When the IFAB defined almost 100 changes to the Laws of the Game, some of them appeared to be quite theoretical, not to say irrelevant. Even the referee instructors in my own association told us, their referees, that most of the changes would be probably never needed in praxis. Last week's Champions League and Europa League Matchday 1 disabuse those voices. Situations 1 and 2: Denying an
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