The father used to call it proper football, they way football should be played.
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As an auld stock used to remind me when I used to run and gun “Football is a simple game”
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I think this is starting to change sadly, definitely at intercounty level. Charlatan cunts introducing negative tactics. Disappointing to see.
That’s a super goal.
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Did she not foul the ball twice there?
There is no joy in your heart 
Don’t think so?
A fine goal, but calling it a muggsy is patronising
A quick Google and I see moving the ball between hands is legal in women’s football
A fine goal so.
There’s a few differences between the ladies and the man in the rules. Sometimes you blur the two sets of rules or there’d be a free every twenty seconds. The tackling in particular has a completely different set of rules, not that any of the players or management seem to realise.
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What’s the tackle rule
You aren’t supposed to have one. But like all codes of the gaa, there’s a grey area around the tackle now too
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Can’t play at the ball unless the player in possession is actually playing it herself, i.e soloing, handpassing or kicking, so as long as the ball is held in the hands or into the body, the defender can’t play at it (I presume it’s a slightly outdated fairer sex thing, or, without being rude, because of boobs. It doesn’t stop any of them anyway, so it’s hard to referee. No two person tackles (again hard to referee), and no shoulder allowed.
If you blew for the first two there would be no game at all.
I think a lot of the teams are coached either with the men, or by men, or by women who have played with the mens game as the example. The speed fitness and skill levels are no different really at the level I referee, nor is the controlled aggression. You end up just trying to be fair, but refereeing in grey. It’s all a bit stressful, as you think all the time “well that’s a free, but I let the other one go, but this was worse etc etc” whilst your getting shouted at 
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Ref does himself not favours here whatsoever
It’s a hard one though. If time is up, time is up.
I’ve occasionally told a player it’s the last kick if it’s a free, and has to go straight over.
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I blew up in an under 9 blitz match once before a ball went over the bar. Took a bit of abuse from sideline that only emboldened me further.
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It isn’t that difficult to just blow it up at the next break in play
Looks like Justin Heffernan reffing?
What’s next? Make the ball less of a sphere and more of an egg shape ?
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But then you’re bending the rules to favour one team.