What you said right here tells all you need to say. I would like to make a suggestion, however. Consider keeping your USSF license alive without...
Several people have pointed out that the games must be full-length matches to count toward game total. I have been told by our SRA and have seen...
I agree. Unfortunately they used the term "Serious Foul Play", which a specific sending-off misconduct phrase. They need to call it "Unwarranted...
It turns out that Poll wrote down the name of the opponent with the same uniform number on the first foul. According to his card, the misconduct...
Everyone knows that it would be best to have a single set of Laws. However, being educators, the folks at NFHS and NCAA are sure that THEIR rules...
Great suggestions. In fact, take the ref training course NOW. Refuse to take the test if you don't want a license, but you will be amazed how much...
At the younger ages, kids think they are being clever by switching sides. But it takes so long to do that the other team almost always adjusts...
In our state Premier youth league, a club with this kind of behavior would be expelled from the league. Why would UEFA not simply pull the club's...
RF is right that most leagues count a game after the second half starts. However, in my experience that applies to USYSA-advised youth games....
Because I would have already inspected both ends for best surface before beginning the kicks from the mark, I would not have moved. "You are...
Aside from the appearance of sloppiness, carelessness in using the correct hand really can be a practical problem for the referee. If my AR...
Except on the highest-level select squads, the goalkeeper is often the least athletic player on the team. Or he/she may be a temporarily-assigned...
I'm going to be terrible at coming up with names, but I can recognize my favorite three whenever they are doing EPL which I get to watch on Fox...
And we even have the highest-level example of Fabien Bartez' dismissal in the UEFA Cup pool play. Exactly the situation described. Do you...
I have an all black windbreaker/rain jacket that folds up into its own pouch, and a no-name pair of all black wind pants. They are hardly ever...
This summer, I was working a tournament on one of those 4-refs-rotate deals. I was doing a line with a young, very good ref in the middle. I...
[/ANAL MODE ON] There is offside and not offside; there is no passive offside. [/ANAL MODE OFF] In all cases regarding all decisions, the...
Jim Allen's answers to these questions carry the force of USSF interpretation. In general, for the purposes of the pass back rule, a kick is a...
FIFA's Fair Play I would have thought that it is simply USB for bringing the game into disrepute. You are not going to say' "I'll play it to...