One of the biggest parts of football refereeing is judging the severity of fouls. Many people, specially spectators, like to think they understand when and why a challenge is worthy of a yellow or a red card. However, not many understand truly why some challenges need a certain type of disciplinary challenge or not.
In this article, we’ll talk about some practical guidelines that can be applied to most challenges and help us better judge and motivate a disciplinary sanction.
THE LAW
As always, the first thing we must do is identify where in the LoTG we can find more information about the Severity of Fouls.
The obvious answer (or at least should be) is Law 12. When talking about the Severity of Fouls, we will always be looking at...