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RefJef

RefJef

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Not sure I agree with this, and would like the thoughts of the learned minds on this forum:

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As the "disciplinary sanction procedure" (I'm presuming this means giving the yellow card to the player who SPA'd) how can the re-start have been delayed?

Surely if you are issuing a card, you can't allow a quick free kick as you need to issue the card?

Thoughts, as ever, welcome.
 
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The answer is correct. The Q says the R has not started the disciplinary process. This means the offended team can still take a quick restart, which the opponent prevented. Law 5 was changed relatively recently to address exactly this scenario and have the card given at the next stoppage.
 
Thank you. I've had a good rummage around the good book and found that ...

.... along with a discrepancy or two! Law 5 refers you to Law 12.3, but it should be 12.4, which says:

Delaying the restart of play to show a card​

Once the referee has decided to caution or send off a player, play must not be restarted until the sanction has been administered, unless the non-offending team takes a quick free kick, has a clear goal-scoring opportunity and the referee has not started the disciplinary sanction procedure. The sanction is administered at the next stoppage; if the offence was denying the opposing team an obvious goal-scoring opportunity, the player is cautioned; if the offence interfered with or stopped a promising attack, the player is not cautioned. (my bold)
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So for the question to be "totally" correct it should make clear that the kick free kick must lead to a clear goal scoring opportunity?

... and (if my understanding is correct) a DOGSO red would be downgraded to a yellow if the attacking team take a quick free kick?
 
RefJef said:
Thank you. I've had a good rummage around the good book and found that ...

.... along with a discrepancy or two! Law 5 refers you to Law 12.3, but it should be 12.4, which says:


So for the question to be "totally" correct it should make clear that the kick free kick must lead to a clear goal scoring opportunity?

... and (if my understanding is correct) a DOGSO red would be downgraded to a yellow if the attacking team take a quick free kick?
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Think the reality is that because the option of a quick FK should still be available to the attacking team, a defensive player taking action which denies this opportunity is DTR - clear, deliberate and impactful. Trying to predict whether a quick FK might theoretically have led to an OGSO is probably taking crystal ball gazing too far :)
 
I wonder how it would read if the same player who made the tackle then picked up the ball. Eg. does a SPA foul then picks up the ball while discipline is commenced.
 
This is one that make your brain hurt when thinking of it from deductive logic view point.🤔

NoFoulsAllowed said:
I wonder how it would read if the same player who made the tackle then picked up the ball. Eg. does a SPA foul then picks up the ball while discipline is commenced.
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If dissipline has commenced a QFK can not be taken so one caution for original foul only no matter who picks up the ball.

If dissipline has not commenced then it's two cautionable offences in quick succession one for SPA and the next for DTR. While technically this is the correct outcome, in practice, if it is the same player, most of us would have already started the dissiplinary process 'in our head' 😉, take the yellow card out immediately and show it only once for SPA.

Adding another twist for maximum brain hurt, what if the original tackler is already on a yellow?
 
one said:
Adding another twist for maximum brain hurt, what if the original tackler is already on a yellow?
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Hardly a brain puzzler: give them the second yellow, followed by a red. Put any other misconduct in the report.
 
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