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I saw this clip on Twitter. It doesn't appear a foul was called. Say you were teaching the Laws to brand new referees. How would you explain whether this is a foul or not? Did the defender clearly get the ball? Yes. Did the defender take out the attacker? Yes. Thanks

So in my son's U17 match, a kid deliberately pulls on the shirt of an attacker to try to stop the attack but the attacker shakes him off. The referee yells advantage. The same defender catches up to him a second later and again tugs on his shirt. The attacker shakes him off. Again, the referee...

There is nothing special about this particular situation but it got me thinking...I was watching a match last night and one team tied it up late, and as you've probably seen dozens of times, the scorer sprinted into the goal to grab the ball just as the GK was picking it up and then teammates...

From Law 16: From 16.1: The ball is in play when it is kicked and clearly moves From 16.2: If an opponent who is in the penalty area when the goal kick is taken, or enters the penalty area before the ball is in play, touches or challenges for the ball before it is in play, the goal kick is...

Hello, so just to start off, I'm in the US and we do not use club assistant referees in any of the leagues I referee in. Everyone is a certified referee. And more often than not, we do a set of games and we rotate between AR and center referee. My point there is that the referee crew should be...

Law 3 states...If, after a goal is scored, the referee realises, before play restarts, that an extra person was on the field of play when the goal was scored: the referee must disallow the goal if the extra person was: a player, substitute, substituted player, sent-off player or team official...

So when I think of DOGSO, I think of break aways with the attacker going forward at full speed and the 2nd to last defender fouling from the side or behind also running at pretty much full speed....something like that. However, yesterday, I had a situation where the attacking center forward...

This was from a Q and A on http://www.askasoccerreferee.com/...I'm wondering if others agrees with this. I've never heard of using the 3 criteria discussed to determine foul, foul and card, or nothing. Especially the speed of the slide...are their really slow slides? Does this do a good job...

I was watching the U17 Puerto Rico / Costa Rica match on Sunday and it went to KFTM. Not many players were wearing their shin guards to take the kick. Are shin guards required for KFTM?

A parent asked me if baseball cleats are allowed in soccer. I didn't know. The Laws don't seem to give answers on what is and isn't allowed, just as long as they aren't dangerous. I googled it and got lots of hits that baseball cleats aren't allowed in soccer. Lacrosse cleats aren't allowed in...

So a U16 match...The players are complaining about fouls being called alot, etc to the CR and the CR is engaging with them quite a bit and then he tells one of the players "Just shut the F--- up punk." If you were AR, would you say anything to him at halftime or after the game? Would you say...

An IDFK is awarded if a player... initiates a deliberate trick for the ball to be passed (including from a free kick or goal kick) to the goalkeeper with the head, chest, knee etc. to circumvent the Law, whether or not the goalkeeper touches the ball with the hands; the goalkeeper is penalised...

Law 3 states the following: A player who is sent off: before submission of the team list cannot be named on the team list in any capacity after being named on the team list and before kick-off may be replaced by a named substitute, who cannot be replaced; the number of substitutions the team...

Is there some unwritten rule for match control I guess that you should try to call the same number of fouls against each team? What do you do if one team is just fouls more? Thanks

So I was watching a video on handball violations and the person was including "and, because the shot was "goal bound," it is also a yellow card." These handball examples were certainly unintentional. Are any shot attempts that hit an arm in an unnatural position regardless of how subtle or...

I'm hoping some of you can share your thoughts on Man City's 2nd goal yesterday. Sterling was in an offside position on the ground in front of the GK. A defender partially blocks the shot in front of Sterling. Shot goes in. Noone appealed for offside. I agree there was no offside offense but...

Hello, I'm starting to center more games now....mostly 11, 12, and 13 year olds. What are some rules of thumb or points to consider when defenders take out an attacker but get the ball first. I feel like a trip is a trip regardless if you get the ball first but referees tend to let it go as...

Why are the 4th and 5th bullet points not listed as cautionable offenses for a substitute or substituted player? Thanks in advance Cautionable offences A player is cautioned if guilty of: delaying the restart of play dissent by word or action entering, re-entering or deliberately leaving the...

Can you all provide some examples of what this all means or even explain in in simpler terms. This is very confusing to me. Do players leave the field of play without the referee's permission often? What are the practical implications of this. Thank you much! "A defending player who leaves the...

So a GK was going to punt the ball. The opponent deliberately moves toward the keeper and jumps into the path of the punt and blocks the punt. The rebound goes backward and out of bounds. I could have sworn that this was an automatic yellow, but, after reviewing the Law 12, I don't see it...