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[Albion] You're the ref: Veltman v Rice

You're the ref: Veltman v Rice

  • No card to either player

    Votes: 99 17.4%
  • No card for Veltman; yellow card for Rice

    Votes: 255 44.7%
  • Yellow card for Veltman; nothing for Rice

    Votes: 13 2.3%
  • Yellow card for both players

    Votes: 118 20.7%
  • No card for Veltman; red card for Rice

    Votes: 37 6.5%
  • Red card for Veltman; nothing for Rice

    Votes: 3 0.5%
  • Red card for Veltman; yellow card for Rice

    Votes: 4 0.7%
  • Yellow card for Veltman; red card for Rice

    Votes: 36 6.3%
  • Red card for both players

    Votes: 5 0.9%

  • Total voters
    570


AZ Gull

@SeagullsAcademy @seagullsacademy.bsky.social
Oct 14, 2003
13,092
Chandler, AZ
The issue is the lack of consistency. We’d have been furious if it was given the other way.

Do I think Veltman did anything wrong? No, not in the slightest.

Did Rice do something that deserved a yellow? Barely. If that’s a yellow, we may as well all pack up our bags now.
Why? It's a deliberate act to prevent a free-kick being taken by the opposition. It's a yellow card.
 










Mr deez

Masterchef
Jan 13, 2005
3,542
But who was he kicking the ball to? I really don't think Veltman was actually taking the free-kick and passing it to a teammate. He knew exactly what he was doing.
That may be true but does that make a difference? If Rice hadn't broken the rules it wouldn't have happened. Veltman was within his rights to play the free kick, it just so happens he opted to do so quickly.

Yes there's gamesmanship at play but nothing more serious than players 'winning' free kicks by going down softly when they could play on.

Rice knows the rules and knows he broke them, there's no surprise.
 




sussex_guy2k2

Well-known member
Jun 6, 2014
4,079
Why? It's a deliberate act to prevent a free-kick being taken by the opposition. It's a yellow card.
He barely moved the ball. And stuff like that happens minimum 3-4 times a game. He could’ve legitimately argued he just tried to knock it backwards to Veltman.

Anyway, it’s a difference of opinion. I get why the decision was made, but I don’t agree with it, and it leaves far too much to interpretation. And it could lead to a lot of games being turned by innocuous things like this.
 




Littlemo

Well-known member
Aug 25, 2022
1,697
Tbh I would have just had a word and told them both to stop being knobs. No cards. Let’s face it it’s a soft yellow for Rice, not worth being a yellow for a sending off as players do it all the time. I’d be utterly raging if one of our players were sent off for that.

Veltman was more a yellow for me, but if I were letting Rice off I’d let him off as well. He didn’t actually make much contact with Rice anyway.

Probably why I’m not a ref 🤣
 




sussex_guy2k2

Well-known member
Jun 6, 2014
4,079
Surely about 95% of refereeing is interpretation.
Absolutely. And the referee in this instance interpreted this one way, interpreted Joao’s kick away a different way. One led to a yellow that led to a red that left Arsenal 1-0 down. Inconsistency of interpretation.

As I said, if this was the other way around, we’d be furious.
 


























Surrey Phil

Well-known member
Aug 3, 2010
1,531
I haven’t read the entire thread but why wasn’t Pedro given a yellow card for his version of kicking the ball away?
Because the ball went into touch and we’ve now got multi ball, so an Arsenal player could have just taken a thrown in with another ball. Rice’s booking was for preventing us taking a quick free kick which the new rules this season are designed to clamp down on!
 




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