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Advantage on blocked FK

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"If, when a free kick is taken, an opponent is closer to the ball than the required distance, the kick is retaken unless the advantage can be applied; but if a player takes a free kick quickly and an opponent who is less than 9.15 m (10 yds) from the ball intercepts it, the referee allows play to continue. However, an opponent who deliberately prevents a free kick being taken quickly must be cautioned for delaying the restart of play."

What if an opponent tries to block the FK but it rebounds to the advantage of the team with the FK? You play advantage, but do you go back to caution the offender?
 
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"If, when a free kick is taken, an opponent is closer to the ball than the required distance, the kick is retaken unless the advantage can be applied; but if a player takes a free kick quickly and an opponent who is less than 9.15 m (10 yds) from the ball intercepts it, the referee allows play to continue. However, an opponent who deliberately prevents a free kick being taken quickly must be cautioned for delaying the restart of play."

What if an opponent tries to block the FK but it rebounds to the advantage of the team with the FK? You play advantage, but do you go back to caution the offender?

Never given it thought, I will stick neck out and say I would not, first chance I got in passing I be saying to the guy that he got lucky ( or unlucky aa his team might see it)
Would be an extremely hard sell for a second yellow

No caution for me, subject to the offender not having been a d1ck and childishly ran at the ball making animal noises etc, and of course the overall tempo of game
based purely on the op, no caution in my game.
 
I would say not, in line with what @Anubis said.

Effectively, if the defender "blocks" the quick free kick but it rebounds for advantage then they haven't really "prevented it being taken quickly" so a caution in this case need not apply (?)
 
I would say not, in line with what @Anubis said.

Effectively, if the defender "blocks" the quick free kick but it rebounds for advantage then they haven't really "prevented it being taken quickly" so a caution in this case need not apply (?)
Fail to respect distance? (cat amongst pigeons, I too am not cautioning unless ridiculous)
 
In line with the fact that we are now not cautioning for an attempt to SPA where we are able to successfully play advantage, I'd say this falls into the same category - no caution
 
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Is this question about the scenario of a DFK being charged by an opponent in the wall and then the ball going into the goal?

I would, and have, waited to see whether advantage accrued to the team with the FK before blowing up over failing to respect the required distance. That is followed either by a retake and a caution, or a play on and a stern talking-to later.

Don't know whether strictly right in law, but it seems the best of all the options.
 
Is this question about the scenario of a DFK being charged by an opponent in the wall and then the ball going into the goal?
Could be either I guess but I got the impression the OP was talking about a free kick taken quickly rather than the ceremonial "wall" version ... ?
 
In line with the fact that we are now not cautioning for an attempt to SPA where we are able to successfully play advantage, I'd say this falls into the same category - no caution
I'll disagree slightly here. The SPA rule is a specfici provision in the magic book; there is no corresponding provision here. For me it is more of a "does the game need it" question--though if the game needs the caution, I am probably whistling it dead when it happens. So 99% of the time, I'm doing nothing more than a word. "You know, if you'd actually blocked that, I would have had to caution you." But it outlier cases with an egregious offense I'd be willing to go back and caution.

Aside: it does seem that many players I see think that if I haven't marked off 10 yards that means they are free to be a total knucklehead and run in to try to block the kick.
 
OP was a FK a long way out and despite the block it was a SPA (that petered out). It leaves the "last week's ref" argument over whether a caution is mandatory or discretionary or definitely not needed.
 
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