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Oh I have done previously, with an ''assessor" watching the game Two players squaring up 25 yards from centre, ball in centre circle progressing ahead of them, I stopped play and sorted them out, then restarted with a drop ball to the team last in possession. I was told it was a serious error...

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...

No the corner is for the opposition, its their advantage so play on. I get the 'laces' thing at senior grassroots all the time, but its a can of worms if you allow it to go on, you'll have multiple players on the winning team doing their laces in the 96th minute.

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...

Howard Web: Dear Fulham, sorry it was a foul but it shouldnt have been given as a foul. My team over stepped the mark by knowing the rules, im working on making it better.

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...

Clear as day, he's stood on his foot, I don't understand how others can excuse that in the context of 'contact game' Danny Murphy on Match of the Day was apoplectic, absolute tool.

Sorry my original post was a mess due to technical demons Yes but advantage is inseparable from this scenario, hence my example about the ball being passed backwards or sideways, the ref wouldn't give a freekick in that instance despite the criteria being met within the LOTG

OK but the wall in question to the left does not or can not influence the attempt on goal, in fact Guehi moves himself 1m away from the wall or defending players (to the right in pic below) that has more influence on stopping the ball moving towards the goal This consideration does matter...

What criteria is used to decide what the 'main wall' is?

Which wall? He was 1m away from the wall that the ball travelled closer to, the one in question had no impact on the path of the ball Hypothetically a defending team could use 9 players to set up three 3 man walls across the the penalty area, covering enough surface area to ensure that any...

That's because the descriptor on TV said 'checking for offside', which im confident was the original idea For VAR to intervene, change its mind without any factual metric or measurement available (unlike offside) is just pure stupidity and annoyance.

On my count its about 7 and 3/4, close but if I felt hes in the motion of releasing the ball as the 8 seconds hit, id carry on. In my countdown I hold the shout for 1 so much ('oneeeee') that there are no excuses from the keeper if he goes past that, im giving them closer to 9.5 seconds

I think his mechanical technique has duped the official into thinking his release was not correct.

Could MO have also dismissed Hogg for SFP?

I think the ref did well to let calm heads prevail. Getting a bad mark from an assessor, or causing a public safety risk?

I don't think he intentionally batted the assistants flag away, he was having a strop and his wailing arms hit it accidentally If only the AR had cards though..

Good lord if the atmosphere wasn't toxic enough already, sending off Noble might have genuienly incited a riot

Would he have received a kicking from the assessor for the 'recinded' card?

Yes just watched it again, and corrected myself. Thanks