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It's a really fair point - whatever you think of the quality of L1/L2 football it is football, PL2 is very safe and insular rather than 'real world'.

It's a horrendous law - if you believe a caution/FK is better than an advantage, I'd stop play. In that situation it needn't be a hard sell.

But he's on before the card has been issued or explained, I think.

I have to bite my tongue when the missus says that tennis is better than football - she's not being disrespectful, just wrong ;). I did add the caveat though that the OP was there and I wasn't.

None of this suggests that anything disrespectful happened to me and I cannot see match control (admittedly you shouldn't struggle to control an u11s game!) benefitting from an immediate card.

How?

Have you ever had someone at parks level come onto the pitch to administer first aid without being invited on? Did you caution them? I don't see the need to go straight for a card, personally.

Seems that you got the end result correct, just two things I'd say: 1. before I'm letting someone off the field (coach/manager/substitute/parent) get involved, I'm always doing my thing first - the game is stopped so they're not losing anything by not making the sub and it saves any such...

A really interesting game for me. I thought it was a penalty live, but after its not been given I don't think it's C&O - given or not, its not overturnable either way. The lack of appeals were really weird too. That's about as much a foul on Salah as I am in the Select Group. You don't retain...

PL timekeeper changed before these season from TAGHeur to Hublot.

You're in a dreamland (or one without TV and social media) if you think that the public and MOTD would 'accept human error.' Year after year broadcasters were drawing millimetre offside lines to provoke fans - as soon as a VAR does it it's 'ruining football.'

Yes, I'm sure the public response we've had to VAR to date tells us that'll go well.

The fact is that a player who was influential in the outcome committed an offence. However tight, there is technology which shows this clearly.

No offence has been committed. However, the referee isn't straight in there to caution - he does so after a delay. The fact he kept the card in hand rather than right back in the pocket tells me I think he cautions both. Having checked the match report - 9 is booked so I assume are both are for...

I think its a red for VC - or if you rather a yellow for AA and a second for the worst kick ever! ;) - but there are two things that are interesting to me: 1. What in God's name was the initial YC for? Given he didn't make the tackle it can only have been for the reaction - suggesting the...

Totally agree - but still technically allowed/correct.

But did they feign injury?

You can be both fouled and feigning injury.

Oh, I quite agree but you'd be correct in law.

Thank you. Was he injured? No. Did he pretend to be? Yes. Yellow card. Did Fred act in a manner that fits with then VC definition? Yes. Red card.