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Yet another of those interesting match incidents I witnessed for your deliberations. A player had his progress slightly impeded when he bumped into the Referee who was in the same space as an incoming pass which caused the player to mis-control it. He remonstrated with the referee, who allowed...

Yet another of my incidents witnessed at a game for your deliberation. During a stoppage in play in the second half, the Assistant on the far side drew the Referee's attention to the fact that a Corner Flagpost on the furtherst diagonal from him was not in place. It turned out that it had been...

Another one of my observations at a Non-League game I attended recently. A forward was in a marginal (a foot as opposed to, say, 2 yards) offside position (a) some 10 yards inside his opponent’s half when a long pass was played into the space in front of him. The official Assistant did not...

As part of a match report for a game I attended on Saturday, I wrote the following, on another site: "There should have been an equaliser when a Longwell defender was adjudged to have handled a goal-bound effort on the line by the post. Despite protests directed at the Assistant on that side, a...

As a spectator at non-league games, I am usually annoyed at instances of injuries where: 1. The referee and or players call for the player in possession to kick the ball out of play so that an injured player can be attended to and 2. When the physio/medical person has been called on to the field...

At a game I attended on Saturday a forward pass caused the Assistant to raise his flag for offside and a defender seeing it, and in his own Penalty Area, caught the ball in his hands in anticipation of a decision but before the Referee whistled for the infringement. The opposition shouted for a...