Guys, Thanks again for the replies. I wish to keep learning.

Before the game I inspected each team, and asked them to remove any jewelry. During the 1st half I noticed a player wearing a necklace. I cautioned him with a yellow card, and sent him to the side line to remove the necklace. Was this the correct decision?

Ray

That would be a very correct thing to do by the letter of the law.

Did you caution him for unsporting behaviour or dissent? Either one would have been valid.

I quite possibly would not have cautioned the guy depending on the league. I only ask seniors once with that sort of stuff but juniors I tend to show a little more leniancy.

Walko at 06:42AM on Jun 21, 2009

That would be a very correct thing to do by the letter of the law.

Did you caution him for unsporting behaviour or dissent? Either one would have been valid.

I quite possibly would not have cautioned the guy depending on the league. I only ask seniors once with that sort of stuff but juniors I tend to show a little more leniancy.

Andrew,

Thanks for the reply. Haven't seen you for a while, can not get to training.

Hope you and your wife are well - baby here soon.

Ray

Walko at 06:42AM on Jun 21, 2009

That would be a very correct thing to do by the letter of the law.

Did you caution him for unsporting behaviour or dissent? Either one would have been valid.

I quite possibly would not have cautioned the guy depending on the league. I only ask seniors once with that sort of stuff but juniors I tend to show a little more leniancy.

Walko why should you be leniant towards juniors.The laws of the game do not tell us to caution only senior players or caution a player depending on what league they are in. Walko it makes it hard if you let a player off with no caution and then the very next week the same player wears it again and this time gets cautioned. Then the ref gets told " But the ref last week let me wear it" I think we all need to try an enforce the laws of the game equally. If we are going to caution a player for wearing jewellery then we ALL have to caution players that wear it regardless of what league or what age group.

Not an attack on you just i was told the very same thing for basically doing what you do lol.

Hi Vince,

Wearing of jewelery is not a cautionable offence. I am not implying leniency towards the wearing of jewelery, but rather the decision about whether you caution players for it or not.

You could go down the line of saying that the player deliberately disregarded your instruction to remove the item in which case, you could caution him/her for dissent by word or action.

It has been my experience though that especially the younger junior players wouldn't be showing dissent but that in many cases it is an honest mistake. I think cautioning for dissent in this case is overkill and possibly getting a little card-happy. Merely sending the player to the sideline to correct their equipment and having them wait a moment to return should do the job sufficiently in this case.

Seniors and older juniors I would argue are different. In this case, if you have asked them to remove jewelery, you MIGHT consider a caution if you believed they were seeking to deliberately disobey your instruction.

I am not implying we go lenient on jewelery, just on carding for what is quite possibly an honest mistake.

Andrew