Quote: Ok, thanks and H3 seems to have jumbled thing together. Carding a player for contacting a keeper is very common in open field play, but in a crowd in the box on the ground with ball not in control it is harder to get a ref to stop play, not saying it should not have been carded but my son had his hand stomped in the box trying to corral a loose ball, no card, two broken fingers but no card. Got to ask yourself; Had it been the Clover keeper hit by the Lancaster striker would you want a card? If your player was trying to get a loose ball in the box and Lancaster keeper was stepped on would you be calling for a card for player safety?
As a friend to several of the clover parents, I can tell you the striker did not hit the goalie. The goalie came out of the box for the ball and the striker was going for the ball and jumped over the keeper. The keeper left for a minute, as well the striker, and game back in before the striker who came back pretty quick as well. As far as the clover keeper. She was in TOTAL control of the ball and the lancaster striker kicked the ball out of her hands and stomped on her arms and then it went in. No card, no call against the lancaster team and did not even check on the clover goalie at all. There was NO scramble for the ball, nor was it 3 yards out. And I believe what H3ad3rs is trying to say is that at the end of the game the referee was by the ambulance to find out the injured players jersey number and gave her a yellow card for rushing the goalie, hence the 4 cards. Until today we all knew about the 3, so he was trying to cover himself.
