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Sorry for the long time absent, but positioning has become the bee in my bonnet recently. As all of you know, knowing the teams helps us predict or anticipate their next moves, and that can give us a couple of extra seconds to get to the other end of the field before the ball does. This brings...

I'll begin by saying that I know we got it right, but things could have gone quite wrong. That's why I seek a bit of advice. Adults game, good regional division. The ARs are good friends and very good referees I can rely on, and we use communicators. It's 0-0 and just 7 minutes left on the...

I have had one of the most bizarre games in my entire career today. Division 1 U12 game, home side wear royal blue (shirt, shorts, and socks), and the away team appear with a dark purple kit (well, the socks were white). I could only realise this some 40 minutes before KO, and dealing with this...

Football's fate for the World Cup and the upcoming season is sealed, yet we don't know what the precise wording of the new laws will be. However, to whet our appetites, we have a couple of things from the IFAB's press release: VAR is to be enshrined into law, to the surprise of no one, and an...

So that's it, folks, I'm a Madrileño football referee! Well, I'm quite passionate about football refereeing, and rumour has it that I can put words together in English -fake news!-, sometimes to the point of boring people to tears... I'm not sure what the English analogue of my level is, but...