?) White player then lifts and moves his trailing leg backwards into body of blue player (Violent conduct?) White player actually...

Wondering if someone could help with this. For those who may not have seen it, I will try paint the scenario. Defender has, with clear intent, attempted to pass back to his goalkeeper, the ball then travels beyond the goalkeeper and towards the goal line, the goalkeeper uses his hand to...