MobNet Wolf
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I can live with referees failing to see things. Or contentious decisions going the other way. But nothing has me riled up like a referee who doesn’t know the laws of the game.
I didn’t get much recognition of this from those around me in the ground, and Frank please tell me if I’m wrong, but Jota should not have been required to leave the pitch after Cattermole was sent off.
Along with the backwards pass from kick off and the end of the “double punishment” penalty and red card situation, the third rule introduced by IFAB in summer 2016 was that a player who is injured and requires treatment following a challenge that earns the opposition player a card, does not have to leave the pitch.
It might sound minor, but getting things like that wrong is unacceptable for a professional referee.
I didn’t get much recognition of this from those around me in the ground, and Frank please tell me if I’m wrong, but Jota should not have been required to leave the pitch after Cattermole was sent off.
Along with the backwards pass from kick off and the end of the “double punishment” penalty and red card situation, the third rule introduced by IFAB in summer 2016 was that a player who is injured and requires treatment following a challenge that earns the opposition player a card, does not have to leave the pitch.
It might sound minor, but getting things like that wrong is unacceptable for a professional referee.