I’d like to hear your thoughts on this situation.
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A yellow player commits a clear handball offence, but the referee does not blow the whistle.
Immediately afterwards, a green player uses his hands to place the ball at his feet and takes a quick restart.
I have two questions:
What do you think?
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A yellow player commits a clear handball offence, but the referee does not blow the whistle.
Immediately afterwards, a green player uses his hands to place the ball at his feet and takes a quick restart.
I have two questions:
- If advantage is being applied, the ball is still in play, so wouldn’t the green player’s handling itself be a handball offence?
- I understand that a quick restart does not normally require a whistle to restart play, but am I correct that the referee still needs to blow the whistle first to stop play for the original offence?
What do you think?


