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This is now rather hypothetical. The OP GK did not dive headlong into another player. His movement was across the path of the striker and not towards him. If anything, the striker has run into the GK. For me, if the GK is doing something they would be expected to do, we should be cautious...

Trips are only offences if careless, of course. And it's different because he's not tapping past, he is shooting. The GK is making a save. They are conceptually distinct. It's readily accepted that sometimes saves are not successful. It's also readily accepted, I would suggest, that if an...

Then what is the offence?

Why do you say it is careless? What has the goalkeeper been careless as to?

It's not mistimed. Nor is it careless The striker is the one who has run into the keeper. Players are entitled to their position

I dispute that he gets taken late. His forward momentum takes him over the GK who is diving to make a save. The GK does not lunge or jump at him

It's an attempted save where the striker runs over the goalkeeper.

Yeh, flag and secret squirrel signal for caution

Doesn't make the offence at 21.11 any more red...

I was AR on a match recently where I flagged because a player near me coming in to challenge for a high ball barked like a dog so loudly the opponent under the ball took his eyes off and turned around.

But you're still applying objective criteria and using the reaction if the player as evidence of the degree of offinabus. I take it @RyantheRef is urging caution against allowing emotions affect decisions because the decision could be less affected by the temperature of the match and more by...

😆 Must be legal tender - I will confiscate all ha'pennies used by referees in my association

'Ref, that was f.ck..ng ****' remains yellow for me. It is disagreement with a decision with f... as punctuation. 'ref, YOU are ****' is more likely red as it is an insult and abusive.

I got 'you're a moron' once and dismissed for it. It was in the last 10 minutes or so, it was loud, and it came immediately after I'd second yellowed a teammate for screaming at my young assistant. I felt very little guilt.

Looks like he gave a DFK to me. Further, "the referee has brought this on himself - he took so long to look at this and make his decision". He took less than a minute! Always looking to find fault with the referee to excuse the players

I thought that to, but on closer inspection, not sure the attacker was that close - seemed just to be lurking for the GK to do something stupid

I repeat. Crazy.

Keep in mind that this is pretty rare. If the thrower is standing on the touchline, the ball will almost always enter play

It fascinates me that there are no reports for send offs or that, if additional details are sent through, no one reads them. How does the FA assess the seriousness of the sending off offence? There's a big difference, for instance, between SFP with no injury and SFP which causes a compound...

Not if your report says 'i walked over to caution him for dissent. He then said xxx.@$@$& $_$. I decided that this was offinabus and dismissed the blighter. I did not show the previous yellow card as I was concerned it would cause confusion'