The referee concerned, a very efficient fellow, always carries a spare whistle in his pocket in case his Acme Thunderer's pea breaks. However, during this match, the whistle falls out of his pocket and is craftily picked up by a Red team player.
Suddenly, a Blue team attacker breaks through and is closing in on goal with no defenders near him and only the goalkeeper to beat. The Red team player blows the whistle loudly. The Blue team player stops and the ball runs to the goalkeeper.
How does the referee solve this one then?
(With acknowledgements to Maidstone brach of the KRA)
6 comments:
Stop play. Caution player for unsporting behaviour and restart with an indirect free kick at the position of the ball when the whistle was blown.
And hope that the guy you're cautioning already has one caution, he probably deserves to be sent off ;)
Thanks Exeref, but how about Dogso? I'm not saying this is the answer but surely you have to consider the player has prevented an obvious goal opportunity and should be treated in the same way as though he had fouled him. or not?
I considered it, but DOGSO would be incredibly difficult to sell, and wouldn't actually be correct in law.
Law 12 says that a player shall be dismissed if he denies an obvious goalscoring oppurtunity by either handling the ball or commiting an offence punishable by a free kick or penalty kick.
Blowing the whistle isn't such an offence, so the only way you could penalise it is by cautioning and awarding an indirect free kick (referee stops play to administer a caution for any offence not previously listed).
So blowing the whistle isn't the same as fouling, and you couldn't treat it as such really. The only way you could send him (let's face it, he deserves to go) is if he'd already been cautioned. Such is life, he probably hasn't. But I'd certainly not be leniant if another cautionable offence came up.
Oh, and a good reason that if you have a spare whistle, keep it in a pocket where it isn't going to fall out. I don't tend to bother any more, just keep a spare one in the changing room just in case but a FOX40 can't really fail.
The referee stopped play to deal with the misconduct (presumably USB). Once cautioned for this offense, he has committed an offense punishable by an (indirect) free kick. So if indeed he is in on goal alone with only the goalkeeper to beat, why doesn't this qualify as DOGSO? Next comes the send-off. No need for a second yellow.
well actually, it wasn't the referee who stopped play, it was the naughty player. Whatever, think we can forget the USB offence as there is a strong argument for a straight red for DOGSO. Player stopped goal scoring opportunity by committing a foul (as long as you're comfortable with calling the whistle blowing a foul)
nutmegger, careful with your assumption there. The offence is only a free kick because the referee has stopped play to caution. Yes, then he has commited an offence worthy of a free kick, but he can only be cautioned for it.
You can't punish the same offence twice, so you could only go for a caution. A send off would be incorrect in law.
Fatlad, blowing the whistle is not a foul. Nor is it actually an offence, unless you deem it to be unsporting behaviour, a caution. Only then can you award even an indirect free kick.
Oh, and the player does not stop play, officially. Only the match referee has the authority under law 5 to stop play, no player, whistle or not, has the authority to do that. If he yelled in the player's ear, from closer distance, it's exactly the same. Unless OFFINABUS, it could only possibly be a yellow card.
If blowing the whistle ever becomes an offence by law 12 then you can justify a red card. At present, it is neither a direct or indirect free kick offence, the only way you can award a free kick would be indirect under the clause "referee stops play to administer a caution or send off for any offence not listed here."
You can't call the whistle blowing a foul. That's just plain wrong.
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