We will examine two offside decisions from one of the State Cup finals game this fall. For both clips, we assume that the player in question was in an offside position. Also, turn up the volume. Here is Clip 1. A CAP City player kicked the...
This week, we will discuss something simple. It is about non-value adding gestures. First, we will go back to the basics. What does the law book say about gestures? In the law book (Practical Guidelines), gestrues for the referee are cover under "body language." When does the...
We will focus on positioning this week. As we know, positioning and movement are usually low priority when it comes to evaluation. But when incorrect positioning is blatant and/or repeated, it can affect one's score. Even if it does not affect one's score, it may...
We will continue to discuss correct, incorrect, and supportable. We will first review two red card incidents from a professional game to discuss a few concepts and then apply it to an incident from a college match from about a month ago. Here is the first...