To me, this is DOGSO and an obvious red card. That's how we would handle it in Belgium - no VAR needed.
EDIT: Let's not forget about the fact that there's no 'right' or 'only' solution to these types of situations. There are many possibilities.
This is clearly an incident which can be taken care of in many ways. I don't think there is just 'one' possible solution to it. As I'm quite a high-level referee in my country, I would not handle this situation with a red card. I do believe others might.
I never said you only have to caution when it's harmful. I was talking about Memphis' push, which at that moment was unharmful and does not deserve a red card at all. People are saying this is a straight red, but I would not see why. Nowhere in the LOTG does it state that this particular...
Not at all. A referee always has to take note of the (possible) harmfulness. You wouldn't give out a yellow card for an unharmful tackle, so why would you for an unharmful push?
As it was a quite gentle push, unharmful for the referee, I doubt a red card would be the perfect fit in this situation. If it were a harder push (eg. ref hitting the ground hard), straight red without doubt. Conclusion: yellow in this situation.
Reminds me of an incident I had last season with two players in a friendly game. Player tackles from behind, obvious yellow card.. They start a row and I caution both of them. Player that got tackled starts clapping and says: "Good job ref, suck his dick even harder." Gave him a second one right...
That's not an unpopular opinion, but a wise one. Some situations are very difficult to handle, even when trying to follow the LOTG. If an observer was watching and you made the player take the penalty, even with blood on his knee (if you haven't noticed it, or didn't want to), he will never give...
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