JBeil
Active Member
A few situations that came up this weekend that I'm looking for clarification on:
1. An incident occurs off the ball and you blow for the whistle as the handbags start, but you did not see clearly who committed any offense, and you have blown before the ball could cross any line. How do you restart play, and what steps do you take to enforce discipline?
2. You blow for an incident off the ball in the penalty area, which you intend to give as an indirect free kick for the defending team. While play is stopped and you are warning two players about their conduct, a second incident occurs. You are unable to see who committed an offense, but a player claims to have been elbowed in the face. What, if anything, do you do to enforce discipline before restarting as you would for the original foul? Do you stick with your original IDFK decision, or change?
3. At the pre-match briefing, you instruct both club ARs to leave fouls to you. In the first half, a CAR signals for a free kick, and the players stop before you tell them to carry on. At the next break in play you ask the CAR in question to leave fouls to you to protect him from criticism (and don't say that he's not qualified to make those decisions anyway!), In the second half, he signals again for a foul in the goal-mouth as a goal is scored. You award the goal. The team conceding the goal are complaining that the AR has signalled for a foul and the goal shouldn't stand. How do you deal with this, apart from telling the players to get on with it? Do you ask to replace the CAR?
1. An incident occurs off the ball and you blow for the whistle as the handbags start, but you did not see clearly who committed any offense, and you have blown before the ball could cross any line. How do you restart play, and what steps do you take to enforce discipline?
2. You blow for an incident off the ball in the penalty area, which you intend to give as an indirect free kick for the defending team. While play is stopped and you are warning two players about their conduct, a second incident occurs. You are unable to see who committed an offense, but a player claims to have been elbowed in the face. What, if anything, do you do to enforce discipline before restarting as you would for the original foul? Do you stick with your original IDFK decision, or change?
3. At the pre-match briefing, you instruct both club ARs to leave fouls to you. In the first half, a CAR signals for a free kick, and the players stop before you tell them to carry on. At the next break in play you ask the CAR in question to leave fouls to you to protect him from criticism (and don't say that he's not qualified to make those decisions anyway!), In the second half, he signals again for a foul in the goal-mouth as a goal is scored. You award the goal. The team conceding the goal are complaining that the AR has signalled for a foul and the goal shouldn't stand. How do you deal with this, apart from telling the players to get on with it? Do you ask to replace the CAR?