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Message: [QUOTE="DarthGrumpy, post: 3719652, member: 2141"] When referring teenage boys, Red Card for after-the-whistle scrums is at last a monthly occurrence from a player kicking out at a player or pushing a player down after a meeting of the minds to an all-out brawl. They're all written down as Violent Conduct. With Picford, if the if the play was ongoing, i.e. the offsides was not called, it absolutely qualifies as a Serious Foul Play [I]Serious Foul Play: A [B]tackle or challenge that endangers the safety of an opponent[/B] or uses excessive force or brutality must be sanctioned as serious foul play. Any [B]player who lunges at an opponent in challenging for the ball from the front, from the side or from behind using one or both legs, with excessive force or endangers the safety of an opponent is guilty of serious foul play[/B]. [/I] If in the judgement of the Referee and/or Linesman, the play had ended due to the offisides call and therefore Pickford was not challenging for the ball (talk about semantics in a split second), it still fist the bill as Violent Conduct, which in the spirit of the game is intended to protect players. Violent Conduct: When a [B]player uses or attempts to use excessive force or brutality against an opponent when not challenging for the ball[/B], or against a team-mate, team official, match official, spectator or any other person, regardless of whether contact is made. [/QUOTE]