Quote Originally Posted by Andy_Faber View Post
I bow to your detective work and if the visuals are as you say, I agree. But in his defence, third division football deserves third division officiating
I would say Burton and District League Division 5 deserves refs who understand the rules and apply them correctly. I did the KNVB refs course over here. Passed the written exam with 95%. Then there was a series of evening games in which all the candidate refs played and we all got to ref 15 minutes or so. We were then let loose but had a KNVB adjudicator at your first 3 games. Any errors were extensively covered at HT and FT. If you got a bad mark from a side you were again given an adjudicator for a game. There's no excuse for errors, especially on the big calls. For instance, for their penalty he was 4, maybe 5, yards away with a clear view. How he missed that the challenge was outside the box is a mystery.