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Ok, here is a situation that happened last night in an Ohio high school varsity game.
Team Black (TB) was awarded a corner kick. The Center Referee (CR) was standing next to the goal looking toward the players as they were coming into the goal area when the ball is kicked. At the time of the kick, he noticed that a defending Team White (TW) player flagrantly threw a TB player around him by basically headlocking the TB player and tossing him aside. However, the ball that was kicked was not played in the TB player's direction that was fouled so it didn't have any effect on the corner kick play. The AR was on the far side of the field and didn't see the interaction at all. Anyway, the ball was cleared away and play resumed. About a minute or two later, when play stopped for another foul, the CR stopped the clock and went back to the TW player who fouled the TB player during the corner kick and gave him a yellow card for that action and sent him off the field.
There was a discussion at halftime that that was the incorrect procedure, that you can't go back and caution a player if you don't call a foul on him. The point was made that if it was worthy of a caution, then the foul should have been called immediately and a penalty kick should have been awarded. The disagreeing point was that the foul had no bearing on the play and that, although the foul was unsportsmanlike, it should not constitute stoppage of play to award a penalty kick when the play didn't involve either players. Needless to say, the game ended in a 0-0 tie.
My question to all of you is what is the right decision for this action? Should a penalty kick have been awarded? Can a caution be given later in the match for a previous foul that didn't affect play?
Interested to hear your opinions.
[Edited by phatneff on Sep 28th, 2005 at 10:39 AM]
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