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    Survey on Referee Abuse

    Just to add, @Gabriel asked me for permission as to whether he could add this and I obviously said yes. No obligation, but let's get as many of us as possible filling it in.
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    MOAS emails

    They will be getting quarantined. At the risk of sounding like a tech geek, the personal email providers like Gmail, Hotmail, etc, have recently implemented the same level of email spam protection that corporate systems have had for years. There are protocols called SPF, DKIM and DMARC, if...
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    When can I apply for promotion?

    You used to be able to on the old promotion scheme that was based over a whole season, some counties allowed accelerated promotion where the season was split into two and you could go 7-6 in the first half and 6-5 in the second. Still kind of the same now, promotions are decided every few...
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    First Game at Academy

    There's no easy answer unfortunately. You can help yourself by giving yourself an angle on your patrol path, if you stay central you won't be able to see all of the attacking players when the pass is played, but if you are wider you have a better chance. There will always be occasions when you...
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    Halifax v Chesterfield

    It isn't that straight forward. I was 4th official at Dartford years ago, that's 30 miles and should be no more than an hour. I left at 4:30, I arrived after the scheduled kick off, as did the entire Barnet team as their coach was caught up behind me.
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    Spectator

    Report it, and make it very clear that he and the club said he wasn't a club official.
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    Team Official Second Caution

    Did they explain why, given that is seemingly at odds with what the law expects?
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    Match Official Mic'd up

    Yeah, I cringed a bit when he said that as that wording was taken out a couple of years ago. It is still regularly applied, but the laws are most definitely not quite explicit in stating that.
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    OFFINABUS towards AR

    That's pretty much what I'm saying. In my example the referee asked me what I thought the sanction should be, and I said caution as I wasn't really offended by it, and I also said something like "it hadn't been that kind of game to merit a red card". The point I was making is the AR shouldn't...
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    OFFINABUS towards AR

    Yes, and he went onto score the winning goal.
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    OFFINABUS towards AR

    The argument was that the language used should have been a mandatory red card. Also didn't help that the club secretary of the away team was on the league committee and also an FA official. We couldn't dispute what they had reported as that would have been committing career suicide, so we had...
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    Dropout rates

    Many years ago I was on the line and advised the referee of an act of VC that she had missed, and she sent the offender off. As he walked past me he said "she is going in the boot of my car after the game and you will be joining her". We reported it and he was charged with threatening...
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    Match Official Mic'd up

    Quite the opposite, the panel is made up of at most one PGMOL representative, the other members are all ex-managers or ex-players. They were split on whether it was a foul, but all agreed it was not a clear and obvious error. As I've said before, absolutely no issues in people thinking it...
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    OFFINABUS towards AR

    You shouldn't be telling the referee what the outcome should be, just what the words used were. Going back many years but in a contrib game I called the referee over for words shouted at me, I told him exactly what was said and after a discussion he went with yellow which I was happy with. The...
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    Wolves vs Coventry

    What anti-Liverpool bias have I shown, I am just pointing out that you are far from impartial and in trying to make your point have brought up an incident that happened many months ago? And no one posting what I did would be getting a warning as they would have done nothing wrong. For what it...
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    Match Official Mic'd up

    No they are not, that is absolutely not what VAR is there for. VAR is only to correct clear and obvious errors, no re-referee the game because the match officials had a dodgy angle. I only heard this on the radio and can't find anything to substantiate it, but they said that the independent...
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    Halifax v Chesterfield

    Impossible to see from those stills whether the ball is bouncing or running freely. It clearly wasn't in the Dundee vs Rangers game as even the Rangers manager said it wasn't bouncing.
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    Quick freekick

    Yeah, completely agree with that. If they go before I get there that is fine, once I'm there they can only take it when I am ready.
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    WSL/WC referee fees

    Its just pure economics, there isn't enough money in the game to pay for it. Attendances are up yes, but if you look at Arsenal who have the biggest crowds, ticket prices for top category games are between £12 and £18, you can even get an executive box with hospitality for £59 per person. A...
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    WSL/WC referee fees

    Despite the increasing attendances this season the money in the women's game is still nowhere near that of the men's. Taking aside the big 3 who regularly play at the main stadiums, average attendances are probably similar to National League clubs. A National League referee gets £180...
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