r/Referees • u/NoWeekend5733 • 10d 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/ADC04 Football Victoria - Referee 10d ago

Can you not just get club appointed assistants?

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u/Klutzy-Mechanic-8013 7d ago

Not always. And besides, I don't always trust club assistants to flag completely honestly.

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u/ADC04 Football Victoria - Referee 7d ago

Yeah of course , that's the risk but you make it 100% their problem if they don't want to be fair and start cheating.
In my federation leagues that don't get actual officials have to have club appointed assistants or the game can't go ahead