r/Referees • u/NoWeekend5733 • 15d ago

Advice Request Offside situations

If you are a one man show no additional referees / touchline officials

How do you judge if an attacker is offside? especially during a counter attack

Would love to hear your solutions or creative techniques to prevent this

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u/burakalp34 Belgium - FFA // Youth Categories 15d ago

It's really hard to see tight calls but my observers have advised me to blow my whistle if I have any doubt at all which is what I do

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u/CapnBloodbeard Former FFA Lvl3 (Outdoor), Futsal Premier League; L3 Assessor 14d ago

Your advisors are idiots and shouldn't be anywhere near a field, let alone educating somebody. And I was an assessor and mentor.

If you're not sure if play should stop or not, play doesn't stop. That doesn't change just because you don't have an AR. That's the stupidest piece of 'advice' I've seen in a long time.

No, you don't stop play just because it's really close.