Thank you!
Ah, that's interesting. For some reason I always took 'offence punishable by a free kick' to mean that even a substitute/injured player would have to come onto the pitch AND commit further misconduct, but you persuade me otherwise.
Does this also mean that if you enter without permission and then commit dissent it's only a caution for the more serious offence of dissent?
We are expressly told we can hold the whistle on a player who enters without permission until either the ball goes out of play, or they interfere with play. We then caution them for entering without permission.
If they interfered however, and this interference was by an act of Dissent, the Laws would clearly allow us to punish both the EWOP and Dissent with separate yellow cards...ie, show 2 yellows (and then a red). if this feels like overkill, then we also would have the option of not cautioning for the Dissent. We do not have the option of ignoring the card for EWOP as this is a "must caution" in the Laws.