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With a serious injury you should never even consider moving the patient to somewhere dry on a stretcher. Such ignorance will only compound the injury and could make it much worse than it needs to be. Don't allow players to move someone with a serious injury, wait for the medics even if they are...

Lots of very good reasons... Love football Too old to play seriously now Not available every weekend due to visiting elderly parents a long way from home Love football Failed at it as a 17 year old and I don't do failures very well Need to keep fit and active Enjoy being part of the local...

The Football Association insist that all games played in their competitions are refereed by officials wearing all black. Hence the F.A.Cup matches featuring the traditional kit. Surely you The Football Association insists that all matches in their competitions (e.g. F.A.Cup) are refereed by...

What is there to say about undershorts? I know they are supposed to be the same colour as the kit shorts but on the local parks I count myself fortunate if all one team has only one colour of shorts. That being the case I am never going to stop a lad from playing because his shorts don't match...

What pre-match equipment checks do you specifically have in mind?

Watching the F.A.Cup matches last weekend, and the referees wearing the compulsory all black traditional kit, I wondered how many County F.A.'s now allow their referees to wear coloured tops for matches at all levels. And if so is the choice of colours restricted and enforced? Building on that...

A good FA will always support their referees when it comes to such situations. Unfortunately not all FA's are good FA's and I've come across both kinds. Any FA that doesn't support their referees when it is question of one word against another should be held to account. Such actions undermine...

Why's that?

Good man - I welcome all feedback, good, critical or indifferent.

I've been very fortunate in my refereeing career to have been on the pitch at the same time as some of the great people of our time. People like Nelson Mandela, Mickey Mouse, Ken Dodd and Marlon Brando - I've booked them all. Obviously you take the name offered and it is up to the FA to sort...

No plans at present but if ebook sales continue to go up as they are doing I may have to consider it. You can get a free Kindle Readers on the Amazon website for PCs, iPads and Android devices. Thanks for your interest.

All this discussion about the impartiality of referees reminds me of a match when I had two CAR's and one of them was known to me as he was a qualified referee and had lined for me before in a County Cup game. It was because I knew him and because he was a referee that I sent a player off on...

Quite right - well done.

Doesn't come naturally - I'm not a Yorkie, I'm only doing missionary work here. I'm originally a Yellow Belly! Any idea where I come from?

Exactly and logical and how I was taught - at throw-ins the feet are lino's responsibility, everything else is refs - except in West Yorkshire - sorry West Riding - where everything is down to the ref when you have CARs.

That ref looks familiar....

'******* in Black' is the writing of a parks referee who recalls highs and lows of being on the park at the same time as soon of the most weird and crazy 'footballers' ever to cross the white line. Recalling his time refereeing in four different counties and the differences that brings. From...

I'll think about the West Riding thing but I've never lived there - just seems so outdated to me. Back to instructions to referees and the comments that it is down to the referee what he asks the Club linesmen to do. That's all well and good saying that but you have to take into account two...

Thanks for all that feedback - really interesting to hear all the views and current practices and I'm sure that many of us are much wiser now about this. One thing I think that has been a side-effect of this practice is that it doesn't encourage youngsters to run the line which I have often...

I first refereed in Huddersfield in 1996 and found out about this at my first game whilst briefing my two Club linesmen prior to kick-off. They ended up briefing me. Ruling still applies today. I found it particularly unhelpful but players were certainly more tolerant of dubious off-side...