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Post by claymillman on Sept 20, 2012 7:45:17 GMT
I have never seen such a booking in my life before. For those who were not at the game.
Richards was warming up along the side of the pitch, when the ball was coming towards him and going to go into touch, with no player chasing it down. For some inexplicable reason, Justin decided to stop the ball by trapping it, but did it while the ball was still about 1 foot in play.
For this he was booked, quite rightly I feel, so collecting a booking whilst still on the bench.
The referee awarded a free kick to York, which frankly I'm not sure whether he should have done, (perhaps a dropped ball?) I don't frankly know.
But overall a rather unusual and "silly season" thing to do ;D
What do others think of this small but amusing incident?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2012 8:55:37 GMT
In the old days of Shoot Magazine, there used to be a section called 'You Are the Ref', all kinds of contrived situations described in cartoon for and you had to decide what decision the ref should have made. Invariably the answer was 'caution for ungentlemanly conduct and restart the game with a drop ball'. I thought that is what should have happened last night, can any referee out there confirm whether the ref was right?
Overall though I thought the ref did well, it is quite a while now since I saw a really poor performance from the ref, same cant be said in the Premier League...
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Post by sjh567 on Sept 20, 2012 9:09:25 GMT
very strange and yes should have been a drop ball because none of the players on the pitch touched the ball free kicks are for fouls and i didnt see any foul by any of our players on the pitch at that moment
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Post by claymillman on Sept 20, 2012 9:24:20 GMT
Overall though I thought the ref did well, it is quite a while now since I saw a really poor performance from the ref, same cant be said in the Premier League... I agree about the ref overall. But I'm not so sure about the lino at the Bovril end. In the first half he seemed to flag for almost any contact. I did think the bookings for Weir and the York player in the second half were both unecessarily harsh myself. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2012 9:28:52 GMT
Law three apparently, a substitute entering play without the referees permission, booking and restarted with indirect free kick. Well done the ref, damn Shoot magazine...
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Post by pedant on Sept 20, 2012 18:06:50 GMT
In the interests of educating the masses: it's "Richards' Booking" not "Richard's Booking". Unless, of course, "Justin" is a pseudonym.
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Post by sinfinbovril on Sept 20, 2012 18:11:46 GMT
Don't know about anyone else but it's the sort of absent-minded thing I might have done myself. I seem to remember the keeper had saved it, there was a kind of lull ("phew, they didn't score") and there was a little bit of doubt as to whether play had stopped or not.
Someone pointed out that that was his evening over at point - he'd not be coming on. One loose tackle and he could've got a second yellow.
I bet he took some stick in the changing room....
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Post by claymillman on Sept 20, 2012 19:24:03 GMT
In the interests of educating the masses: it's "Richards' Booking" not "Richard's Booking". Unless, of course, "Justin" is a pseudonym. I stand corrected, in fact I thought I had used Richards'. Mind you, compared with some of the grammar on these sites, mine is generally pretty good. |
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