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Also to mention that if the second touch is a handball offence, then the restart is a direct rather than an indirect free kick (or a penalty kick if it's inside the penalty area).

I'm wondering what you mean by "when offsides were first introduced." Are you talking about when the first Laws of Association Football were adopted in 1863? Because even before then, all the other sets of rules, like Cambridge, Eton and Uppingham for example, had a version of an offside...

Three conspiracy theorists walk into a bar. Now that can’t be a coincidence can it?

I guess you had to have lived in the UK (or a few other countries in Europe) in the 60's - 80's to get this one. "Treets were a brand of confectionery sold by Mars Limited in the UK, Italy, France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. The original product consisted of peanuts coated in milk...

I once had a peanut stuck in my ear. I poured in some melted chocolate and it came out a Treat!

As @JamesL says, you are correct. If you want the actual wording, Law 13 says:

I'm surprised no-one's mentioned the following example of this, given that we've discussed it on here more than once.

The run up is finished when the player arrives at the ball and does not thereafter take any more steps before kicking the ball (or feinting to kick it, if they breach this part of the law). If you saw players plant their foot, draw it back, then pause and wait until the keeper moved, before...

When I worked at the United Nations, I was once asked to get Kofi Annan a gram of cocaine. After thinking about it for a while, I called him up and said, "I'm sorry Kofi, the only one I can think of right now is 'oceanic'."

This morning Siri said, 'Don't call me Shirley.' Turns out I had accidentally left my phone in Airplane! mode.

I think you'd have to look up the information for every National Association in the world to find that out.

That's a very bold claim to make - do you have any actual evidence to back it up? And - unless you saw him in the very early years of his career before he started doing games with assistant referees, I rather doubt that you've ever seen Pierluigi Collina give a ball in or out of play, as that's...

It seems that the England players will not be able to vote in the General Election. Turns out that when asked, not one of them could identify the box or was able to put a cross in it.

Law 1 states that: Can anyone elucidate what "hybrid" means in this context?

I saw a challenge on Mitrovic - I didn't see a foul, however (just as the referee and the VAR didn't).

I have a pair of Sooty and Sweep glove puppets for sale. I'll take a fiver for them - I just want to get them off my hands.

A police officer stopped me yesterday due to the terrible state of the sleeve on my cardigan, which is covered in small balls of fluff. I've been charged with grievous bobbly arm.

On a similar vein, after I made a couple of incorrect signals early on in my refereeing journey (pretty much always just after half time) what I started doing was just calling which team had the throw, "red ball," "white ball" etc. I could always remember which team had touched it last, so just...

It's not the main topic of discussion - it's just one of many and far from being the most discussed topic. For instance, this topic has 13 entries so far, the VAR vote one has 89.

Again, this is not real. No such trial has been approved by the IFAB for next season. Here's the list of all of the currently approved ones.