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My landlord says he wants to talk to me about why the heating bills for my flat are so high. I told him he could pop round any time, my door is always open.

Yes, just as we are called on to do in many different parts of the law. The element of intent was only ever removed from physical contact fouls.

We do have the full wording, and it's not as has been quoted several times in this thread. The full wording of the explanation is this particular change is: "Clarification that non-deliberate handball offences for which penalties are awarded are to be sanctioned in the same way as fouls which...

We've had this discussion before (just over a month ago). There are two different but closely-related offences that are often conflated; denying a goal (DOG), and denying an obvious goal-scoring opportunity (DOGSO). This particular incident falls into the DOG category, rather than DOGSO. And...

No it doesn't, it just highlights the human frailties that can cause such errors to occur. That PGMOL statement makes it clear that under the IFAB protocols, the VAR could have intervened but that they failed to do so, due to the 'unique' nature of the situation. In other words, because GLT had...

Because he realised that to justify his actions, he needed to make it look like the keeper was injured, when it was clear from his demeanour both before and after play was stopped, that he actually wasn't.

If you've never tried blindfold target shooting, then you don't know what you're missing.

I swallowed a whole bottle of invisible ink, so I went straight to A&E. I haven't been seen yet.

Google is your friend. "The phrase implies that they're better off doing something stupid than bothering you. It expresses an additional level of disdain and contempt than by just saying, “go away!” According to some, it has a military origin. "Pounding sand (or ground)" equates to marching...

Funny, I would have said the exact opposite. Obviously I'm a little behind the times (and it's not what the laws say now) but for me, the only time a handling offence should ever be punished is if it's properly deliberate and intentional.

OK, then whoever was teaching your course obviously got that one wrong then. Maybe they had learned the laws before 1995 and hadn't noticed the change? Seems a tad unlikely, but still.

Just to answer this particular point because you've raised it a couple of times now - it is indeed true that the laws no longer talk about penalizing the player for a hand position where the hand is above shoulder level. Although I think it sounds as if you already know this, it is perhaps...

It's not asking a question though is it? It's a player continuously and publicly both protesting at and disagreeing with your decision not to call a foul throw. It completely matches the definition of dissent in the Laws glossary: "Public protest or disagreement [...] with a match official’s...

You're setting out to test the knowledge of a bunch of random referees on a random website? To what end, if I might ask?

Depends how long ago your training course was. :D The requirement for the "other" players to be behind the ball at a penalty kick was only introduced in 1995.

Oh and by the way, be careful about using the term "pass back" - although it's a convenient short hand term, it is somewhat misleading and can lead to a misapprehension of what the law actually means. Keep in mind that not all passes fall within the scope of this law (only those that are...

@JamesL already replied but just to add that your first query came up for discussion back in 2017 and I sent an email to the IFAB about it. See below.

To be strictly accurate, in law it only applies to holding but having said that, I think most referees consider pulling and holding to be two sides of the same coin.

Yes, of course you can decide to do it - deciding is simply forming a definite intent in your mind to do something. The question is whether his physical ability to act on that decision has been impacted. For instance, I could decide to go and confront my next door neighbour about a dispute we...

For me, at all times during that clip, his arm is in a position that is, "justifiable by the player’s body movement for that specific situation."