Well done Michael Oliver.
People on twitter criticising him as expected but he's spot on.
The general public / spectators are scarily bad when it comes to knowledge of the laws. All of this has built up due to ignorant commentators, pundits, players and managers.People keep referencing that you don't go back and caution spa after advantage but he wasn't cautioned for spa. The first one is failure to respect the distance on a throw in or you can probably just call it in general and sporting behavior.
I just love when people dive into the laws of the game which they've probably never looked at before and think they find something that allows them to feign outrage.The general public / spectators are scarily bad when it comes to knowledge of the laws. All of this has built up due to ignorant commentators, pundits, players and managers.
We need to start educating because I'm sure even if any of us do this in 24/48 hours we will still get called every name under the sun.
Does failure to respect the required distance apply on a quickly taken throw-in? Other thing is did the offence occur before the throw-in was completed, so can you play advantage for unfairly distracting or impeding the thrower?People keep referencing that you don't go back and caution spa after advantage but he wasn't cautioned for spa. The first one is failure to respect the distance on a throw in or you can probably just call it in general and sporting behavior.
I think it's hard to justify him not delaying the restart when he moves to the ball not away from it.Does failure to respect the required distance apply on a quickly taken throw-in? Other thing is did the offence occur before the throw-in was completed, so can you play advantage for unfairly distracting or impeding the thrower?
Does failure to respect the required distance apply on a quickly taken throw-in? Other thing is did the offence occur before the throw-in was completed, so can you play advantage for unfairly distracting or impeding the thrower?
This crossed my mind. Can the game be restarted with the throw-in and then have the card issued for an offence that occurred before that restart?It's an interesting question on going back to caution an offense that occurred during a dead ball. I suppose in spirit it matches up with the change of cautioning after a restart if it's taken quickly.
The general public / spectators are scarily bad when it comes to knowledge of the laws. All of this has built up due to ignorant commentators, pundits, players and managers.
We need to start educating because I'm sure even if any of us do this in 24/48 hours we will still get called every name under the sun.
I think your point is summed up well here. Awful.
i know Walton gets some stick (often justifiably so) but fair play to him on this one.
3 offences happen at the same time here.I don't know you need to be a FIFA to get that right, but it certainly takes courage to go yellow-yellow-red, especially in an era that has been putting more pressure to keep games at 11.
(FWIW, my impression was the first caution was for USB with the push after the ball was in play, which makes it not much to talk about under the Laws.)