In the LOTG, players can be cautioned for unsporting behavior, which when a player "verbally distracts an opponent during play or at a restart." In my game the other day, the attackers was one-on-one with the goalkeeper in the penalty area. A defender was behind the attacker and running to get to him, but he would not make it in time. The defender yelled to distract the attacker, but the attacker scored any way. Here is my question: If the attacker had not scored, could I have given the defender a red card for DOGSO based on that scenario?
Under what justification? The LOTG does not give any instance where "verbally distracts" could be applied as a DOGSO and is listed solely as a cautionable. Whether it would be the right thing to do, is a whole different story.
Except for the goalkeeper handling the ball inside their penalty area when not permitted to (unless such handling is a double touch on a restart)
Would have made for a great question in the old days of the in-person recerts. Even though many of the questions made you wonder if any of the scenarios would ever happen, most actually did.
"Every time you think you've seen it all, along comes something else." Saturday, I was talking with some other track officials about some incidents that had happened, like the one where, in a college indoor meet, a relay runner had an attack of diarrhea during her leg of the relay. Now you've got poop on the track. What does the referee do?
Follow the bodily fluids protocol in the site EAP. Oh the site doesn't have an EAP or any facility support staff present? Then advise the event director of what has to happen for the event to proceed and they sort it out.
Someone set a world record this weekend (110 hurdles) at a meet I'm 90% sure Law5 was at, I wonder if that was a first.
The umpire (roughly analogous to an assistant referee in soccer) raised his yellow flag. They then radioed the referee and reported what they had seen. "Why did you raise your yellow flag?" "I don't have a brown one. There's feces in lane five." "What????" He repeated what he had said and the race was stopped. The coaches offered to just not run in that lane. Ah, no. "You, your schools and we [officials] don't have enough money to pay the damages if someone steps in it and gets infected with who knows what." After 45 minutes and a suitable application of soap, water and bleach, the race was re-run.
Yes, I was there. I had been standing there, waiting to cross the track after that race was run. He was so excited that he didn't know what to do, bouncing around, with a giant smile and unable to believe the time. He turned around and we briefly made eye contact. He decided not to try to hug me but it was a near miss. I have been involved with at least two other world records, observing one up very close and officiating the other. Both have since been broken. I have signed off on the authenticating paperwork for four national records.