"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink." I'm having a hard time getting concepts from drills and restricted situations to...
I had a new one yesterday. During a match (U14G competitive mid-level FWIW), in the second half, the referee held up play, walked over to my...
This is something I've wondered about for a while, and is apropos of the "Players who don't develop" thread. We've all seen a few "ugly...
I am doing the center of a couple of Presidents Cup quarterfinals this weekend, and will have fourth officials assigned. I've only been a 4th a...
I generally don't have to show a lot of cards, but had a couple games last night (indoor) get away from me that I'm struggling to see where they...
From the most recent You are the Ref over at the Guardian: "3. Two minutes before the break the home keeper is stunned in a collision, and is...
The BigSoccer forum pages load piecemeal, and apparently Mozilla and Firefox don't deal well with the page layout. First the header loads, but...
A journalist sticks up for the officials.... The technological advance that would send football backwards
In the 4/28 USA v MEX game, there was a confusing sequence of events in the second half that was unfortunately not explained in the TV broadcasts....
The good folks on socref-l didn't have an authoritative answer for me, so I thought I'd try out a scenario on you guys (apologies for those of you...
From the Rocky Mountain News (Denver), Dec. 13 2003. If soccer were a stock and sports business columnist Dean Bonham were a broker, he'd have a...
Since this is Colorado/Denver-area specific, I thought I'd post here; some local folks might have the scoop... soccertv.com, and some posters...