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Completely agree with this. However it raises follow up questions. Should a team suffer from other match official mistakes, for example an assistant referee raising the flag too early for offside?
 
one said:
Completely agree with this. However it raises follow up questions. Should a team suffer from other match official mistakes, for example an assistant referee raising the flag too early for offside?
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Apples and oranges. Players are taught from early on to play the whistle not the flag, but player are expected to rely on the mandatory referee indirect (or not) signal.
 
socal lurker said:
Apples and oranges. Players are taught from early on to play the whistle not the flag, but player are expected to rely on the mandatory referee indirect (or not) signal.
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I can say with relative confidence that that there are more (a lot more) players that don't know about IFK signal than the offside flag. 🤣

But agree that they are different breeds of officials errors.
 
Referee blows the whistle for a foul just before the ball enters the net, the whistle doesn't stop the goalkeeper or defending playing the ball.

Why not apply 'spirit of the law' and allow the goal?
 
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RefereeX said:
We actually discussed this on here several months back and I asked my coach who is an EFL referee, and happened to be with several other EFL referees at the time I messaged him, and they all agreed there was no definitive law answer and we had broken the LOTG 😆
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LOTG was broken long before you got to it. 🤣 and the more they tried to fix it the more they brokend it.
 
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