That ref was properly terrible. Booking the guy for talking to the assistant (OK I couldn't hear what he was saying) but he wasn't in his face or anything and then before the pen is taken the blue no 10 has his hands on the Woking lads neck - told to stop it but no further action and then book the keeper for coming off his line when the penalty clearly wasn't about to be taken. I imagine it could be used as an exam question at ref school - Apart from getting the original penalty decision wrong, what did he do wrong here?
'Comments are disabled for this video' I can't think why!
I doubt he was enquiring as to the linesman's wellbeing, so a caution for dissent was (probably) justified- the letter of the law could probably have seen him earn a dismissal for Offensive, Abusive and Insulting language but I have never seen that given.
The pre-penalty 'jostling' is similar to corners- penalise one, you have to do the lot.
Why shouldn't the keeper be booked? What reason does he have to do to amble 12 yards off his line, pick the ball up and have a chat to the taker?
And if you watched the clip again, you'll see it was actually the linesman who 'gave' the penalty (although using the old penalty signal)
It was the speed of the first booking - the card was out of the pocket before the bloke was within 5 yards of the assistant but you may be quite right he may have instantly said more than players usually do to officials in those couple of seconds.
The penalty jostling is not the same as corners. I got the number wrong it's the number 6 that has his hands on the neck of an opponent (6:25). I accept that the keeper could get booked but my point was that the ref didn't deal with the 'jostling' choosing instead to book the keeper for the much more serious offence of picking up a dead ball.
I take the point on the linesman giving the decision - I didn't notice that first time. It would be interesting to see if he gave the original foul, if so it was a late call or if he reacted to the ref blowing for the freekick and was simply indicating that if there was an offence it took place in the area. Actually it wouldn't be interesting at all ......
Several players acted like idiots, as did members of the crowd and their stewards don't appear to be as on the ball as ours, I think we can all agree on that!