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It’s designed to stop the situation whereby an assistant flags for a penalty/foul that the ref is looking at and doesn’t think is a foul – the ref’s in charge & all that. It is a proper pain as a ref when your liner starts flagging for stuff that isn’t in their area of credibility (usually from the touchline to the penalty area & an imaginary line up to half way in their half)
At the level I got to every single ref will say don’t flag for any appeal for a penalty unless I look at you and ask. We weren’t mic’d up so in those circumstances it has to be a flag although some just ask you to nod or shake your head so it looks like they’ve given it.
From ref’s I know that run the line in the professional game they say that at that level virtually every ref will tell them that they’re there for throw ins & offsides and nothing else. Some have even had refs shouting down the mic not to give anything for incidents happening right in front of them!!
It’s designed to stop the situation whereby an assistant flags for a penalty/foul that the ref is looking at and doesn’t think is a foul – the ref’s in charge & all that. It is a proper pain as a ref when your liner starts flagging for stuff that isn’t in their area of credibility (usually from the touchline to the penalty area & an imaginary line up to half way in their half)At the level I got to every single ref will say don’t flag for any appeal for a penalty unless I look at you and ask. We weren’t mic’d up so in those circumstances it has to be a flag although some just ask you to nod or shake your head so it looks like they’ve given it.
From ref’s I know that run the line in the professional game they say that at that level virtually every ref will tell them that they’re there for throw ins & offsides and nothing else. Some have even had refs shouting down the mic not to give anything for incidents happening right in front of them!!
Thanks for that. It’s great to get a more objective account. I just know I’m always right, but to hear it from a ref himself does put another useful perspective on how some decisions are made.
I do think the FA should introduce a rule whereby no one except the captain and manager are allowed to communicate with the ref, and only during a game. All this mass goading and hounding is done for only one reason, and it must make the job of the ref even worse. Hassling the officials as they leave the pitch at half time is also rubbish. Fergie only ever did it for one reason and it often worked.
That’s what I reckon anyway.
But thanks TL. An interesting insight.
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