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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.

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...

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...

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...

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

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

When it comes down to it, this is all referees' fault. Everyone moans about how complicated it has become; but when it was clean and simple it was chaos. Once, all we had to go on was "deliberate" or not. And referees kept giving handballs for totally accidental contacts because "well, they...

I am sure you are right - DFK (or penalty). The offence is not where the object was thrown from but where it struck (or would have struck) the player...which is on the field of play. The other example you quote, for the IFK, is if an offence occurs off the field between a player and another...

The Laws for once answer your question word for word. They quite clearly state that the referee: "stops play if a player is seriously injured".

It seems to me that we need to be clearer from the OP which players are leaving the FOP at GKs and FKs to "Create a better angle to run on to the ball". If we are talking about the player TAKING said dead balls then I see no problem; players leave the FOP to take corners and throw ins and no...

In the leagues here in Western Australia the clubs each have to provide someone to run the line. If they cannot do so they forfeit the game. In nine years here I have never once not had CAR's

And yes, not only a red card for DOGSO, but also a DFK or penalty for the restart.

Same here in Australia, we just show the card and note the number.

Actually the old Law was a mess of DBs and IFKs without any logic or common sense (believe me, I had to study it). The new Law at least has a logic to it: The big question is always: was a player (or match official) involved. A Player means someone actually counted as playing at that moment...