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    Red card to goalkeeper

    Here in Australia we never worry about names. We get given a team sheet with all these details, if we caution a player we just take the number and look it up at end of game. So if a new player goes in goal I just make a note of what number they had before...they can then wear a goalie shirt...
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    Defender in the wall on a DFK

    While I fully agree with your point, this approach can also lead to trouble: I once gave an IFK to the attack, somewhere close to penalty spot. I got defenders ten yards away and warned them to stay put until ball was kicked. I whistled and defenders all immediately raced towards the ball...
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    wycombe wanderers vs peterborough - red card

    This seems to me to be easily covered. Firstly he only needs to GAIN control in this case, and most people would say that he has a pretty reasonable chance of doing this. It is by no means certain, but then you must notice it does not say we need to be sure he will DEFINITELY gain control...
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    wycombe wanderers vs peterborough - red card

    A little baffled by your comment about the player not being in a DOGSO...this is a very obvious goal scoring opportunity. The only question is whether the hand in the back was enough to disrupt the attacker's balance. And the way he looks round immediately at ref makes me feel it certainly did.
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    Laws/Rules that you didn't know existed until becoming a referee

    This is true. But we must remember that at that stage there was no way to penalize any offence anyway. Players were expected, as gentlemen, to just avoid doing it. Free kicks (other than the kick originally given for making a fair catch) never arrived until 1871-2 when they were introduced...
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    Laws/Rules that you didn't know existed until becoming a referee

    Not completely accurate. In 1863 the original offside Law was brutally simple - if you were in front of the ball you were offside. Any where on the whole pitch. This is pretty much what it still is in Rugby. It didn't work well in Football. Goal kicks would have been a problem with this Law...
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    Laws/Rules that you didn't know existed until becoming a referee

    You are (as always) 100% right. The IFAB have been banging on for about 100 years that being in an offside position is not an offense. However it is fairly true to say that referees in the 70s and 80s tended to treat it as if it were. When I started out as a club linesman in late 70s the Laws...
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    Laws/Rules that you didn't know existed until becoming a referee

    So you are saying that you will simply ignore a Law of the Game rather than go to the trouble of explaining it?
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    Referee gets pushed

    I refereed a ladies game in which I was pushed by a player. It was a two handed shove on the chest, not particularly strong but took me completely by surprise. I showed the red card and wondered how much support I would get from the league. They banned her for a year.
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    One foul worse than the other - restart

    As I said, I only accept Nij's argument about a whistle stopping play if we also accept that a referee MUST punish the first of two offenses. So, in your case above he cannot give a throw and also caution the player for the earlier SFP. However he CAN decide the the SFP was not in his mind an...
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    One foul worse than the other - restart

    You are all arguing exactly the same thing: two fouls, one before another and the referee must punish the first. The only disagreement here is at what point exactly does play stop? When the first foul happens and the referee decides he (or she) is going to give it? Or when he actually...
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    Circumventing the law

    No, let's be very clear. It's only a retake if whoever takes the goal kick (keeper or any other player) flicks it up for someone to head to keeper. If anyone passes it to a second player and this player flicks it up for them self to head to keeper, it is just plain old circumvention and a YC...
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    One foul worse than the other - restart

    Actually I believe Nij is totally correct. We need to forget all this stuff about the ball being out of play when the referee decides, even if the whistle has not blown. So let's assume that the ball IS in play until the whistle. Now, so long as we stick to the principle that we always punish...
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    Circumventing the law

    Actually this should not be a retake but a YC and a IFK. The IFAB circular mentions a retake if the keeper flicks it up to a player who heads it back. But the OP said the PLAYER flicked it up to himself and then headed it to the keeper. That is still circumvention.
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    Two technicalities

    1. Since the shout happened before the DFK was taken. you cannot give an IFK (ball was not in play when offence occurred). So you can caution the player who shouted, then go back and retake the original DFK. 2. The throw in should have been taken from where the original throw in was given.
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