This morning I saw a familiar face appear on twitter and clicked through to their profile. Long story short, there was a comment about a serious injury happening during a game from a couple of months back and I realised that I refereed the game. The comment wasn't offensive, it was purely questioning my decision for not giving a yellow/red card for the tackle which led to the serious injury. I'm not fussed about the comment not do I want to make a big deal of it (it mentioned I was pleasant and also didn't do much else wrong).
I remember this incident well as the manager of the injured player was unhappy with the tackle (it was on the far side of the pitch from him in the corner) and I was right on top of it, my positioning genuinely could not have been better. My decision at the time was to pull the player to one side and have a chat with him, no cards given. In my opinion at the time, the player who committed the offence tried to win the ball and I didn't deem it to be reckless (he also made sure he was ok straight away). The injured player went off although I had no idea at the time that the injury was so severe. The tackle itself was strong but fair and I deemed that he won the ball but must have caught him on the follow through after. Red no, yellow possibly but at the time I thought a talking to was sufficient.
Having seen that tweet I feel really bad and feel like I may have made quite a bad mistake given the injury. I'm now questioning whether my foul detection is good enough and if I was too lenient given the outcome. The game remained in good spirits through until the end and I didn't give a single card for the rest of the game so it's not as if my decision not to caution the player led to a loss of control and there wasn't any retaliation.
Any thoughts?
I remember this incident well as the manager of the injured player was unhappy with the tackle (it was on the far side of the pitch from him in the corner) and I was right on top of it, my positioning genuinely could not have been better. My decision at the time was to pull the player to one side and have a chat with him, no cards given. In my opinion at the time, the player who committed the offence tried to win the ball and I didn't deem it to be reckless (he also made sure he was ok straight away). The injured player went off although I had no idea at the time that the injury was so severe. The tackle itself was strong but fair and I deemed that he won the ball but must have caught him on the follow through after. Red no, yellow possibly but at the time I thought a talking to was sufficient.
Having seen that tweet I feel really bad and feel like I may have made quite a bad mistake given the injury. I'm now questioning whether my foul detection is good enough and if I was too lenient given the outcome. The game remained in good spirits through until the end and I didn't give a single card for the rest of the game so it's not as if my decision not to caution the player led to a loss of control and there wasn't any retaliation.
Any thoughts?