5 questions which referees should get right but players and coaches would not know or need to know!
OK. Poor phrasing on my part. But again, I thought the clarification was to do away with the circus of the, now, player having to physically step on to the pitch, to take a throw in for example.Actually substitutes are never allowed to take any restarts (entering field of play or not). Only players are. A very poor question.
I deliberately gave myself a 4/5 but gave the right answer to prove a point. To whom? I don't know.
@JamesL that clarification was to precisely fix what I mention above. Prior to that 'substitues' could take restarts after entering the field. Now only players can.
In a substitution procedure, once done correctly, and once the substitute enters the FOP, he is no longer a substitute, but a player.
I thought this had changed too so I got that question "wrong". I went to both the footy and futsal laws (it's more relevant in futsal) and found that it's still there in both books.OK. Poor phrasing on my part. But again, I thought the clarification was to do away with the circus of the, now, player having to physically step on to the pitch, to take a throw in for example.
I recall games being held up for the player to actually step on to field of play before being allowed to take the throw in. I mean so long as a slither of their toenail has touched the line they have entered the field of play - maybe I have poor recollection lol
Confused we are...I thought this had changed too so I got that question "wrong". I went to both the footy and futsal laws (it's more relevant in futsal) and found that it's still there in both books.
So, I (we) are confused here... what's going on?
Well, there is that niggling prohibition in the LOTG about subs entering the field without permission.To be clear, on the quiz question itself, the problems is that it doesn't give any context of a substitution process at all. So if we take the 4th option as the correct answer (the one the quiz gives as correct), then at any throw in a substitute, without intending for a substitution, can enter the field then exit and take a legal throw without becoming a player.
Indeed and much more relevant than the 'You Are The Ref' issue I'm reading (Birthday present from son, so feel obliged) where the situations get more and more absurd with each passing page. In Keith Hackett's weird and wonderful world you have a coach in the technical area 'filming' the oppo centre forward' a player injecting himself before coming on as a sub and subs not sitting in the technical area but in an air conditioned room in the stadium!Well, there is that niggling prohibition in the LOTG about subs entering the field without permission.
But really, while you may have a technical gripe here, the context of the question is obvious even without the missing words. No one is going to actually believe the question means what you just posited. Could it be more crisply drafted? Sure. But let's not let perfection be the enemy of the good--it is, in fact, a good and thought provoking question, which is the whole purpose of those quizzes--which I appreciate a lot, especially in this awful time when I never get to step foot on a pitch.