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Character, Attitude and Control 4/24/2021Jonathan of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Unites States asks...Would like your opinions on my "unorthodox" refereeing style. When I center referee a game, I tend to talk quite a bit during a match. Any challenges where a player goes down but no foul I'll call out things like "not a foul", "fair shoulder", "strai...
Read The Full Q & A Character, Attitude and Control 3/25/2021gary of portland, Oregon Unites States asks...Question regarding game management: Why should you ever "let the players play" if it's not really possible to lose control of a match by calling it too tightly, only if you call it too loosely?
In my years as a referee, the matches I have ...
Read The Full Q & A Character, Attitude and Control 11/5/2020Russell of Sydney, Australia asks...Grabbing and holding - as Divyesh of Downside (I grew up not too far from there) mentions happens a lot at set pieces.
And Ref MCHUGH mentioned that they are called as fouls elsewhere (i.e. in general play) on the pitch - and I think why t...
Read The Full Q & A Other 10/17/2019Barry Stewart of Chilliwack, BC Canada asks...Ref McHugh says: 'If the explanation was not acceptable I would request not to work with the CR ever again. A referee would soon run out of assistants based on this approach.'
I have seen very close to the referee described by the original p...
Read The Full Q & A Mechanics 2/16/2019Russell of Sydney, Australia asks...I agree the wait and see approach is very important, however, I worry that Football is going down the path of our local Rugby League, where rarely a 'try' is awarded without going to check with their equiv of VAR.
While more correct outcomes...
Read The Full Q & A Character, Attitude and Control 2/13/2019jake of las vegas, nv usa asks...what is the best way to help a referee who just... isn't very good? there is a referee in a local league who does a lot of AR matches and doesn't really do CR, i guess due to nerves. the league wants to get her experience so the past few weekends the...
Read The Full Q & A Character, Attitude and Control 1/29/2019Bob Smith of Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire UK asks...Hello
In a game this week there was an incident that created some debate on the pitch.
Two midfielders were challenging for the ball. One midfielder got ahead of the other and the second midfielder started to use his hand to pull on...
Read The Full Q & A Character, Attitude and Control 1/13/2019Tyrone of New York city , New york United States asks...What would the restart of play be for a referee changing his decision after talking to AR. Say the referee awards the attacking team a penalty for challenge in the box but the AR had a better view and told the referee that it was a clean challenge. ...
Read The Full Q & A Character, Attitude and Control 12/12/2018Ismael of Fallbroom, California U.S. asks...Can I give a player a yellow card if the keep telling me what to mark and what I marked wrong?...
Read The Full Q & A Character, Attitude and Control 11/29/2018Russell of Sydney, Australia asks...A follow up to the earlier question (32897).
I'm of the same thinking. There is enough in it to make you think about it, however, probably not enough to make you stop play or not allow advantage.
As Ref Dawson mentions, there probab...
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