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...
Adding time is sufficient. Just be sure to let both teams know.
The primary prevention is that an opponent can run in and deflect the ball or at least confuse the back-and-forth action by trying to head it...
When someone openly reminds you that he is a referee while questioning a call, you should remind him that he should follow the Referee Code of...
In additon to the last response, about moving the ball from the defender's foot to his head, which IS trickery and needs a caution, it is NOT...
My DDI informed me that the minimum waiting period applied to referee re-registations or upgrades and did not apply to new registrations. In...
The kick should be called back. As to the reference in Law, Law 13 specifically says the free kick is taken from the place where the...
The change in the dimensions of the field for FIFA sanctioned games has been postponed, according to the 2008 memo from USSF.
There is no conflict. An outside agent is ANYTHING or ANYONE who enters the field without referee permission and interfers with play. The only...
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Another approach I have seen when the goal is made by a team trying to come from behind is to run toward the goal so you can prevent any argument...