You're the ref!

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it's up to the ref as to the 'deliberateness' of the leaving.

if you leave the field of play as part of play ie you were running fast and couldn't stop in time, you can reenter the field as you left it, without the refs permission. if you walk off when the ball is not in play say at a dead ball, it would be deliberate. as such you cannot reenter without the refs permission and if you do and subsequently touch the ball it's an immediate freekick (plus a compulsory yellow for leaving without permission). as i say it's up to the ref.

if a defender is past the goalline and the ball is still in play, he is classed as being on the goal line since he can't leave the field without the refs permission, very important to know for calling offsides. not sure about attackers, but i think it's the same, you are classed as being on  the goal  line. in ferdinands case it wouldn't matter seeing as you can't be offside from a corner, the defender should know he's coming back on and mark him. if i was the ref, i would book him for deliberately leaving the field, but another ref might not.

Hard to argue with what Swiss has said.

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I could probably do a better job than half the crap the FA dish out to officiate in the championship !!

But seriously these guys need to be regulated and audited on their performances and as in most professional bodies all need to be held responsible for their actions !

Erm, the football league make the appointments in the championship.

 

They are regulated and audited, they are assessed in every game .  If I have a criticism of the way refs are "treated" by the powers that be it is the secrecy.  Ive reffed 300+ games, mainly on a sunday just to give everyone an indication of my level. Ive NEVER seen a mark that I have been given.  I could be the worst ref ever [and I am led to believe this every week by the teams I ref] or good enough to ref the fa cup final.  I have no idea.

 

Ive argued in the past [cant be bothered anymore] that getting your marks [both teams mark the ref in sunday football] would allow you to reflect on the game and work out when you had a good game ,by the teams measure and when you were poor.  You know if you've given a contencious penalty in the last minute, maybe your mark is not going to be the best from one team. But there are going to be games where managers score you highly, in defeat, because you thought you did well.

 

Im not sure a league table of refs marks would help anyone.

 

Ive argued elsewhere that the vast majority of refs are trying thier best and often it is a lack of understanding of the laws of the game or thier interpretation that causes issues.

 

One from this morning, cross comes in, obvious foul on the defender, ball headed over the bar.  I gave a goal kick.  I ignored the foul.  Because Im incompetant?  No.  The defending side have more advantage from a goal kick [take it from anywhere that suits in the goal area, can't be offside] than from a direct free kick inches outside the goal area.  Manager and some players assumed I'd not seen the foul, in fact I explained the what and why to the player that was fouled, but you can't explain everything to everyone all the time.

[Donut]

The onesie was actually a secret Thai made performance enhancing nuclear war head and thus was considered dangerous.

 

Because the onesie is all the same colour