La Liga 2...when the ref tries to play advantage

[Russell Jones]

Stop the game, no kick out
who is responsible for stopping and starting the game?

the referee

Don't blow the whistle to start the game .. no misconduct, job done, go home

 

[Anubis]

You certainly always like to point the finger at referees when things go wrong. At senior levels you are told to let the game breathe and are expected to wait and see and only signal advantage if it comes off. If the referee here blows immediately and the fouled player doesn't act like a complete tool and instead plays the ball to the 5 who is free on the left wing he rightly gets slated.

One person and one person only to blame here and that is the player kicking out. If this was the Dog and Duck vs the Frog and Parrot on a Sunday morning then I would agree and say just give the foul, but it wasn't. If a professional player being paid tens of thousands of pounds a week can't stop himself from kicking out he deserves to be sent off and shouldn't be protected by the referee killing the game, at least not unless there has been some previous.

not true at all as I stated I also would have attempted let play continue.

making me point the finger at myself too


Is it not you that ( correctly) states, often, at that level we are encouraged to keep players on the park?

very diff to what you are saying here.

 

[GraemeS]

The only reason not to try and play advantage here is if you somehow knew the offended-against player was going to kick out like that. If he doesn't kick out, stopping the play is a bad call.

And if you're the referee in that situation and knew with enough certainty that he was going to react like that, the sensible decision is to drop your whistle, walk off the pitch and start playing the lottery every week.

 

[RustyRef]

not true at all as I stated I also would have attempted let play continue.

making me point the finger at myself too


Is it not you that ( correctly) states, often, at that level we are encouraged to keep players on the park?

very diff to what you are saying here.

That is where there is clear danger or risk, like when you've played one advantage and the same player gets fouled again. Letting it go on then would be a clear risk and best practice would be to stop play unless he is literally about to score.

But in this case there is no obvious danger, 999 out of 1000 times the fouled player won't kick out and instead will make use of being allowed to carry on. And to be clear I'm talking senior level here, at grass roots I'd just be stopping for the foul, not because of risk but rather at that skill level the free kick is a better advantage.