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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...

I'm not sure it's quite accurate to say that the most recent guidance is from 2022. The most recent guidance is from this year's laws, which contain the almost exact same wording as the 2022 document you refer to. The only difference is that they've added the words "(excluding deliberate...

The thing is though, if the the player's injury is serious, the physio or medic needs to do an assessment first, to see whether it's safe for the player to be moved. And the distinction between assessment and treatment can be a bit blurry. So yes, players often do get treatment along with, or...

It was only clear to me after watching the video a couple of times, that it was thrown from the crowd. However from the referee's viewpoint it may well have seemed to come from the technical area. So if the referee decided that was where it came from and that it was either thrown by the manager...

The hardest couple of football matches my team ever took part in were both played on pitches made of crushed brick, rubble and concrete, we won 3-2 on aggregate.

Oh, I don't know about that - I'd say it is relatively difficult to find. I think I'm fairly good at finding things on the internet and I wasn't aware of any of the guidance until I asked about it here, and people provided either the info itself, or links to it. If I didn't frequent this...

It does indeed state that, and that's precisely the problem, because the detailed definition given in the paragraphs immediately preceding that statement, do not give any leeway, they're clear and unambiguous. So we have two pieces of written law that are pretty much totally at odds with each...

This. If you give a whole, detailed definition of when a goalkeeper is considered to be in control of the ball and then say, that when it comes to the 8 second rule, "the referee will decide when the goalkeeper has control of the ball," without giving any indication that the prior definition can...