Yep, officiating system is pants
And in some cases (like this) a lack of an officiating 'system'
What needs clearing up is, what actually classes as a yellow card/red card offence? It was once a warning for a foul, yellow card for persistent fouling (twice) and then a final/2nd warning if already on a yellow card and then off again. But I feel these days are long gone now.
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Honestly I don't think that was ever the case.
It's always been about the type of foul. It's all laid out in the rule book.
Newcastle should have had 2 players sent off - Sissoko and Cabaye.
The reason they stayed on was because the ref felt guilty for disallowing a perfectly legitimate goal and so was trying to even out his decisions.
Hopefully he gets relegated to a lower league for a couple of weeks.
Mbia should have walked for crocking Nasri as well
The system actually works pretty much as you describe it in the original article. A 'careless' challenge is a foul, 'reckless' is a yellow card and 'using excessive force' (aka 'dangerous' is a straight red; plus you can give a yellow for 'persistent flouting of the Laws of the Game'.
The problem with this setup is that there's not really much attempt to define any of those terms, so everything comes entirely down to a referee's own discretion. What one ref might deem merely 'careless', another might consider 'reckless', and because there's no definition to guide them either decision would technically be correct - all the justification that's needed was that the referee considered it to be that way. Same goes for 'persistent fouling' - how many fouls does that require? Some refs might have it as two or three, some might make it five or six, and some might vary it depending on how serious they perceived each foul to be.
Obviously it's difficult to give a clear-cut definition of what should be a red/yellow card, given the huge variety of forms of contact and amounts of force used in fouls, but the current system makes it a little too easy for refs to justify strange decisions and doesn't encourage consistency at all.
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posted on 12/1/14
Yep, officiating system is pants
posted on 12/1/14
And in some cases (like this) a lack of an officiating 'system'
posted on 12/1/14
What needs clearing up is, what actually classes as a yellow card/red card offence? It was once a warning for a foul, yellow card for persistent fouling (twice) and then a final/2nd warning if already on a yellow card and then off again. But I feel these days are long gone now.
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Honestly I don't think that was ever the case.
It's always been about the type of foul. It's all laid out in the rule book.
posted on 12/1/14
Newcastle should have had 2 players sent off - Sissoko and Cabaye.
The reason they stayed on was because the ref felt guilty for disallowing a perfectly legitimate goal and so was trying to even out his decisions.
Hopefully he gets relegated to a lower league for a couple of weeks.
posted on 12/1/14
Mbia should have walked for crocking Nasri as well
posted on 12/1/14
The system actually works pretty much as you describe it in the original article. A 'careless' challenge is a foul, 'reckless' is a yellow card and 'using excessive force' (aka 'dangerous' is a straight red; plus you can give a yellow for 'persistent flouting of the Laws of the Game'.
The problem with this setup is that there's not really much attempt to define any of those terms, so everything comes entirely down to a referee's own discretion. What one ref might deem merely 'careless', another might consider 'reckless', and because there's no definition to guide them either decision would technically be correct - all the justification that's needed was that the referee considered it to be that way. Same goes for 'persistent fouling' - how many fouls does that require? Some refs might have it as two or three, some might make it five or six, and some might vary it depending on how serious they perceived each foul to be.
Obviously it's difficult to give a clear-cut definition of what should be a red/yellow card, given the huge variety of forms of contact and amounts of force used in fouls, but the current system makes it a little too easy for refs to justify strange decisions and doesn't encourage consistency at all.
posted on 12/1/14
Agreed ^^
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