For field hockey umpires, by field hockey umpires
A slide tackle brings down the ball carrier running freely through an extremely dangerous area of the pitch as the time in the quarter is winding down. The 10-minute yellow card must be issued in these situations.
Notice the area of the pitch where this defender chooses to commit a lazy, “oops sorry” stick tackle from behind. Although innocent in appearance, the break stops what was a productive run by the attack, just in front of the 23m line. A green card is shown.
The play moves into the high left corner for the supporting umpire/far deep corner for the controlling umpire. The support moves up very high and close to the opposite back-line in order to assist with decisions blocked from the control, like the ball exiting the court over the back-line as it does here.
The umpire stops time to send a calming message to the player that when he’s unsighted, it’ll take a moment to get the message through the radio to get to the correct decision. The game had been (surprisingly) well-tempered towards the umpires to this point, so this is an excellent time to maintain a hold…
A common positioning mistake is for umpires to get caught ball-watching on difficult decisions like aerials. Without knowing exactly where she began at the 15m free hit, it’s likely the umpire a too high at the outset. This may be partially due to the play going predominantly in her partner’s direction up during Q1 and…
After the penalty corner breaks down and a free hit defence is awarded for a dangerous ball inside the circle, the ball drifts to the opposite side of the circle and a (former) defender attempts to take the free hit quickly from there. Had this ball been taken that wide but from inside the circle,…
