zarathustra
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Had an incident, or perhaps a non-incident in my game today which got me thinking.
It was the 91st minute in a fairly tame game, the assessor counted 30 free kicks in all, but none of which required anything more than a quick chat.
Stripes are 3-1 down when one of the yellow forwards runs into the penalty area, wide of the goal but obviously looking for a cross.
One of the stripes defenders puts in a good sliding tackle and knocks the ball out for a throw, but the tackle makes the yellow forward fall, theatrically, to the ground.
In this instance I didn't caution the attacker as while he went down I wasn't convinced it was a "dive", and he'd not appealed for the foul, so settled for a quick word that was along the lines of "the tackle was good, I'm not accusing you of diving, but it was a bit theatrical mate".
The players were happy, and after the game the assessor was happy that a quiet word was acceptable in that situation
So, my question is, how do you differentiate between a "dive" and someone who innocently falls over or loses their footing?
I know some times it will be obvious, but I tend to give the player who went down the benefit of the doubt.
It was the 91st minute in a fairly tame game, the assessor counted 30 free kicks in all, but none of which required anything more than a quick chat.
Stripes are 3-1 down when one of the yellow forwards runs into the penalty area, wide of the goal but obviously looking for a cross.
One of the stripes defenders puts in a good sliding tackle and knocks the ball out for a throw, but the tackle makes the yellow forward fall, theatrically, to the ground.
In this instance I didn't caution the attacker as while he went down I wasn't convinced it was a "dive", and he'd not appealed for the foul, so settled for a quick word that was along the lines of "the tackle was good, I'm not accusing you of diving, but it was a bit theatrical mate".
The players were happy, and after the game the assessor was happy that a quiet word was acceptable in that situation
So, my question is, how do you differentiate between a "dive" and someone who innocently falls over or loses their footing?
I know some times it will be obvious, but I tend to give the player who went down the benefit of the doubt.