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Thought the law states that players, including keepers, must wear something different to differentiate themselves from each other.
I appreciate the law says game continues if they cant change colours, but at this level communication is surely better than the local parks..

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Happens a lot. Alternatives probably clashed with the kits, and they can't make the home team change 'keeper change jf they don't want to afaik.

The obligatory prematch "sure you won't be next to each other during the game"
 
I still find this absurd. In our country AFAIK when it comes to national league matches the home team must contact the away team a week in advance to coordinate colours (don't know how it is in England). Albeit I have no clue how much they respect this law and from personal experiences the only times various types of kit clashes that happened were on the regional level i.e. where delegates aren't present.

The important part is though that the 1st point and 2nd of this section of colours are followed to the letter from what I've been told.
 
Kent Ref said:
At EFL level this outcome is ridiculous.

How hard is it for the away team to have a change of top?
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How hard is it for the home team to also have a change of colour?
Its much easier, if mistakes are made, for the home team to obtain a change.
Even if its just the shorts. May look odd but surely one of them wearing, say, black shorts is better than than both wearing entirely yellow.
 
EFL Rules include:

The Away team will, not less than 7 days before the scheduled match, submit to The League, Match
Referee and their opponents the details of the colours of shirts, shorts and socks of all Players. In the
event that The League requires either Club (Away or Home) make amendments to its selection, the
Club will, within 24 hours of receiving the notification of the same, resubmit its selection to The League,
Match Referee and opponent.
Guidance
A breach of this Regulation is designated a strict liability offence as detailed in Regulation 88.
39.8 The colour of the Goalkeeper’s shirt must, in all cases, be clearly distinguishable from the colours of the
shirts worn by the Match Officials and all other Player
 
It isn't ideal, but how often does a keeper go forward for a set piece? One in a hundred games, probably less, and certainly less in league games in February, pretty much unheard of I would say. I've no idea what colour both teams various GK shirts are, but there have been cases in the past that no matter what kit the keepers worse they would have clashed with their own players, the opposition outfield players, opposition keeper or the match officials. When that happens there's a strong argument to say that having the two keepers clashing is the best outcome.
 
RustyRef said:
It isn't ideal, but how often does a keeper go forward for a set piece? One in a hundred games, probably less, and certainly less in league games in February, pretty much unheard of I would say. I've no idea what colour both teams various GK shirts are, but there have been cases in the past that no matter what kit the keepers worse they would have clashed with their own players, the opposition outfield players, opposition keeper or the match officials. When that happens there's a strong argument to say that having the two keepers clashing is the best outcome.
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Fair comment, but here one team was in red/white stripes, the other in off-white with green sleeves, so should have been possible to avoid the clash.
 
So after a little digging...

Sheffield United first keeper kit is the yellow one. Understandable as they're the home side.
Middlesbroughs second keeper kit is also the yellow one. But wait... their second kit. What about their first keeper kit?
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Cant see this clashing with either Sheffield Uniteds gk or outfield strip. Would it clash with the Middlesbrough one?
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Unlikely. But this Middlesbrough kit they were wearing was their third kit!

So why couldnt they have worn what they class (and sell as) their away strip and not their 2nd strip?
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This would never have clashes with either of Sheffield Uniteds kit, the Sheffield United first choice keeper top or their own first choice one.
 
ladbroke8745 said:
So after a little digging...

Sheffield United first keeper kit is the yellow one. Understandable as they're the home side.
Middlesbroughs second keeper kit is also the yellow one. But wait... their second kit. What about their first keeper kit?
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Cant see this clashing with either Sheffield Uniteds gk or outfield strip. Would it clash with the Middlesbrough one?
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Unlikely. But this Middlesbrough kit they were wearing was their third kit!

So why couldnt they have worn what they class (and sell as) their away strip and not their 2nd strip?
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This would never have clashes with either of Sheffield Uniteds kit, the Sheffield United first choice keeper top or their own first choice one.
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None of this has anything to do with the match officials though, it is all agreed before the game between the clubs and EFL. Perhaps the officials asked the 'Boro keeper to change and they hadn't brought their first team kit, after all why would they when the colours have been agreed in advance. At that point they fall back on law clearly saying that both keepers can be in the same colour.

This isn't grass roots where the referee has to look at both kits before kick off, it should be sorted out days in advance. There are also commercial considerations and perhaps they aren't allowed to wear their 1st team keeper shirt with the away outfield kit. I suspect, and may be wrong, that the EFL weren't worried about both keepers being in yellow, as I said before I cannot remember a league game in February where a keeper has gone up for a corner. Cup games yes, league games on the last day of the season yes, but a league game in February where the home team are closer to relegation than they are the promotion places, makes very little sense.
 
RustyRef said:
None of this has anything to do with the match officials though, it is all agreed before the game between the clubs and EFL. Perhaps the officials asked the 'Boro keeper to change and they hadn't brought their first team kit, after all why would they when the colours have been agreed in advance. At that point they fall back on law clearly saying that both keepers can be in the same colour.

This isn't grass roots where the referee has to look at both kits before kick off, it should be sorted out days in advance. There are also commercial considerations and perhaps they aren't allowed to wear their 1st team keeper shirt with the away outfield kit. I suspect, and may be wrong, that the EFL weren't worried about both keepers being in yellow, as I said before I cannot remember a league game in February where a keeper has gone up for a corner. Cup games yes, league games on the last day of the season yes, but a league game in February where the home team are closer to relegation than they are the promotion places, makes very little sense.
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This is my point.
This could have actually been avoided before matchday.
As mentioned earlier by Chas, EFL rules stipulate they have to communicate 7 days in advance.
Both teams have access to what colours each team "could" wear.
So how hard is it for a couple of professional clubs to not communicate and organise.
 
ladbroke8745 said:
This is my point.
This could have actually been avoided before matchday.
As mentioned earlier by Chas, EFL rules stipulate they have to communicate 7 days in advance.
Both teams have access to what colours each team "could" wear.
So how hard is it for a couple of professional clubs to not communicate and organise.
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Shouldn't be hard, but my point is it is nothing to do with the match officials and this is a refereeing forum.

But as I said, I suspect the EFL were perfectly happy with both keepers in yellow.
 
ChasObserverRefDeveloper said:
EFL Rules include:

The Away team will, not less than 7 days before the scheduled match, submit to The League, Match
Referee and their opponents the details of the colours of shirts, shorts and socks of all Players. In the
event that The League requires either Club (Away or Home) make amendments to its selection, the
Club will, within 24 hours of receiving the notification of the same, resubmit its selection to The League,
Match Referee and opponent.
Guidance
A breach of this Regulation is designated a strict liability offence as detailed in Regulation 88.
39.8 The colour of the Goalkeeper’s shirt must, in all cases, be clearly distinguishable from the colours of the
shirts worn by the Match Officials and all other Player
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I’m intrigued as to how they are meant to submit this information to the match referee 7 days in advance when, for games on Saturdays, the referee is only officially announced 5 days prior
 
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