Recent content by Peter Grove

Quite. The following would seem applicable.

You're not going wrong, they are. The wording of Law 13 (which you have correctly quoted) is clear and unambiguous on this.

No, it's not. As the glossary entry posted by @one states, playing the ball means making contact with it. There's also this from the "Guidelines for Match Officials" section.

I don't think that meets the criteria for this law amendment. As I read it, a goal can only be scored at a penalty kick after a subsequent, accidental touch, if:

The more I hear about inverse proportion, the less I like it.

Based on what's on the IFAB website, it sounds like it's whenever the referee comes to the conclusion that the player is taking too long. Unlike with the goalkeeper 8 second count down, there is apparently no defined start point other than when the referee decides to initiate the count

Yes, as @Tealeaf also alludes to, it's the non-deliberate handling denial of a goal/goal scoring opportunity clause that was recently introduced.

OK, but this player didn't feint to kick the ball after completing the run-up. He feinted during the run-up, then resumed the run-up, then kicked the ball immediately after completing the run-up without any further feint taking place.

Except that the wording of the law was changed in 2017, specifically to say that it doesn't matter if the player is heading diagonally away from goal at the time of the foul, so long as the overall direction of travel is towards the goal. Or, as the explanatory note to the change put it:

Fair enough, but there is a difference between something said in a jokey way in private to a close personal friend and something shouted in a public and provocative manner at a complete stranger. Not saying that it's necessarily enough to stop a game for, but you're comparing apples and oranges.

Madness at the petrol station today.

I don't have TNT, so I can't go back and look at the full game coverage to see if they eventually put up more info in the VAR caption at the bottom of the screen, or if the referee made a verbal announcement. Do they do that in UEFA games?

I altered my original post before I saw yours, because I realised I'd worded it poorly in light of there apparently being an on-field decision of handball. But I would agree that (again, based on the clips I've seen, including a much longer one than this) there doesn't seem to be any sign of the...

The VAR caption at the bottom of the screen says, "VAR check over." Isn't that what it normally says when the check shows that no offence has been committed? For instance, in the Roma vs Lille game, the VAR caption showed us each time, what the thrice-retaken penalty was retaken for (i.e. what...