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Red Card Amendment at Grass Roots level.

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Amendments to Red Card Reporting
Currently Referees across the game at all levels when dismissing a player from the field of play are required to write a detailed report of the offence when reporting the dismissal.
The purpose of this report is largely historic and relates to when Players were able to appeal a dismissal and attend a Personal hearing to challenge the report. The move at grassroots level from term based discipline to match based discipline prevented personal hearings for red card offences and was replaced with the wrongful dismissal process.
The requirement to report the detail of the dismissal is not necessary for the Wrongful Dismissal process that now applies at all levels of the game and in fact contributes to confusion as to the purpose of that process.
The ability to claim a Wrongful Dismissal applies where a Club can demonstrate that the decision to send off a player for the offence committed was obviously wrong.
Clubs often concentrate their submissions on perceived errors in the detail of the report rather than whether the decision to send off for the offence was or was not correct. The onus is on the Club to show that the referee was obviously wrong in the dismissal offence and where they cannot satisfy that burden any claim should fail.
It has therefore been agreed to amend the reporting process with effect from the start of the 2018/19 season to operate the same as reporting yellow card offences. This change will apply at all levels of the game.
Therefore the referee is only required to report the red card offences as laid out in the laws of the game as follows:
S1. Serious Foul Play
S2. Violent Conduct
S3. Spits at an Opponent or any other person
S4. Denying the opposing player an obvious goal scoring opportunity by deliberately handling the ball
S5. Denies the opposing player an obvious goal scoring opportunity by an offence punishable by a free kick or penalty kick
S6. Uses Offensive, insulting or abusive language
S7. Receives a second caution in the same match (This offence also requires the referee to report the caution offence for each caution)
Offences of S2 – Violent conduct will be categorised further with the following categories:
 S2 – Violent Conduct - Head to Head contact
 S2 – Violent Conduct - Elbowing
 S2 – Violent Conduct - Kicking
 S2 – Violent Conduct - Stamping
 S2 – Violent Conduct – Striking
 S2 – Violent Conduct – Biting
 S2 – Violent Conduct – Other Unspecified Behaviour*
(* A free text field to capture other Unspecified Behaviour will be available if this option is selected).

There will be no requirement to write any further details for dismissals. This will save the referees time in reporting and avoid supplying unnecessary detail surrounding the offence.
It should be noted that both MOAS and WGS Portal are being amended to permit this change.
Extraordinary Reports
Referees will still be required to write details surrounding extraordinary incidents in the following circumstances.
a. Where the dismissal offence has a more serious impact than the dismissal itself, the referee will be required to submit the dismissal offence as normal and then add a supplementary extraordinary report clarifying why the dismissal was exceptional. Such examples would be where the offence committed included an aggravated breach such as discriminatory language or behaviour (homophobic, sexist or reference to race/colour/religion/ethnicity etc.) or here there was a serious injury caused by the act of violent conduct.
b. Where further misconduct happened following the dismissal such as the player refusing to leave the field of play or committed other further acts of misconduct following the dismissal.
c. Where the offences committed were by non-playing staff or spectators.
 
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So just to clarify for doughnuts like me, your bog standard Red Card can be put through with the relevant code like a yellow?
 
So just to clarify for doughnuts like me, your bog standard Red Card can be put through with the relevant code like a yellow?

Yes, that is correct for "standard" red cards. If it is more than that such as discriminatory language or a serious injury was caused you raise that as a separate extraordinary incident.
 
I was told this was mooted 6-7 years ago, seems logical to me... saves a whole lot of typing the old way!
 
are u telling me upuntil now players could appeal a red card & attened a hearing no matter what the offence?
 
Yes, with video evidence and if the ref has made a serious mistake from memory...

Basically, no! :p
 
Of course, they've added one for "Violent Conduct - Biting", when the new LotG explicity include that in the "Spitting" category. :)
 
I'd like a few more "sub-codes", as C1 codes are already rubbish. But good idea in principal.
 
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Sounds good, hope they do this in Wales as well. We're still on the 'write the incident down' thing for the reds. :(
 
are u telling me upuntil now players could appeal a red card & attened a hearing no matter what the offence?

Yes and no, they used to be able to appeal any sending off. When the change was made to go from term based discipline to match based discipline they could only appeal if it was a case of wrongful dismissal.

So they couldn’t appeal a read card for SFP, but they could appeal if you sent off the wrong player (they would have to offer up the correct player) or if the dismissal was wrong in law, such as sending of a keeper for handling a back pass.

Part of me wonders whether this is actually also a clever trick by the FA, who recognise that there are referees out there who won’t submit sending offs because they can’t be bothered to write a report etc.
 
The new measure somewhat automates the discipline procedure at the FA/CFA
No more having to read countless expletives which all mean the same thing. No more having to read reports per se
Just get the fine in the post and get the head count down at the FA
 
Part of me wonders whether this is actually also a clever trick by the FA, who recognise that there are referees out there who won’t submit sending offs because they can’t be bothered to write a report etc.

Don’t believe that for one minute, I reckon they just can’t be arsed with local hearings & are trying to reduce that number.
 
Fancy, referees putting in spurious reports to justify lost control of games and flashing the plastic Willy Nilly
 
Don’t believe that for one minute, I reckon they just can’t be arsed with local hearings & are trying to reduce that number.

Possibly but personal hearings don’t affect the FA, only the CFAs which are independent organisations, to an extent.

There are referees out there who don’t put cards through because they can’t be bothered to write a report, just as there are plenty of examples of players getting off the hook due to poorly written reports.

But, it will reduce admin time as the discipline departments won’t have to trawl through however many report a week, especially for games higher up the ladder where bans commence immediately.

It’s probably going to cost to amend WGS and MOAS to make these changes.

Probably not huge amount of work involved, change some forms, maybe a bit of business logic etc, but with testing, planning etc and everything else there’ll be a cost, and probably a relatively high one, as the management of these applications will be outsourced
 
Remember the days of having to put S6 duplicates in a separate envelope marked "contains sensitive material" before posting everything off together to County? Have a busy weekend and it was like putting a pillow in the post. Heh.
 
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