Managing the players and the game and behaving in a way that helps your match control is really important. A referee that manufactures may be seen as over the top and domineering. A referee that assists players in coming to the right decision will seem reasonable and yet still assertive. if you...
Best to be informal. If working with club assistants I brief them in front of the captains so the captains know what I have asked them to do. I ask them to signal ball in and out of play i.e. throw ins, corners and goal kicks and to indicate the direction if they are sure which way it is. I also...
OMG (always wanted to type that) - talk about complicating a very simple law
Offside simply has two boxes to tick which get ticked at the time the ball is played.
Box 1 - Is the player (who is the subject of our question) in an offisde position at the time the ball is played to him by a team...
Thanks for posting the link Brian. I see now why it's not worth printing. Perhaps we're getting to the stage where we are pretty happy with it all. Changes I would like to see:
1. Law 16 - The Goal Kick under Procedure
The ball must be stationary as per Law 13 free kicks
2. I would like 'moves'...
Just been tutoring on a referee course this weekend and stressing how important it is to know from every type of restart when the ball is 'in play' e.g. from a corner kick it is 'when it is kicked and moves' from a dropped ball it is when the ball touches the ground. From a goal kick it is when...
There are a few more
Climbing
The shirt pull
Diving - I love that - we call it the Gerbil
The elbow
The Eric Bristow - i.e. the issuing of a card with an extended little finger
The hug from behind
The helicopter - at the start to signal change of ends
I agree with the extra red card signal...
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