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What I have been doing is whenever I see a player lying on the ground and it is not a promising attack, I stop play to check the status of the player and then restart with a drop ball. Should I modify this behaviour to only stop on obvious serious injury?

Say a player suffers from cramping, ref stops the play, one of the teammates comes and stretches his/her leg to help with the recovery, do you consider it a kind of treatment and asks the player to leave and re-enter? The typical case would be that a physio comes in to asses and/or treat the...

Yes exactly. I didn't intend to play advantage. The best choice in retrospect is just to blow the whistle immediately, I am sure of that, it was a clear foul. It's not an intentional 'wait and see' either, it's the fact that the striker rising up instead of falling off the ground made me...

There was this match when a striker was fouled in the box and he was falling to the ground. I was going to give the penalty. I've already put my whistle in my mouth. However, the striker hold up in the last minute, rose from a near crouching position, dribbled several step, made a shot and the...

Perhaps Jesus is holding Maguire's shirt? Appreciate your opinion. Thanks @one .

Jesus barely moved and Maguire was moving towards him, how could he impede...

I did try to look for the push many times over the video but can't find the sign or push :-(

Arsenal vs Man united 31:48, referee gave a foul. I don't understand, Jesus was competing with Maguire for an Aerial ball. I can't find what's wrong with Jesus's action. Any hints? Thanks!

The laws says: It is an offence if a player ... scores in the opponents’ goal .... immediately after the ball has touched their hand/arm, even if accidental. Suppose after the ball has touched the attacking player's arm accidentally (in natural position), then it is immediate open goal (leaving...

Very helpful, thank you @Kes !

Yes that's what I was thinking at the moment. The jumping player knew there is another player besides but didn't seem to know he would land on the other player's foot. Still a bit challenging to decide whether to apply duty of care or to consider it incidental, but that's what a referee should...

Duty of care, that's a good point, I will use it next time. Thanks @Gamespoiler !

That makes sense. I was also feeling that I can not ask them to run. But to show them each time add extra time will be added might be a good idea. I actually added 5 minutes to that game, but to show the direct, incremental effect may work better. Thanks!

I also watched the video in slow motion many times, it doesn't strike me that the ball has deflected from the hand. Her left hand was positioned above the trajectory of the ball and the retraction of the hand started before the ball has arrived, and the movement of the hand seems to be natural...

Generally I agree with you, I will give it most of the time. But for this one I can't see any wrongdoing from the stepping side. Suppose you just jump to contend for the ball, basically strait up and down, stepping occurred just because you and the other player is too close. Can we say that for...