What to look for in a foul

[CecilOne]

Good coverage Nevada, especially providing criteria without eliminating subjectivity.
My similar question would be about dealing keeper-protection complaints whne the keeper initiates the contact or when the keeper is guilty of what would be a DK foul for anyone else.

[Eastshire]

On the keeper protection question, here is an incident from a game last fall. Freshman boys under Fed. The keeper collected a pass that went long with the attacker 5 to 10 yards out. The attacker continued his charge and the keeper brought his knee up in a protective position, and in my opinion the attacker hit himself on the keeper's knee (and injured himself thereby). I received some complaints for not calling a foul on the keeper, but in my opinion the attacker had plenty of oppertunity to pull up.

In fact, I had already spoken to the attacking team for charging at the keeper while he had posession. I would have given a yellow card had he not been injured.

What do you think of how I handled this?

[refnrev]

I've gotta go with you on this one. From what you described you got it right.