Recent Content by DougO

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Earthquakes at Stanford

Sorry, S.J.Jim, but you're the one who sounds silly. In the first place, PKs do have an impact on the way players play the game. They get called,...

You said it wasn't a crime. You said the ref shouldn't have gotten the police involved. You were wrong on both counts. You're welcome. There...

That's the gamble Yallop is taking. We'll all get plenty of opportunity to see how he conducts himself. I'm on record now as saying its a bad...

Wasn't up to the ref. The player was taken from the field in handcuffs because the officers that observed the incident knew not only that battery...

USSF Directives to Referees suggest that when considering the red card for Denial of an Obvious Goal-Scoring Opportunity (DOGSO) the 4D's be...

I had several years experience when just at the beginning of last season, I tripped and fell over an electrical cable conduit while attending the...

Thanks for the info, I wasn't aware of that.

I agree that you can't overturn the red card. It happened in game and ITOOTR and it's fait accompli. But the suspension is not FIFA's! The...

I came late in my appreciation of The Game to the role of the referee, so I, too, am beyond the age where I could entertain any ambitions towards...

Had that been all that was said, I would have had no disagreement :).

I am not the poster to whom Alberto was responding so I am not responding to this personally. But let's talk about this approach to...

First time I heard this was midway through the first half of my first match as CR doing anything above U12. This was U14B-Select as it was then...

Now that I've watched the recording of the second half, the red card may be a tiny bit more understandable, given that match temperature was...