Paul McKeon's Observer

Ref .... Can i just run something by you ?

Just say for example that a player ... any player, [SIZE=1]pick one out of the hat [/SIZE] .... Say George O'Callaghan.

Just say he is on the pitch playing a game, getting on with it ... looking for the points and a ref ..... any ref [SIZE=1]pick one out of the hat [/SIZE] .... Say Jim O'Neill.

Just say he was reffing and during the course of the game, he kept repeatedly saying to the player, in this example GO'C, "You think you are the man dont you .... you think your great dont you, i'll soften your cough for you" or words to that effect. And during the course of this game, the ref handed out two yellows to this player, resulting in him being sent off. A desicion that, in this example would even confuse the opposing fans.

Just say .... for example if something like that happened, just say a slim chance that took place .... what comeback does that player have.

Does he have a leg to stand on ??

adding to afaces totally hypothetical example

say just say it happened in a ground made up 99% of away fans who howled for murder at every city challenge.. and say that after the game you go around and ask ppl hypothetically why they thought this hypothetical player say GOC to contuinue the example was sent off and NO-BODY knew, not the player / team manager fans from either of the hypothetical teams..including a great many of the home fans who were as baffled by some of this hypothetical ref's decisions.... and not for the 1st time either..

well hypothetically speaking :) of course,

i heard a very similar hypothetical story from Eanna whilst watching the Cork City v UL game in UL yesterday.

(hasten to add i just about got out of Limerick alive.)

in Eanna's hypothetical story the hypothetical manager had a real go at the assessor (hes not hypothetical) over the incident.

the question posed by A Face is Does he have a leg to stand on ??

the hypothetical problem lies with the league's rules here as Pat Dolan has stated.

2 yellows and you're out of the next game. when the next game is not even two full working days away theres not a lot that can be done.

anyway you can't appeal a suspension for 2 yellows in most competitions so i can't see it coming in here.

a referee can as far as i know rescind a yellow if he so wishes but that didn't happen here.

if the ref was winding the player up then thats not on but players do say things afterwards to deflect blame from themselves.

as i said to Eanna, a lot of referees talk to players all the way through games or just to certain players to make sure players know that the referee is there and awake.

i do it all the time!

probably nothing more than that.