Having very recently done a referee course, I can tell you that there are 2 things that the FA encourage a ref to stop a game for immediately. One is a player bleeding. He has to leave the field straight away and can't come back until he's stopped bleeding and all bloody clothing changed. THE OTHER IS HEAD INJURIES! When a player goes down injured, the ref needs to decide within a second or 2 whether it's a serious injury or not. Of course, a ref is not a trained doctor or paramedic so he has to use his experience and judgement. That's all very well for some if not most injuries. In the case of a head injury however, the advice is to stop the game straight away and get the physio on. In this case, there was not 1 but 2 players who went down with obvious head injuries and he allowed the game to continue. In my opinion he's failed in his duty of care to those players, as the physio is not allowed on the pitch until he waves them on. This would perhaps be excusable for a ref if this was a new rule open to interpretation. It isn't. Furthermore, as Parrot pointed out, the same ref was guilty of the same thing a couple of seasons back against Oldham at Valley Parade. So that's 2 instances involving us...does this guy not get feedback when he's gone wrong? Was he given feedback? Even worse...if he's doing this for us, is he doing it everywhere else too? Probably. This ref needs coaching on the correct protocol for the safety of the players sake. I sincerely hope this is followed up to ensure it doesn't happen again.