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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.

There's a list of all currently approved trials that can be tried next season on the IFAB website. This isn't one of them.

None of those reasons apply to why the pitch is built up so high. The first two only talk about why the pitch has a "slight slope" from the centre to the touchlines but not why there's such a steep drop-off at the sides. The third "reason" isn't actually a reason at all, just an observation as...

A tackle isn't a continuing foul though, it's a single point of contact foul. It doesn't matter where the player ends up after tumbling to the ground, it matters where the contact occurs. If the point of contact was outside the penalty area, it's a DFK outside the area, even if the player's...

According to beIN Sports, with a 3D graphic analysis that they posted on Twitter, they reckon the player that challenged for the ball (Noussair Mazraoui) was onside when the ball was played.

On Sunday I was unable to log into the FA Player and was getting an error message about services being unavailable. I guess that was also related. Haven't tried it again since, though.

You don't want it in high level matches either. :D

Yes it is - and we've had this discussion before. They've left the old wording in about touching or challenging for the ball before it's in play that made sense when the ball wasn't in play till it left the penalty area but doesn't when the ball is in play as soon as it is kicked and moves.

As pointed out by @Gabriel above, there's no yellow card for a team official entering the field of play - it's either a warning or a red card. If you wanted it to be a yellow card it would have to be for one of the other listed offences such as dissent but then you would be ignoring the whole...

Why pick only those two examples? The words deliberate or deliberately appear 43 times in the current edition of the laws. And I would definitely disagree on all saves being deliberate. Many saves are totally unintentional, such as when the ball is hit straight at the player and they can't get...