Padfoot
The Persecuted One
Apparently the player i dismissed recently is submitting a claim for wrongful dismissal. Never had that before!
There is now no mandatory requirement for video evidence to support the claim (not sure that was a good idea whoever decided to remove it) but will be judged on any evidence submitted.
According to the Discipline Manager, the player is claiming he was trying to take a quick free kick rather than deliberately leathering the ball at his opponent....yeah right.
I was contacted to see if, having thought about it, i might have made a mistake.
This proved to be a really difficult question to answer.......we are all human (yes, even me) and we are all susceptibile to making mistakes. So the question "could you have got it wrong" is not a straightforward one to answer.
Could i have got it wrong? Of course i could, just like any other decision i made in that match. The potential to get a decision wrong is ever present.
Did i get it wrong? No, i don't believe that i did. Given the exact same set of circumstances i would make the exact same decision.
Can't really explain it...it was one of those occasions where it just screamed "red card"....from body language, the look on the players face, the general bad temper in the game.......not one thing in isolation, but a whole gamut of things combining to leave me in no doubt as to what i saw.
Anyone else had anything similar?
There is now no mandatory requirement for video evidence to support the claim (not sure that was a good idea whoever decided to remove it) but will be judged on any evidence submitted.
According to the Discipline Manager, the player is claiming he was trying to take a quick free kick rather than deliberately leathering the ball at his opponent....yeah right.
I was contacted to see if, having thought about it, i might have made a mistake.
This proved to be a really difficult question to answer.......we are all human (yes, even me) and we are all susceptibile to making mistakes. So the question "could you have got it wrong" is not a straightforward one to answer.
Could i have got it wrong? Of course i could, just like any other decision i made in that match. The potential to get a decision wrong is ever present.
Did i get it wrong? No, i don't believe that i did. Given the exact same set of circumstances i would make the exact same decision.
Can't really explain it...it was one of those occasions where it just screamed "red card"....from body language, the look on the players face, the general bad temper in the game.......not one thing in isolation, but a whole gamut of things combining to leave me in no doubt as to what i saw.
Anyone else had anything similar?