Had an 'incident' on Saturday. I believed I was correct in law on how I handled it. What are your thoughts...?
Attacker, runs into the box, skips past the tiring Defender. Defender then trips attacker deliberately and makes contact. I am 5 metres away, but hold off blowing whistle for a second or so as the attacker although stumbling has a chance to knock it past the keeper, he doesn’t, goalkeeper saves it. I blow up. PENALTY KICK. It was a clear foul, not even debatable. Caution.
I didn’t play advantage in the sense of screaming ADVANTAGE, just held off blowing the whistle just to see what happened. Now cue a couple of defending players, including the goalkeeper who pulled off a good save saying I played the advantage, why am I giving them a penalty. I simply said, he was fouled swiftly followed by GO AWAY NOW!
Now, I know that you are never going to get a good enough advantage other than a penalty kick unless you are putting it into an open net and if attacker is wiped out on floor with no chance of doing anything then I would blow up straight away, however I delayed slightly as the attacker had some BUT very little composure to get a shot away. I’d rather award goal and give some words of advice to defender to behave himself.
I remember Phil Dowd applied the above at Anfield possibly last season or season before by memory. In law I believe I was correct, in terms of managing the game, maybe it was easier to blow up straight away?
Ironically, the same player in the second half wiped out the same attacker whilst he was clean through in the area so he was sent off for DOGSO and another penalty was awarded.
Thoughts?
Attacker, runs into the box, skips past the tiring Defender. Defender then trips attacker deliberately and makes contact. I am 5 metres away, but hold off blowing whistle for a second or so as the attacker although stumbling has a chance to knock it past the keeper, he doesn’t, goalkeeper saves it. I blow up. PENALTY KICK. It was a clear foul, not even debatable. Caution.
I didn’t play advantage in the sense of screaming ADVANTAGE, just held off blowing the whistle just to see what happened. Now cue a couple of defending players, including the goalkeeper who pulled off a good save saying I played the advantage, why am I giving them a penalty. I simply said, he was fouled swiftly followed by GO AWAY NOW!
Now, I know that you are never going to get a good enough advantage other than a penalty kick unless you are putting it into an open net and if attacker is wiped out on floor with no chance of doing anything then I would blow up straight away, however I delayed slightly as the attacker had some BUT very little composure to get a shot away. I’d rather award goal and give some words of advice to defender to behave himself.
I remember Phil Dowd applied the above at Anfield possibly last season or season before by memory. In law I believe I was correct, in terms of managing the game, maybe it was easier to blow up straight away?
Ironically, the same player in the second half wiped out the same attacker whilst he was clean through in the area so he was sent off for DOGSO and another penalty was awarded.
Thoughts?
