dogso

Some notes I took from the DOGSO/SPA clinic I went to last night. Found it helpful so maybe other will too. DOGSO & SPA are related to creating opportunity. They both do the opposite: take away opportunity. DOGSO & SPA are unrelated to careless, reckless or excessive force in a tackle. They are...

Below is a bad drawing of the situation. Red mark is where the tackle took place. And green mark is where the second to last man was. Rest of the opposition was on the other half of the pitch. This situation happened last Saturday. For me I judged it as a foul and applied a DFK. However if...

I know I’ve posted a few times on here for advice, I appreciate it a lot as I want to really get somewhere in referring. I did a u14’s game the other day. Division 3. Home team are 1st, won every game. Away team are mid table. I know I didn’t have the best game as I was asked to referee it about...

I had 2 games today- one u14’s and one u15’s (I play u16’s myself) the first one was the ‘worst’. 2 red cards and 3 yellows (including the second yellow card- one was straight red, one was second yellow- both for the same team) The first red card was a denial of an obvious goal scoring...

Have a very quick question regarding the below : Does the part in bold mean that if a player commits a DOGSO tackle and the other team decide to take a quick free kick that leads to a clear goal scoring opportunity, then the DOGSO is just a caution and not a sending off?

Was passed this video link tonight from an FA email. ~15minute video from PGMO, quite interesting, and looks to be a fantastic resource. https://www.dropbox.com/s/nriahqxz75vindi/PGMO Conference 2016 Workshop - DOGSO.mp4?dl=0