Yellow v blue today; blue tackled and feels it’s a foul, I don’t so blue player runs at me telling me how frustrated he is. I take a couple of steps back to give him breathing space but he continues forward. At this point it’s An easy YC for dissent so I blow the whistle to stop the game to issue the caution. At this time the yellow team are on half way line looking to progress although I deem it to be a dead area. I issue the caution to blue player and Restart with IDFK
When I stopped the game there were a few half hearted complaints about yellows having the ball etc and I could have let play continue until the next stoppage but felt this was a necessary caution to help my match control, what you don’t punish you encourage and leaving it till the next stoppage would not have had the same impact especially as it could have been a few minutes but ultimately while yellows had control of the ball they were not in an advanced area or in the middle of a promising attack so just wondering what everyone else thinks?
When I stopped the game there were a few half hearted complaints about yellows having the ball etc and I could have let play continue until the next stoppage but felt this was a necessary caution to help my match control, what you don’t punish you encourage and leaving it till the next stoppage would not have had the same impact especially as it could have been a few minutes but ultimately while yellows had control of the ball they were not in an advanced area or in the middle of a promising attack so just wondering what everyone else thinks?