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Worst enemy is other referees, he's wrong. If ever in doubt, ask your RDO/Observer as they will put you on the right track.

The only issue is absolutely no one seems to be appealing for it. If you sent him off, yes, maybe the pundits will say you're spot on, but it looks like both teams would be a bit mystified about the call? To be honest, if I saw that happen in my games I'd be going for red and then I'd be...

Would you be giving a penalty for the shirt pull?

I'd have taken the video to be honest. It is very rare that you get an opportunity to look back at positioning, body language and facial expressions etc. Regardless of if a call is right/wrong, it's a great learning tool. I had my first recorded game recently and it has been genuinely...

First one I think is spot on tbh. Rugby tackled because they know he's about to get clean through. Second one I thought was spot on from the TV camera; however, the video from the referee's angle, I cannot for the life of me understand why that's been given, that's fairly tame and makes...

My pre instructions are; * 100% important issues; 1. Don't turn away from the FOP, interact with the crowd etc. 2. Don't chase or stop the ball going out of bounds. (Believe it or not, I don't skip this phase anymore. I got assigned two A/R's from a tier above me this season and I thought...

But it's not an offence to be offside? Even when it is an offence it's not really a misconduct issue. Anyway, this isn't a difficult issue to manage, just shout and use the countdown if you think they're taking the mick. Most keepers will boot it before you hit 5 seconds, anyone pushing it...

Ah but are they QUALIFIED to tell you that!? I think not!

I went to specsavers to say my eyes were getting worse, but they said no change. So I guess I'm just crap at seeing.

Trailing eyes are for when you can see a defensive player charging in to block/challenge. Or when a player is pulling/grappling as they're running, because the moment the ball is released is when the frustration retaliation happens, or the defender puts in a cheeky dig. Easier to do this if...

Congrats, enjoy them. I might miss mine as the referee for my semi-final caught covid, so I'm just relying on the COVID testing until the final at this point. Fingers crossed. =/

Second to last picture and that looks like a one arm launch.

Sometimes I'll ask the managers for their views. Sometimes they'll have a very legitimate point that I may have overlooked. A few years back when I started, the two managers asked me to swap the end I picked because of the position of the sun. They both argued that the keepers sightline would...

You know what? If that had happened to my games, I was never going to get that one right. 😭 Thanks both.

Reading the IFAB FAQ and it has fried my fairly delicate brain, so I'm needing some help here. Is the FAQ contradicting itself or am I missing a bit of context; FAQ: When the ball is in play, a player leaves the field without the referee's permission and strikes a spectator. The referee stops...

Congrats, always nice to get in the stadiums :)

I agree with you, but watching that clip back, particularly side-on I'm in agreement with @Redster the striker has gone over the keeper and I wouldn't be calling that as a foul (unless I was in the wrong angle, the front-cam looks a stonewaller obvs). I also agree with what else has been said...

Sounds like you didn't deal with it, so it escalated. Set your tolerance lower. You probably are letting dissent go; It is still backchat. That by itself can be dissent, so use your tools to deal with it. Especially in this particular game because it's run away from you. It seems like your...

In it for himself it seems.

Most probably. :) I'll find out more next season as I'm trying to move from county to national level next season ~ dependent on whether I can do the fitness test. It is very likely to be a completely different process there, assuming I try for promotion again.