Good Evening!

After seeing the Watford player receive a red card I was wondering what is the punishment and how is it administered?
With teams fielding “squad” players, how do they serve a match ban. How do they miss a game they wouldn’t have featured in anyway, how is the punishment actually served?
Who decides which is the players “next” game if he isn’t a regular player?

Any ideas?

Phil in Northampton

phil_in_npton wrote:Good Evening!

After seeing the Watford player receive a red card I was wondering what is the punishment and how is it administered?
With teams fielding “squad” players, how do they serve a match ban. How do they miss a game they wouldn’t have featured in anyway, how is the punishment actually served?
Who decides which is the players “next” game if he isn’t a regular player?

Any ideas?

Phil in Northampton

Just read this on the Sun website:
".....changes this season will see yellow cards only counting in the competition they are received.
Red cards will continue to count across all competitions"

Well that's a bit misleading, as red cards didn't count across all competitions last season. EFL Trophy cards had their own bubble.

Interesting point Phil.In this instance it merely ended any hope they might have had of getting back into the game.We should have had a penalty for handball in the first few minutes,Breakspear was looking right at it so how he didn’t give it....Their penalty looked extremely soft to me but no one argued too much.

A Maldon player got a red card at Orient in the FA Cup last season but still played against us in the next round, I think they treated straight reds differently from two yellows.

To be fair I struggled to spot our pen last night, thought Watford's was more obvious.

I couldn't tell what happened for ours although the defender who promptly went into outraged shock looked to be the one who ballsed up for our third.

Watford's pen seemed to be given for their player doing a slide tackle on himself. I couldn't see an offence committed.

Thinking about it, if you have a separate disciplinary system in a knock-out competition it could take years to serve a three-match ban.

George Street-Bridge wrote:A Maldon player got a red card at Orient in the FA Cup last season but still played against us in the next round, I think they treated straight reds differently from two yellows.

To be fair I struggled to spot our pen last night, thought Watford's was more obvious.

It was off camera at the far post, our player ( Shepherd? ) was held, probably spotted by lino. I thought theirs was soft, he pushed the ball past our player and then ran into him was my impression.

It was a good spot from the ref tbh definitely red that could have been nasty if he caught him in nose area