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The law was introduced to allow for players to have time to recover from an unexpected touch by a match official. When the ball goes out of play, that is a stoppage that allows the players time to recover.

I think that this is absolutely by design. If you look at the coach sanctions, the majority are higher than for a player, because the expectation (not reality obviously) is that coaches are held to a higher standard than players.

Reportedly, the referee's watch stopped so he thought the match was complete.

Agreed with the above... the only reason the GK got to the ball first was because of the move made by the defender. Easily checks all four boxes. And honestly, that move out to hit the attacker likely took longer than it would have to actually play the ball.

I never said that you should make match changing decisions based on supposition. I simply suggested that "it suggests to me that there was a point of contact that you missed in the tackle that possibly should have elevated this from what you felt was a fair tackle to careless or (more likely)...

When looking at a challenge, possibility of playing the ball definitely comes into play, but force, intensity, point of contact all must be considered too. Take the Cooper (Leeds) tackle yesterday. Got the ball, but point of contact was studs to the leg (above the ankle) with a non-bent leg...

No. It had potential to be playing in a dangerous manner, but the GK was clearly not hesitant in any way to attempt to play that ball due to the proximity of the player.

You'd be surprised. There are a lot of bits that get ambiguous in translation. There's a reason why the start of each edition of the Laws points out that if there's confusion or conflict, the English language version takes precedence. Yes. It applies to the whole phrase "kicked to the...

And where there are differences, the English version is the master.

He had his trail foot on or over the line on each save... he's good to go. Newport GK was the same.

Part of the problem here is that the FA/PGMOL are taking it a step further than FIFA has been teaching. The teaching at those levels has been to delay the flag only if it is a close or uncertain offside situation. Obvious stuff should be flagged when the offence occurs. English assistants seem...

Velcro (hook and loop fastener). Attach the loop (soft) side to the jersey where you want the badge to go, put the hook (hard) side onto the back of the badge. Benefit there? You can remove the badge when washing the jersey, and you can put it onto another jersey if need be.

If VAR deems this to be a red card offence (DOGSO), then they roll back in the sequence to see if there was an offside. If so... :)

Takeaway is defined as "can only be consumed away from the establishment". The difference between a shopping centre and a stadium is that in a shopping centre, the shops selling the food are NOT the same as the shopping centre, so it can be within the shopping centre which is a different...

This is an interesting one, and at least three studies have been done on it over the years, one of which had a follow-up using the Champions League games this summer as a series of high level games with no fans. The one I recall best came out of Germany and they found a decently significant...

Just be aware that, as far as I recall, nowhere in the US has sanctioned the use of sin bins as yet. The governing body (US Soccer) has to allow for their use.

Video of all angles, plus a VR simulation at the end... haha. https://streamable.com/ik5tvk

Yes, that's how it works -- if the winner of the toss chooses to kick off, their opponents get choice of end.

My understanding from two FIFA sessions and conversations with a couple of other instructors is that yes... that's exactly it... Except change "would result in a DOGSO" to "would result in a possible DOGSO".

I just wanted to clarify, in case someone read that statement and didn't consider the other circumstance. :) P.S. I think that the problem this time in taing the changes verbatim came because there are (apparently) some football people that sit on the futsal law committee.