We're litigating coach-referee interactions in the media now from a one-sided perspective after the advent of yellow cards?! No way!!! The substitution at the nearest point was definitely the stupidest law change this year for the game as a whole. But cards for non-players/substitutes, at the professional level, is either a tie or a close second. More attention on referees. More hostility toward referees. An elevation of coaches and their already large egos. And less attention on, you know, the actual playing of the sport.
My answer to both questions is a sheepish "I don't know." On the former, I presumed they'd be in the box scores on the UEFA websites, but maybe not? I think a physiotherapist was dismissed in one instance yesterday, so stuff like that could be hard to record correctly in real-time for someone not involved in the officiating team. As for the accumulation issue, I am sure that is documented. I just don't know where and don't have that readily available.
I don't know. At least I couldn't find them. For accumulation, I guess we just have to wait until a coach gets suspended to find that out from the media. Or there is no accumulation rule for coaches yet, which would be somewhat strange.
I wonder if disciplinary sanctions of people are under the now very strict privacy laws in the EU. Is it still legal to publish those data by FA's/UEFA?
Maybe a huge handkerchief to the rescue: Ref to player: look under my handkerchief to see what card I gave you. Then the player heads to the dressing room. Rara...what was the card shown
Don't the Laws say somewhere that refs are obligated to explain their decisions to the satisfaction of the manager?
Actually this is a key appointment. It is essentially a derby game between two teams on opposite sides of an international bridge that hate each other! Will need a tough official, Aytekin fits the bill. https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...penhagen-collide-in-europe?CMP=share_btn_link PH
Interesting, wasn't aware of this rivalry. Still, Aytekin was doing CL matches a few years ago (most memorably the Barcelona - PSG match), so for him to be doing more EL matches these days is a step down.
Finally saw the clip of the Rocchi yellow card to a player for not leaving at the nearest boundary. https://streamable.com/ahuzy So the player is instructed where to leave. He doesn’t. He gets a yellow card. Then he STILL leaves where he wants. This makes a referee look impotent. And I bet it saved no time.
Wow, in the Alkmaar - Man United: MAZEIKA (LTU) match, the ref really hated to put the ball on the dot of doom. At least 2 clear penalties not given.
Yea but while a second caution might be deserved it would likely be the end of the career for the referee that handed it out..
Right. So what’s the point of the law? Quite literally all it did was make the referee look terrible. I guess you can argue it makes a player think twice about caution accumulation, but when you start looking for that bank shot you’re admitting it does nothing for the actual officiating and management of the match.
The coach Ten Hag wasnot happy with the action of Promes. He called it foolish as it can be a disadvantage further up in the tournement as it all is very close (in the group) and everybody is needed because of that.
Sure. The body language of his teammates showed they didn’t like the delay. But they still then helped shepherd him to the midfield point. If he had received a 2CT for what he did, the coach would be singing a different tune. As it stands, everyone is happy with the referee’s actions. But again, what did the new rule accomplish? We could always card delays on substitutions.
It could be improved by making the rule that in such cases not only the player subbed off, but also the captain gets a yellow card. Like in the wall breaking out too soon several times, the player on the outside position gets a card, regardless if he was the one to move to soon.
Demmit. Thought to have the brilliant solution. However it can be put in the laws and executed a couple of times by specifically ordering the ref to do it in the briefings. Just to scare the hell out of coaches. They never know when it will strike again.