The Disciplinary Commission announced that it has opened an investigation into the events that took place in the Atlas vs America match. This is based “on the provisions of Articles 74, 84 and 85 of the Sanctions Regulation,” the statement said. But these cited articles do not speak of “misalignment,” as anyone would think, but of “manifest arbitration error,” and how to make the request for investigation.
Article 74 says the following: It is the competence of the Disciplinary Commission:
a) Correct, at the request of a side, THE COMMON ERRORS IN WHICH THE REFEREE MAY MAKE THEIR disciplinary decisions.
For the purpose of this rule, a manifestly incorrect decision by the umpire is when it is shown that the umpire, as a result of a foul, has penalized a wrong player with exclusion from the field of play, or made a wrong decision that is obvious seriously related to a direct and / or indirect removal of the Red Card. Likewise, the Disciplinary Commission can correct material calculation errors at any time.
Obvious errors made by the referee to the detriment of the club’s interests may be reported to the Disciplinary Commission, with corresponding evidence submitted for this purpose to prove reliably the error committed in accordance with the above definition.
In the case of the regular phase, once the clubs have received the referee’s report, they may submit their complaint no later than 1:00 pm on the day following the day on which the match ended. In the event that the term ends on Saturday or Sunday, the club has until the following Monday at 1:00 pm to present it ”.
Only the Club that has reported a manifest error to the Disciplinary Commission, in accordance with this subsection, can appeal to the Appeals Committee.
b) Penalize the actions of the Players in the case of Article 23 of these Rules (which refers to injuries during the development of the match).
c) Punish the violent conduct of a player that the referee and / or commissioner did not notice and that the committee is sure was committed.
d) It has the authority to deal with serious cases involving those covered by this Regulation, in particular animation groups, who have not warned both the referee and the commissioner of a match and that the Commission is satisfied that they happened before, during and / or after the game, and that do not correspond to the disciplinary decisions taken by the referee during the development of the 90 minutes of the game on the field of play.
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Articles 84 and 85 indicate how to make the inquiry request:
Section 84: Any club, player, member of the coaching staff, FMF body, or even a professional division may request the Disciplinary Commission to investigate events that occurred before, during and after the game that their club which are in violation of the provisions of article 74 subsections c and d of these Rules and which have not been complied with by the refereeing authority and / or the race commissioner.
Likewise, a Club may request the opening of an investigation in cases of injury referred to in Article 23 of these Rules.
Research requests may only be made by the Clubs that participated in the competition where the events to be claimed took place.
Article 85: The inquiry request must be submitted to the Disciplinary Commission up to 48 hours after the end of the last match of the relevant Day, in case of extraordinary matches or Out of Day, the deadline will be 24 hours after the end of the day. the match.