callmemyref
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What if a team makes many fouls, can I give a YC to the one player of that team who made the first foul?
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I'd say it more strongly--never give a card for PI without having given a clear and visible warning. (An effective way to do it is to point at the locations of the various offenses.)I generally do try to give one warning before a card for persistence. Example - I was refereeing a U16 girls match, and the team in white was fouling a specific player of the team in orange. After the second foul against this player, I told the specific player (and loudly enough for the team to hear) that the fouling of this player had to stop.
This is a bit confusing as framed. Others have set out the context for a caution, but it would go to the current foul, not to someone who fouled before.What if a team makes many fouls, can I give a YC to the one player of that team who made the first foul?
I'd say it more strongly--never give a card for PI without having given a clear and visible warning. (An effective way to do it is to point at the locations of the various offenses.)
I'm going to quibble slightly on use of PI, per se. Law 12 says "a player is cautioned if guilty of . . . persistent offenses...)
Where the team is regularly fouling a particular player, the player you finally caution has not actually done that--the player has only offended once. I believe the caution is more properly classified as USB in this "team" context. Not a major distinction, of course, as it is simply a caution either way.
This is a bit confusing as framed. Others have set out the context for a caution, but it would go to the current foul, not to someone who fouled before.
The referee must also recognize when a single opponent has become the target of fouls by multiple players. As above, upon recognizing the pattern, the referee should clearly indicate that the pattern has been observed and that further fouls against this opponent must cease. If another player commits a foul against the targeted opponent, that player must be cautioned but, in this case, the misconduct should be reported as unsporting behavior, as must any subsequent caution of any further foul against that same targeted opponent. Eventually, the team will get the message.
I like the last line.I was never a big fan of the now-discontinued USSF "Advice to Referees" document but it did get some things right.
I think their section on "team" PI was one example where they pretty much nailed it.
It went as follows: