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Red Card Sanctions

John Munro

What do other leagues do in respect of red card sanctions?

In the Oxfordshire Walking Football League, we play rounds of fixtures once a month and a player receiving a red card is (a) banned for the rest of the games that day and (b) also banned from the next 2 rounds of games. 

However, standard County FA rules for 'regular' football normally dictate a 2 'match' ban.  We consider a 2 'match' ban equates to our 2 rounds, as if we had to strictly comply with the word 'matches' a player could then potentially turn up at the very next round of games, sit out the first two games and then play in the remain matches that day - hardly a great deterent!

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  • Well, we have now had our reply from Oxfordshire FA and that is that if they suspend a player for 3 matches it has to be just that - 3 short games, so if a team has 5 games in an afternoon, the player can take part in the last two. 

    When I challenged it and asked where the advice came from, the response was:-

    "The answer came from Sporting Integrity Matters who are the discipline administrators for the OFA and a lot of other counties and as such apply The FA regulations"

    Really thinkmit is time for the FA to get on top of this and realise that round-robin events made up of short 15-20 min games are simply not the same as traditional single fixtures of 90 mins!

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  • Well, we have now had our reply from Oxfordshire FA and that is that if they suspend a player for 3 matches it has to be just that - 3 short games, so if a team has 5 games in an afternoon, the player can take part in the last two. 

    When I challenged it and asked where the advice came from, the response was:-

    "The answer came from Sporting Integrity Matters who are the discipline administrators for the OFA and a lot of other counties and as such apply The FA regulations"

    Really thinkmit is time for the FA to get on top of this and realise that round-robin events made up of short 15-20 min games are simply not the same as traditional single fixtures of 90 mins!

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