yellow card

Hi all, Quick one from me, I’ve not had it happen yet but want to preempt if for when it eventually does. Scenario… A player has picked up a yellow card (doesn’t matter what for…) and he then commits a C2 offence of dissent. What is the approach here to issuing a second yellow? Do you...

New ref here. Had my first game recently. Open age league match, and I gave my first ever yellow card for a reckless challenge. Player apologised, and I had no significant incidents for the rest of the match. I was very confident it was RP, but after the match the manager and a few players...

I was watching an isthmian game last Saturday and the home dugout were getting a little noisy. Nothing bad. The referee stopped play when the ball was out and walked over and half took his yellow card out of his pocket. He did it and pointed at it. Basically as if to ‘threaten’ them with a...

So I had an u16’s game yesterday, the home team my former team (I left at about u11’s, still go to school with some of them and coach one of the coaches sons at u14’s for a different club). It was a league cup plate match (I think, if that makes sense?) and I had a few incidents. The main one...

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...

Hi, I am going to be refereeing in youth football next season, probably varying from under 9s to under 16s. I was wondering about how others use cards in these types of games. For example an under 10 player shouts dissent at me. Do I caution him like I would if they were older or do I speak to a...

Had a game today which was a heated affair but only one card. A yellow for USB AA. However, in the first ten minutes, I gave the home team a free kick for a late challenge. The player who committed the foul then proceeded to kick the ball away. The home player responded by calling him a...

I’m a fairly new referee and was wondering about carding youth players. As a player, I very rarely saw yellow cards (up to around u17/18) and only saw one red which was after a fight. My first (and only so far, as I’ve only done about 5 games) booking came at an u15 friendly for dissent and I...

I'll begin by saying that I know we got it right, but things could have gone quite wrong. That's why I seek a bit of advice. Adults game, good regional division. The ARs are good friends and very good referees I can rely on, and we use communicators. It's 0-0 and just 7 minutes left on the...