There is a booklet published by SoccerRefereeMentors.com that covers exactly what you are after. Title is "It's Your Call". Written by Tommy...
Happened to me years ago at a tournament when midfield sprinklers came on just at half time. One of the spectators was the groundskeeper for...
Some of us are just resistant to change. The OLD ruling was that the run up to take a penalty kick must be continuous. A change of pace was...
Unless it is Personal, Pervasive and Public, I ignore it, as I will this question :-).
From your description, the white player did not initialize the contact and so should not be peanalized. Green slowed down while being chased and...
This is not correct. The jog upfield is a positive signal that the goal is clean. A flag up is a positive signal that there was a violiation and...
To answer the question, USSF is quite clear that a club line can only call ball out of play. No direction, no fouls, no offside. A badged...
For law changes, I start telling coaches of the future Law change once I learn of the IFAB decisions and continue till after the change takes...
Manditory subsitutions after a caution are, indeed, not allowed in any USSF/FIFA registered league BUT most local referees allow a coach to...
Unless the rules of the competition say otherwise, once subsitutions are allowed, there is no limit beyond the number of available subs. This...
Law 10 is very specific that the tie breaking procedures are up to the rules of the competition but may be selected only from: Away goals rule...
It is in Law 18, paragraph 5c.
If a player is told to fix equipment and does not, that could possibly be considered dissent. We would have to be in the referee's head to know...
The only requirement in the Laws for a team captain is during a "reduce to equate" prior to Kicks from the Mark in a tie-breaking procedure. The...
There IS a distinctive difference in how this Law is to be called now. Many referees, myself included, knew that the Law was instituted to...
