Justylove
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Its not really a matter for simply the clubs and community. Its more simple than that. Its for YOU, as referee, its YOUR pitch during your game, you call the shots and YOU are responsible for what goes on during your visit You decide if the colours clash, you decide if the park is playable, you are responsible for volume, tone and nature of what is going on.
If Mrs Brown complains to the facility, they simply would ask the league as to who the referee was that allowed the offensiveness to continue and you would be answering to your association as to why you allowed it.
I thought this thread might have died a death....
There are 3 options:
1) You deem it is an offence and punish with the correct sanction in this case Red Card for OFFINABUS (correct in law)
2) You deem it is not an offence and take no sanction (correct in law)
3) You deem it is an offence and punish with an alternate sanction such as a warning or a yellow card (incorrect in law)
And if the answer that you gave was:
"There were 3 occasions within the match where different players missed golden opportunities to score and loudly said f*** after doing so. Based on the circumstances, I didn't deem any of the occasions to be Offensive, Insulting or Abusive, so therefore did not dismiss the players in question"
As I didn't deem it offensive i'm correct in Law by not sanctioning.
Fundamentally, unless there is a definitive list published of what words should be considered offensive AND guidelines on at what volume they need to be spoken in order to constitute being offensive, it comes down to interpretation by the referee on the day based on a whole number of different elements. When you leave that level of interpretation down to individual referees you are going to obviously get a massive deviation of results.