We are paid by each school, or by the state for the tech schools. Some are fast and some are slow. By this time of the season, there might be a check in the mail box as often as a couple times a week. A few schools just adopted this RefPay/Arbiter system. I recently did a middle school game at one of those schools. The game started at 3:45. I checked the web site when I got home and noticed that I was paid at 3:48. That was probably kickoff time. I dunno, but 3 minutes might be a record for fastest pay (not by cash, of course).
There is one D1 college in my area that usually gets money deposited into our RefPay account on the way to the venue. It is usually a 2 hour drive.
I did a two day tournament. I received my check for the weekend before I got my whistle out for the first game. That makes it 24+ hours early payment for the last game.
This doesn't warrant its own thread and there wasn't an obvious place to post it so it's going here: I just finished the annual test 49/50 and the only thing keeping me from 100% was this bugger. Am I being stupid, or is this question ridiculous? If it's outside the penalty area and it EMPHASIZES that point, how is it a penalty kick?
The only thing that makes sense to me is that they messed up the question, but they meant to ask as if it was off the field of play, so the closest part of the field would be the PA.
There is so much irony in this question because a lot of refs have a bad habit of spotting fouls that are just INSIDE the area as being outside.
Just another example of how anyone involved with writing soccer law or test questions has not passed them to an editor with any actual training in the English language... The answer they claim is correct is obviously wrong.
I don't think this has anything to do with poor question writing. This is a very clear question. This looks like nothing more than a transcription error on the key.