In my last post, I stated that I called a DOGSO PK and therefore the person committing the foul got only a yellow instead of a red card. I misspoke in a way because had that person used a push, shirt tug, or other already illegal method of stopping the player, it would have been a red card anyway. This is where I think that people are going to be a lot of confusion. I suspect that most referees will treat any DOGSO PK as a yellow and misapply the rules.
The rules state that you can commit a DOGSO PK foul and still be sent off if you handle the ball, or push, pull or do not or cannot play the ball with the tackle. In those cases, instead of a yellow, it should be a red card.
This may cause us to just go with yellow in the box, red outside, but it is much more nuanced than that. It will take some time, I believe, to have this trickle down to everyone.
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Monday, September 12, 2016
New DOGSO
Before I comment on the new DOGSO and my brush with it early in the new rule process, let me start by asking, where have all the referees gone? This weekend, which was the start of many leagues as well as State Cup, was brutal. My son had a center and two ARs that probably could even get a learner's permit in the state of Virginia. And that game was covered at least.
Ok, back to the DOGSO chat. As mentioned last week, the laws were altered a bit to reflect the need to eliminate the triple whammy when there is a denial of a clear chance to score and the foul was committed in the penalty area and resulted in a PK. If in your eternal wisdom, you believe there was an honest attempt to play the ball, but it resulted in a foul and not the result of pushing, pulling, handling or some other ill conceived attempt, then after the whistle, the person who committed the foul should be shown a yellow instead of a red if inside the penalty area. No change outside the penalty area, the red card is still shown in these cases.
The Labor Day weekend, I worked 6 matches. 2 centers and 4 ARs. And I got very lucky. My 4 ARs had the final scores of 6-0, 6-0, 9-0 and 6-0. My 2 centers nestled in those 4 lopsided matches were 3-1 and 5-3. Both very evenly matched and challenging in their own right. The first match, on Saturday was a U15 match. The game was not a hard match to call until the moment of truth. With White up 2-1 they were playing a very high line in their defense. It was something I couldn't really grasp why they were pressing so hard with the lead. The only way Red was generating chances was when white messed up their possession in the defense, so I wasn't too sure why white insisted in having their back line so far away from their keeper. Sure enough, with 10 minutes left in the second half, white lost the ball and red put a nice through ball to an attacker who outran the defender for a clear one on one chance with the white keeper the only defender standing in her way from tying up the match. The white keeper had been playing at the edge of her 18 all game since she had to clear a couple of balls before. She sprints out and the attacker and keeper meet about 25 yards from goal. The attacker makes a great cut to her left and the keeper sticks her leg out. She misses the ball and trips the attacker. Clear attempt to play the ball, but sadly, outside the box, and therefore a red card. It ended up working out in the end for white as the free kick resulted in nothing and then white ended up scoring an insurance goal.
In my other game, it was a U18 boys match. With the match 2-2, blue makes a great string of passes on white and leaves the blue attacker essentially one on one with the white keeper. As blue is about to take the shot with his right foot, a defender came in from the left, went through the attackers legs to get to the ball. It was a tough call in my head but I felt the attempt was "honest enough" where he tried to play the ball, albeit in a low percentage type tackle. It was still DOGSO but inside the box and it resulted in a PK, so I showed the yellow. In truth, I really didn't think it was that much of a DOGSO choice until a referee observer told me that he thought my new interpretation of the DOGSO was spot on. Funny how things work out like that sometimes.
Ok, back to the DOGSO chat. As mentioned last week, the laws were altered a bit to reflect the need to eliminate the triple whammy when there is a denial of a clear chance to score and the foul was committed in the penalty area and resulted in a PK. If in your eternal wisdom, you believe there was an honest attempt to play the ball, but it resulted in a foul and not the result of pushing, pulling, handling or some other ill conceived attempt, then after the whistle, the person who committed the foul should be shown a yellow instead of a red if inside the penalty area. No change outside the penalty area, the red card is still shown in these cases.
The Labor Day weekend, I worked 6 matches. 2 centers and 4 ARs. And I got very lucky. My 4 ARs had the final scores of 6-0, 6-0, 9-0 and 6-0. My 2 centers nestled in those 4 lopsided matches were 3-1 and 5-3. Both very evenly matched and challenging in their own right. The first match, on Saturday was a U15 match. The game was not a hard match to call until the moment of truth. With White up 2-1 they were playing a very high line in their defense. It was something I couldn't really grasp why they were pressing so hard with the lead. The only way Red was generating chances was when white messed up their possession in the defense, so I wasn't too sure why white insisted in having their back line so far away from their keeper. Sure enough, with 10 minutes left in the second half, white lost the ball and red put a nice through ball to an attacker who outran the defender for a clear one on one chance with the white keeper the only defender standing in her way from tying up the match. The white keeper had been playing at the edge of her 18 all game since she had to clear a couple of balls before. She sprints out and the attacker and keeper meet about 25 yards from goal. The attacker makes a great cut to her left and the keeper sticks her leg out. She misses the ball and trips the attacker. Clear attempt to play the ball, but sadly, outside the box, and therefore a red card. It ended up working out in the end for white as the free kick resulted in nothing and then white ended up scoring an insurance goal.
