Mick.
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White v Blue. First 20 minutes or so, very good natured, but hard football. Nothing silly as far as fouls is concerned. About 25 mins into the game white have a corner and there is the usual melee in the box. White take a cracking shot at goal from just outside the goal area. Blue player(not defender) is stood with his heels just behind the goal line. The ball strikes him to the right of his abdomen and makes contact with his arm, which is held tight into his side. As far as I am concerned this is not a deliberate handball, due in part to the proximity of the kick and the fact that the action was ball to arm rather than arm to ball. As the player was stood just within the goal I was satisfied that there was no way the whole of the ball could have crossed the line.
Needless to say white were very vocal about my decision. There was lots of muttering over decisions after that and I did overhear one of them say to another "this is why players end up getting carded for dissent".
Blue subsequently go 1-0 up with 4 mins left of the first half.
In the second half white player is running towards goal when the CAR flags for offside. I am not happy that there is offside so put up my hand and continue. White player didn't make the ball in the end but turned to the CAR shouting "You cheating c..t." I called him across and told him that if it had been an AR I would be carding him for the dissent and even sending him off for Offinabus. As it was, I was prepared to caution for dissent as I was not happy for him to talk to my assistants in that way. On reflection, based on the language used I should have sent him off.
Towards the end of the game, blue kick the ball into touch and blue player ends up falling onto the ball but makes a song and dance about getting up, trapping the ball under his legs and so on. Frustrated white player is trying to get the ball to get on with the throw. I blow my whistle and make my way forward to caution blue player, but as he stands up, white player puts his hands on blue's shoulders and pulls him backwards causing him to fall to the ground. I end up cautioning white for striking a player in a reckless manner and carding the blue for delay. My query now is that as the ball was out of play I cannot caution for a penal offence (e.g. striking a player) so all that was left open to me was violent conduct. But in my view the "violence", whilst deliberate, was not with excessive force. Was I right or should I have sent him off for violent conduct?
Needless to say white were very vocal about my decision. There was lots of muttering over decisions after that and I did overhear one of them say to another "this is why players end up getting carded for dissent".
Blue subsequently go 1-0 up with 4 mins left of the first half.
In the second half white player is running towards goal when the CAR flags for offside. I am not happy that there is offside so put up my hand and continue. White player didn't make the ball in the end but turned to the CAR shouting "You cheating c..t." I called him across and told him that if it had been an AR I would be carding him for the dissent and even sending him off for Offinabus. As it was, I was prepared to caution for dissent as I was not happy for him to talk to my assistants in that way. On reflection, based on the language used I should have sent him off.
Towards the end of the game, blue kick the ball into touch and blue player ends up falling onto the ball but makes a song and dance about getting up, trapping the ball under his legs and so on. Frustrated white player is trying to get the ball to get on with the throw. I blow my whistle and make my way forward to caution blue player, but as he stands up, white player puts his hands on blue's shoulders and pulls him backwards causing him to fall to the ground. I end up cautioning white for striking a player in a reckless manner and carding the blue for delay. My query now is that as the ball was out of play I cannot caution for a penal offence (e.g. striking a player) so all that was left open to me was violent conduct. But in my view the "violence", whilst deliberate, was not with excessive force. Was I right or should I have sent him off for violent conduct?
