.....about eight minutes from full time there was a collision between a Palace forward and Sunderland defender Omar Alderete which ended up with our defender injured.I sit behind the North Stand goal where the incident occurred and whilst it looked like a flailing arm or hand it was purely unintentional when the contact came.
Alderete lay on the pitch for a few seconds and the referee waved on our physio however what happened then was the player got up and pointed at his lower jaw and cheek area where the contact had taken place and he didn't need treatment.
The referee insisted he had a head injury and made him leave the field of play even though he jogged off without any assistance however this left us one man down for thirty seconds.
What a silly silly thing to do by the referee.
Once the referee authorises treatment the player has to go off, it doesn't matter whether any treatment actually occurs.
.........but the player himself indicated he wasn't injured at all.
What is Robert Jones. A high quality referee or a medical professional ?
Going to have to ask the obvious question, but if he wasn't injured why was he on the floor holding his head?
.....about eight minutes from full time there was a collision between a Palace forward and Sunderland defender Omar Alderete which ended up with our defender injured.I sit behind the North Stand goal where the incident occurred and whilst it looked like a flailing arm or hand it was purely unintentional when the contact came.
Alderete lay on the pitch for a few seconds and the referee waved on our physio however what happened then was the player got up and pointed at his lower jaw and cheek area where the contact had taken place and he didn't need treatment.
The referee insisted he had a head injury and made him leave the field of play even though he jogged off without any assistance however this left us one man down for thirty seconds.
"Alderete lay on the pitch for a few seconds and the referee waved on our physio however what happened then was the player got up and pointed at his lower jaw and cheek area where the contact had taken place"
What a silly silly thing to do by the referee.
Once the referee authorises treatment the player has to go off, it doesn't matter whether any treatment actually occurs.
.........but the player himself indicated he wasn't injured at all.
What is Robert Jones. A high quality referee or a medical professional ?
So the player was down with a potential facial injury? That requires professional medical aseessment. That means he is going off the field of play for at least 30 seconds. If he was not requiring treatment, why did he stay down? Its only an educated guess, but could it have been an attempt to gain an unfair advantage by feigning injury?
edited to fix quote thingamajigga, bmb
As said already we aren’t medical professionals so what’s to say, what I will say though every game there are collisions which are painful then a few seconds later players get up, you can 100% defend it in the laws of the game but when someone with the player is indicating he doesn’t need treatment at the same time someone 15-20 yards away decides they do it isn’t the best look.
If he was worried about time wasting he could have managed it the same way I’ve managed it throughout the match and how it is managed in the premier league these days stand there and just point to the watch
I'm assuming you are not a referee, as if you were you would know that the immediate priority if you see a player down holding their head is to get treatment onto them. If you are a referee you seriously need to rethink your priorities.
Ok then so Stuart atwell who allowed a Tottenham to counter attack the other week with a player down holding their head on the edge of their box needs to rethink his priorities as well.
Michael Oliver (Man Utd v Liverpool) as well as many other premier league refs as well. You also defended Oliver for making a “judgement call” seems like you’re a bit inconsistent on the issue
I’ve also only said it doesn’t look great not that it was wrong, I also don’t think it’s outrageous to say someone on the scene probably has a better understanding of what’s going on than someone a distance away, what part of that is controversial?
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