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Can you Spot a Foul Tackle from the Terraces?

Running the line at a game recently, I succumbed to a distraction that assistant referees are …

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Dick Sawdon Smith Dec 1, 2016

What Players Must Wear

It used to be enough to get the whole team turned out in the same coloured …

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Dick Sawdon Smith Nov 25, 2016 Tagged with Equipment, Law 4, Undergarments
What Players Must Wear

Being Forewarned is not Victimisation

Robert Huth, Leicester City’s 6’4” former German international, has complained that he is being victimised by …

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Dick Sawdon Smith Nov 17, 2016 Tagged with Persistant, Warning

Change to Advantage Law is Great Improvement

  One thing referees have always been told is that they should not play advantage when …

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Dick Sawdon Smith Nov 10, 2016 Tagged with Advantage

Seeing is Believing

Ronald Koeman last season called for a ‘grappling ban’. This was after his then club, Southampton, …

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Dick Sawdon Smith Nov 3, 2016 Tagged with Holding

Injured Players Need Not Always Leave FoP

Some football supporters have queried with me, why this season sometimes injured players are made to …

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Dick Sawdon Smith Oct 27, 2016 Tagged with Injured player, Treatment

Offside Distraction by Another Word

Mostly this season I have written about the changes following the re-write of the Laws of …

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Dick Sawdon Smith Oct 13, 2016 Tagged with Attempt, Interfering, Offside

“Last Man” is not in the Book

  Do you ever get the urge to shout ‘rubbish’ at the radio or television when …

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Dick Sawdon Smith Oct 6, 2016 Tagged with DOGSO, Last Man

Action Against Dissent – About Time Too

  If they didn’t know already, spectators at the Reading /Huddersfield game will now be aware …

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Dick Sawdon Smith Sep 29, 2016 Tagged with Dissent

Why Should Control of Players be Left to Referees?

  It’s widely known I think, that referees in the Premier League and Football League have …

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Dick Sawdon Smith Sep 22, 2016 Tagged with Aggressive Behaviour, Match Control

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