youth football

Afternoon all, longtime lurker , and reader of informative posts from everyone, but it seems to me that behaviour in grassroots football is in the toilet. Repeated incidents today at youth level and even mini soccer has really got me wondering what's the point. I am 20 years in as a parent, club...

I'm a 15 yr old ref and got allocated to a top tier title race U15 Girls match this weekend. Due to previous good performances across the age groups my club allocated me this game, and it could not of gone worse. Both teams constantly were complaining about small nudges to the back that had no...

Hi all, I am an U18 Ref and have passed my course about 3 months ago but have reffed for almost 2 years now. I had a situation yesterday where I had a horrendous team and almost abandoned the game. I had to end up sending a report in about this as it was absolutely atrocious, considering it was...

Hi, I am going to be refereeing in youth football next season, probably varying from under 9s to under 16s. I was wondering about how others use cards in these types of games. For example an under 10 player shouts dissent at me. Do I caution him like I would if they were older or do I speak to a...

I’m a fairly new referee and was wondering about carding youth players. As a player, I very rarely saw yellow cards (up to around u17/18) and only saw one red which was after a fight. My first (and only so far, as I’ve only done about 5 games) booking came at an u15 friendly for dissent and I...

Hey, I've only recently joined this forum and was hoping perhaps someone out there could answer something for me about an incident in one of my games recently? To set the scene, it's an u11's game, whites are playing reds and the whites are winning 4-1. Despite rain throughout the week, the...