How would you handle player calling the opposite club assistant 'cheat'?

[one]

Do you send all players off for saying anything 'offensive' no matter how slight? Or does it need to be a certain amount offensive?

For me, I keep it simple. If I don't send them off I havn't deemed it offensive. If I deemed it offensive, I'd send them off. There is not 'slight' or 'amount' in the assessment. I make it a black and white decision.

Similar to dissent. If there is no card/bin it is a disagreement that I have not deemed to have reached the level of dissent.

Or if it helps, for a foul I assess it as either careless or not careless. There is no slightly careless.

 

[wazztie16]

I sent a player off at Sunday morning OA earlier this season for calling the opposition CAR a cheat. Took people by surprise, but I'd do it again.

As far as I'm concerned, a CAR is part of my team for the purposes of the fixture, and unless I have reason to believe they have actually cheated on the decision in question (which for this one, I didn't), I will believe them until I have been shown otherwise.

As a player, you may think they're cheating, but even if you do, you don't need to be shouting/screaming it at them.

 

[RefereeX]

I do always remind players also that it isn't a binary choice between the AR being correct and the AR cheating. Professional ARs get decisions wrong occasionally, so a an honest club AR trying their best is also entitled to do the same