Member of the Judicial Commission of Experts (CES) RFS extension Nikolai Levnikov said the commission unanimously acknowledged that the referee of the 22nd round match RPL between “Spartak” and “Dynamo” had to remove the striker Alexandra Soboleva for unsportsmanlike conduct.
Not even that the referee had formal grounds for the expulsion, but from the point of view of the referee’s authority, from the point of view of the rules of the game, such behavior is unacceptable on the football field. It damages the image of the game and greatly reduces the authority of the entire judging community. The commission also unanimously recognized that here the referee at one point had to first show a yellow card to Sobolev for the first unsportsmanlike behavior, and then for inappropriate behavior towards the referee, it was necessary to show a second card yellow and remove the Spartak Player from the field.