In my other game, it was a U18 boys match. With the match 2-2, blue makes a great string of passes on white and leaves the blue attacker essentially one on one with the white keeper. As blue is about to take the shot with his right foot, a defender came in from the left, went through the attackers legs to get to the ball. It was a tough call in my head but I felt the attempt was "honest enough" where he tried to play the ball, albeit in a low percentage type tackle. It was still DOGSO but inside the box and it resulted in a PK, so I showed the yellow. In truth, I really didn't think it was that much of a DOGSO choice until a referee observer told me that he thought my new interpretation of the DOGSO was spot on. Funny how things work out like that sometimes.
Friday, September 9, 2016
New Stuff
It has been a while and for that I apologize. I have not been as diligent in writing, not because I don't have material, but rather, life seems to get in the way. One child is a senior, another a freshman and one starting Kindergarten so things were hectic these last couple of months.
So all this new stuff is hitting us since we last talked. Kickoffs can go backwards, new uniforms and you can't score on yourself off of a corner anymore. Where is the fun in all of this? Seriously, the things that matter most are the new uniforms. They look better, but the change in logo means we have to change EVERYTHING? I have 10 shirts, 3 pairs of shorts, countless pairs of socks (that initially don't change, thankfully) and a myriad of other USSF logoed things. I calculated the cost of my entire wardrobe change will be in the $350-$400 range. And being a grade 6, you kind of are expected to have Official Sports, and only Official Sports gear. Gee thanks. At least we can use the old stuff for another couple of years, but again, as a 6, I will be expected to buy the new gear sooner rather than later. Not cool.
Moving on to the new rules, I have read a couple of posts on the new rules and have the new IFAB document that has the new rules incorporated. The link is here: http://www.theifab.com/#!/document. The new rules have a lot of common sense in them. Everyone used to tap the ball forward on kickoffs to have the second touch go backwards towards their midfielders 90% of the time, so why not eliminate the silly rule that the kick off had to go forward? It makes sense. I like it. There are a number of other rule changes as well. Fouls outside the field of play are now not a dropped ball if the ball was in play at the time. Just like that, there are a bunch of others. I do want to focus on the one that does affect us the most in terms of determining the outcome of a game, and that is the new DOGSO-F interpretation.
Before I go any further, I have NOT attended a new rules class (mostly because I was out of town the week that it was offered before the season started) so please understand that this is my possibly misguided interpretation of what the rules are. Don't take this as fact but rather as my initial interpretation.
With regards to DOGSO-F, the way I interpret it now is that the law makers decided to remove the so called triple whammy. That is, foul as last defender that denies obvious goal scoring opportunity inside the penalty area used to cause the following:
- Penalty kick called against the team committing the foul which as a high chance of being converted
- Red card for the defender
- Next game sit out for the defender
Now if there is a foul where the defender meets the criteria of committing a DOGSO-F foul and is genuinely trying to play the ball (not shoving, pulling the shirt, etc.) and the foul is committed inside the penalty area, then the card to show is a yellow. If it is outside of the penalty area, then it is still a red. This changes things quite a bit, in terms of considerations for the referee as now there is a change in thought process until we all get used to the new laws.
In my next article, I will speak to the last two centers where I had to apply DOGSO-F in each of them.
So all this new stuff is hitting us since we last talked. Kickoffs can go backwards, new uniforms and you can't score on yourself off of a corner anymore. Where is the fun in all of this? Seriously, the things that matter most are the new uniforms. They look better, but the change in logo means we have to change EVERYTHING? I have 10 shirts, 3 pairs of shorts, countless pairs of socks (that initially don't change, thankfully) and a myriad of other USSF logoed things. I calculated the cost of my entire wardrobe change will be in the $350-$400 range. And being a grade 6, you kind of are expected to have Official Sports, and only Official Sports gear. Gee thanks. At least we can use the old stuff for another couple of years, but again, as a 6, I will be expected to buy the new gear sooner rather than later. Not cool.
Moving on to the new rules, I have read a couple of posts on the new rules and have the new IFAB document that has the new rules incorporated. The link is here: http://www.theifab.com/#!/document. The new rules have a lot of common sense in them. Everyone used to tap the ball forward on kickoffs to have the second touch go backwards towards their midfielders 90% of the time, so why not eliminate the silly rule that the kick off had to go forward? It makes sense. I like it. There are a number of other rule changes as well. Fouls outside the field of play are now not a dropped ball if the ball was in play at the time. Just like that, there are a bunch of others. I do want to focus on the one that does affect us the most in terms of determining the outcome of a game, and that is the new DOGSO-F interpretation.
Before I go any further, I have NOT attended a new rules class (mostly because I was out of town the week that it was offered before the season started) so please understand that this is my possibly misguided interpretation of what the rules are. Don't take this as fact but rather as my initial interpretation.
With regards to DOGSO-F, the way I interpret it now is that the law makers decided to remove the so called triple whammy. That is, foul as last defender that denies obvious goal scoring opportunity inside the penalty area used to cause the following:
- Penalty kick called against the team committing the foul which as a high chance of being converted
- Red card for the defender
- Next game sit out for the defender
Now if there is a foul where the defender meets the criteria of committing a DOGSO-F foul and is genuinely trying to play the ball (not shoving, pulling the shirt, etc.) and the foul is committed inside the penalty area, then the card to show is a yellow. If it is outside of the penalty area, then it is still a red. This changes things quite a bit, in terms of considerations for the referee as now there is a change in thought process until we all get used to the new laws.
In my next article, I will speak to the last two centers where I had to apply DOGSO-F in each of them.
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