Recent content by Peter Grove

As pointed out by @Gabriel above, there's no yellow card for a team official entering the field of play - it's either a warning or a red card. If you wanted it to be a yellow card it would have to be for one of the other listed offences such as dissent but then you would be ignoring the whole...

Why pick only those two examples? The words deliberate or deliberately appear 43 times in the current edition of the laws. And I would definitely disagree on all saves being deliberate. Many saves are totally unintentional, such as when the ball is hit straight at the player and they can't get...

My landlord says 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...