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Maybe missing the philosophy. If the advantage is there, they didn't stop a promising attack, so what is there to caution for?

The majority of the big organisations in football make decision that damage unity. FIFA, the FA, UEFA, CONMEBOL, and others all do things that diverge (sometimes significantly) from what is good for the sport and good for its cohesion, and have done for decades. Bemoaning the egos and money? Way...

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Wow, you're actually illiterate. That or just not bothering to read anything you respond to. I only talked about disciplinary action for tackles that were fouls. I don't say anything about carding for tackles that are not fouls. I included a paragraph specifically to say that not all tackles...

Often a player who gets the ball but still fouls, would have fouled regardless of whether they got the ball, usually because they make a sliding challenge that either goes through the opponent to get to the ball later or takes the whole lot at once. That immediately brings it hovering around...

Badly: near AR getting in the middle of it (and basically got hit as soon as they tried). Stay out of it, make a triangle with referee at the other corner, observe in case of SFP or VC, for other offences if possible. Let the benches and players separate them. Good: far AR came to support...

Not every OFFINABUS is dissent. Telling a referee they'll be useless because they're overweight/wear glasses/have ginger hair, beforehand the game even starts are not about the decision at all because there haven't been any, but are offensive or insulting or abusive.

And did Mr Platini explain which of Konrad and Wurtz ended up getting to the national or international level? Because from the way referees are told not to make themselves the centre of attention or ruin the spectacle, and from the other feedback that is most obvious to outsiders and most...

It doesn't matter how many fouls they've made, you have to give them a warning before you can card them... :rolleyes:

Don't need a replay, he walks, and I'd hope the judiciary makes him sit for a long while.

Born 90 years ago and still going to work!? .. oh, in the 20s, not from them. But also, if none of the people involved are registering with a local association, none of them care what IFAB or FIFA think, because they're not under any such control.

Stop the watch and book the second guy. Stand over the ball and tell them he can rearrange it until there's another card, or he can be ready to kick the ball when the whistles is blown. Give them a moment to make sure of the right player, then step away and blow whistle. They keep doing it, I...

Any codger at Level 777 can flag for OS when they think they've seen it and it won't really matter, either they're waved down or the referee will blow whistle, someone will moan about it and then everybody forgets after the next idiot trips over making a tackle and starts handbags. ARs at the...

At what point do we see top officials in one organisation make the same choices about the same kinds of incident, and stop pegging it down to vague circumstances that clearly don't apply, instead of adherence to firm instructions on exactly what to do? (i.e. "as little as possible")

That doesn't make any sense. Play does not stop for the flag, it stops for the whistle. Anything back to the last restart could be considered if relevant for VAR (or prior to that for mistaken identity or RC for SFP and spitting). The "offside first, foul second, no penalty" only applies if the...

There's no irony here. IFAB wants to reduce the space that players aren't allowed to work within, in terms of law framework, but it wants those boundaries a lot firmer. In effect, they've said that more of the grey area should be applied to the outside, but that means less grey area is...

Yeah, referee has overreacted to that. I don't see a foul here at all - just an attacker who thought the ball would keep moving when the defender had made sure it wouldn't, and the predictable result was that the legs no longer went where the body needed them to.

I've gone for plenty enough to know flailing like an idiot isn't natural unless you've been trained into it. So at best you've got someone choosing to learn to do it wrong, which if it isn't deliberate comes so close as to be a pointless distinction.

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He knows a shot attempt is coming through if he doesn't get that header - it's Ronaldo for freckles' sake. So once he does miss, he lets the goalside arm flail way more than is natural. It's totally unnecessary and unrelated to his previous body movement. Easy PK and caution, don't mind whether...