Recent content by Dan56

At this level, if both sides agree, I believe it can be worked very simply: player takes first penalty and leaves; we continue with penalties as per the Laws; should we reach eleven penalties each (not too common an occurrence) at this point the side with more players reduces to equate.

if you think the second handling was an offence, then yes, play advantage and give the penalty. However it seems you feel that this was not an offence just an inadvertent ball to hand with no time to react. In that case you have only one offence to deal with, and give a free kick outside PA...

As many have said, I think it is important to realise that just because the presence of the attacker forced a hasty kick from the keeper that alone does not justify an offside call. The big decision is rather whether you felt that the keeper's kick constituted a save or not. If you do, then...

When fellow referees make such petty and insulting claims against another match official it totally removes any hopes of coaches or players taking a more common sense approach.

The confusion here is caused by the fact that this Law was originally written when the ball was not in play until it had left the penalty area. The wording has not changed even though the ball is now in play when kicked and clearly moves. The logical meaning now would be that if the defence...

I remember when this became popular in early 70s. The advantage was surprise: a player would stand with feet either side of the ball, looking like he was discussing options with a team mate. Suddenly he would lift the ball in the air and catch the keeper and defence off guard. Like many of...

If you feel the defender had a chance to make a fair tackle and win the ball, then this was not a certain goal anyway and a penalty and yellow card was a fair result. If you feel a fair tackle was impossible then you have the right to decide there was no attempt to play the ball and give the...

I had always thought A on this question, but saw B on IFAB Facebook site. Dropped them an email to check. Here is their response: Good morning Thank you for your e mail and question. If there is a point of contact between the goalkeeper’s hand and the ball outside the penalty area line then...

It's a tricky line to walk. I was reffing an adult Women's game when a girl standing about 3 metres away from me got hit in the head by the ball. I was close enough to see the main contact was on her neck and cheek. She went down on one knee and I let the attack carry on for about 20 seconds...

The Laws define Holding as: Holding offence A holding offence occurs only when a player’s contact with an opponent’s body or equipment impedes the opponent’s movement. So the question is, how much did it actually impede the player? Leaves you a lot of leeway. This is why at elite levels they...

There are 3 kinds of handball OFFENCES: 1 Deliberate. Hand comes to ball. 2 Non deliberate. Hand /arm needs to be in unnatural position for what player is doing 3 Accidental. All hand/arms to ball that lead to immediate goal. The recent change in the Law merely said that type 2...

The whole question implied this. The OP was asking if he could do a "fair play" restart i.e. get the team taking the throw to return ball to opposition. As we all said, the ref has no authority to do this. But if the ball had still been in play during the tackle there would have been no need...

I think some people are missing the point that the ball was out of play when the tackle happened. In this case there is no way to give a free kick: nor can you arrange a "fair play" restart as you suggest. All you can decide to do is give a yellow or red card for the tackle if you feel it is...

I would suggest that as soon as they plant their non-kicking leg the run up is over. The Laws however say nothing about pausing here, merely "feinting"; in other words pretending to kick and then not doing so.

I think this is very simple. As one or two others have said: if the shirt removal is just slightly early reacting to the incipient goal. Allow the goal, but he of course gets a yellow card, If it is done in any kind of "taunt the opposition" manner. Then YC and disallow goal. And I won't...