A couple of incidents from today which I’d love to hear your thoughts on.
The first incident happened from a corner. The ball gets sent in to the penalty area and the attacker drops his head slightly for a header (it was brave but I wonder if he’d do that again) and the defender kicks him in the face under the eye. The attacker will have a nice black eye tomorrow and there was a small cut. No contact on the ball but clear contact on the attacker. I blew very quickly for a penalty even though only the attacker who got kicked appealed. The only person to complain was the defender who said his head was too low. I agree it probably was but nonetheless he didn’t get the ball. The game ended 4-2 and the penalty didn’t change the game but did make the last 20 minutes a closer contest.
Incident number two was a tackle coming in from the white team which I judged to be a yellow for a late reckless tackle after the melee (no punches or anything thrown). It fizzled out after 30 seconds during which I blew my whistle loudly and one of the goalkeepers acted as peacemaker. However, the captain of the white team was unhappy that one of the subs of the opposing team came on to the pitch during the melee and got involved in the confrontation. I think I may have got this one wrong as in hindsight I wish I had cautioned the substitute for entering the field of play without permission which would have been a slam dunk. Would this have been the right approach? Other than entering the pitch he didn’t do much else wrong, no accusations of anything other than arguing with an opposing team player but he shouldn’t have been on the pitch. I was told by the captain I had bottled the decision, at the time there was so much going on that I focused on dealing with the tackle that started it and therefore overlooked the actions of the sub.
The first incident happened from a corner. The ball gets sent in to the penalty area and the attacker drops his head slightly for a header (it was brave but I wonder if he’d do that again) and the defender kicks him in the face under the eye. The attacker will have a nice black eye tomorrow and there was a small cut. No contact on the ball but clear contact on the attacker. I blew very quickly for a penalty even though only the attacker who got kicked appealed. The only person to complain was the defender who said his head was too low. I agree it probably was but nonetheless he didn’t get the ball. The game ended 4-2 and the penalty didn’t change the game but did make the last 20 minutes a closer contest.
Incident number two was a tackle coming in from the white team which I judged to be a yellow for a late reckless tackle after the melee (no punches or anything thrown). It fizzled out after 30 seconds during which I blew my whistle loudly and one of the goalkeepers acted as peacemaker. However, the captain of the white team was unhappy that one of the subs of the opposing team came on to the pitch during the melee and got involved in the confrontation. I think I may have got this one wrong as in hindsight I wish I had cautioned the substitute for entering the field of play without permission which would have been a slam dunk. Would this have been the right approach? Other than entering the pitch he didn’t do much else wrong, no accusations of anything other than arguing with an opposing team player but he shouldn’t have been on the pitch. I was told by the captain I had bottled the decision, at the time there was so much going on that I focused on dealing with the tackle that started it and therefore overlooked the actions of the sub.
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