Recent content by Peter Grove

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...

You're setting out to test the knowledge of a bunch of random referees on a random website? To what end, if I might ask?

Depends how long ago your training course was. :D The requirement for the "other" players to be behind the ball at a penalty kick was only introduced in 1995.

Oh and by the way, be careful about using the term "pass back" - although it's a convenient short hand term, it is somewhat misleading and can lead to a misapprehension of what the law actually means. Keep in mind that not all passes fall within the scope of this law (only those that are...

@JamesL already replied but just to add that your first query came up for discussion back in 2017 and I sent an email to the IFAB about it. See below.

To be strictly accurate, in law it only applies to holding but having said that, I think most referees consider pulling and holding to be two sides of the same coin.

Yes, of course you can decide to do it - deciding is simply forming a definite intent in your mind to do something. The question is whether his physical ability to act on that decision has been impacted. For instance, I could decide to go and confront my next door neighbour about a dispute we...

For me, at all times during that clip, his arm is in a position that is, "justifiable by the player’s body movement for that specific situation."

OK, well they got one part of the law right, in saying that the offside-positioned player, "restricts what the goalkeeper is able to do." However, the overall credibility of the decision is not helped them making a statement that runs contrary to the provisions of the law, namely that the...

None. LotG only require that a team's shirts allow them to be distinguishable from the other team (and the match officials).

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. It's inherent in the way VAR is supposed to be used (as laid out in the law) that sometimes it's involved in a decision being reviewed (and potentially changed) and sometimes it isn't. That's because in one game you'll have a decision that in the...

Yes, but as @socal lurker alluded to, the criterion for sending the referee to the monitor is not whether they had a clear view of the incident or not, it's whether they've made a clear and obvious error in relation to the incident.

Law 12 states: And ... Also, it's been the case since 1995 that intention is not considered when it comes to offences where opponents are involved with each other in a physical manner - such as challenging for the ball. So I'd say that IMHO this is a challenge and since the keeper is clearly...

I bought a pet rabbit for the kids last week. It fed it the corner from my ham toastie on Sunday. Then it ate a little bit of my cheese toastie on Monday. Then a smidgeon of my mince toastie yesterday. I found it dead today. Mixo'mytoasties.