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More for Fans and PlayersFrom The Middle
Articles written by Dick Sawdon Smith for his weekly column in the Reading Post
Appeared 6th January 2012
ASSISTANT REFEREES DON’T MAKE DECISIONS
There was some consternation just before Christmas when the assistant referee in the Manchester United v Newcastle game appeared to give a penalty, after the referee had already awarded a corner. The first thing to say is that assistant referees do not make decisions. In the Laws of the Game assistant referees have a list of six duties, all of which basically say that they must indicate certain situations to the referee but they are all ‘subject to the decision of the referee’. In other words it is the referee who makes the decision. .....................Click here for full article |
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Appeared 11th January 2012
THE FA BREAK THEIR APPEALS RULE FOR ROONEY
Appeared 18th January 2012
WHO SHOULD BE BLAMED IF A REFEREE IS DECEIVED? The phenomenon of Twitter seems to have become an addiction with many professional footballers; I suppose they have plenty of spare time. National newspapers therefore are able to gain access and publish their thoughts. I’m not sure what you call people who spread their views by twitter? I know they are said to tweet but does this make them a tweeter or should it be a twitterer. One of the most prolific footballers is QPRs Joey Barton, who is usually keen to let his followers and anyone at large learn about his sometimes controversial thoughts on a wide range of subjects. What was occupying his mind recently was his sending off against Norwich,............Go to Full Article Appeared 25th January 2012
DIFFERENT TYPES OF BRAVERY ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD
A couple of Sunday’s ago on BBC’s Match of the Day 2, the pundits were discussing Swansea City’s win against Arsenal and they praised the bravery of Brendon Roger’s players. There were, they said, different types of bravery in football. There those players who would get stuck in and battle for every ball and then there were those like the Swansea players who would stick to their passing game, despite all provocation to do otherwise. Perhaps ‘commendable’ would be a better word than brave as I never rate footballers with bravery when compared with people like firemen who risk their very lives entering burning buildings or the troops in Afghanistan who never know whether they will return from their next patrol or with all their limbs still intact........Go to full article
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Regular
readers of this column may remember at the beginning of the season I
wrote about the introduction by the FA of new suspension rules for
players sent off. The idea was that players at all levels of the
game would be subjected to the same length of suspension for the
same category of offences. This apparently was in response to
complaints from clubs in the lower reaches of the game, that their
players were often punished by longer suspension periods that those
in the professional game after committing the same offence. One such
offence was that of violent conduct, which is not unnaturally,
considered as one of the worst offences. It’s just worth reiterating
exactly what violent conduct is.
