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Luke Gleave |
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March 16 |
Christian Rose |
Several times during the match this player was asked to keep his emotions in check and not make personal degrading remarks at the officiating crew. It did not matter if it was the assistant referee or the center referee calling fouls, Luke would show his complete displeasure by loudly and verbally disagreeing with the calls that were being made. Several verbal warnings were made to Luke to stop his personal public comments. My goal was to manage the player through verbal communication telling him stop rather than issuing a caution.
During the 36 minute in the second half, the assistant referee raised his flag. I talked with the assistant referee away from play, and I was instructed by the assistant referee that a Springville player needed to be cautioned for telling the assistant referee the foul he just called was a bullshit foul. As I was seeking out the player to issue the caution, Luke who was not involved with the situation, came running over to where I was showing his teammate the caution, and in a loud public voice launched into a tirade degrading the officiating team, and publicly further undermining the authority of the officiating crew.
In my opinion the issuing of the yellow card to his teammate had nothing to do with Luke. When Luke ran to the spot where the caution was being shown to his teammate,
he involved himself using targeted, personal, undermining language and he needed to be sent off. Section 8 article 2b states use of word or act to incite or degrade an opposing player, coach referee or other individual. |
