To all Referees, Club Managers, Secretaries and Players of the Strathclyde Saturday Morning League.
A point was recently raised by one of our member clubs at the last league meeting as to how Referees would approach the new guideline brought in by The Scottish Amateur Football Association and indeed where teams now stand with the situation.
The new guideline brought in by The Scottish Amateur Football Association to their Disciplinary Procedures was in the instance that two players were to confront each other . The SAFA have divided these situations into two categories – “eyeball to eyeball confrontation” and “head to head confrontation”.
Please note that this new SAFA guideline does NOT change anything with regard to the way a Referee should now construe this instance in a match as to how he construed the instance in seasons bygone. This is because the guideline is NOT an update to Law 12: Fouls and Misconduct by the International Football Association Board but a guideline ONLY to The Scottish Amateur Football Association’s own disciplinary procedures when they are determining the punishment in Violent Conduct disciplinary cases.
