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RustyRef described the whole process succinctly and accurately. However, to others who posted, I do think that on a referee's website we should really stop using vague and unclear expressions like "box" and 'area" and always refer to Goal area and Penalty area.

I had a game where two players tangled legs and fell to the floor. Suddenly they were violently hitting and choking each other round the face. Within seconds the whole of both teams, including both technical areas, were leaping into a major melee. It was not a fight as such, just attempting to...

What to do when there is an infringement at a penalty is steadily getting more complicated. All the tables quoted here are correct, so far as that goes, but I hope you have all noticed the (IMHO) far less intuitive ruling pointed out by the IFAB in a recent circular and incorporated into 2017/8...

A rouge was a kind of "less than a goal" score. For a single season in 1867, Sheffield experimented with "rouge flags", 8 yards outside each goal post. A shot that went wide on either side scored a rouge. At the end of the game, if the scores in goals were level, the team with most rouges...

One of the problems with the early Laws is that they were in a constant state of flux. But most histories of the game quote only the original set (Sheffield 1858, FA 1863) and only hint at subsequent changes. "The Football Association 1863 - 1883 A source Book" gives a year by year detailed...

Back in the 1840- 1860's there were a large number of different sets of rules and laws, all competing with each other. The Football Association was set up in 1863 precisely because of this, and to try to impose a uniformity on the game. The rules in the article above was from the Sheffield...

Just thought I'd post something a little different. I would be very interested to hear anyone's stories of when they (as a player, coach or even a CAR) managed to outsmart the referee. Not necessarily examples of cheating, but stories of out-thinking or wrong footing the match officials. Let...

Our leagues pretty much insist a dismissed person goes at least 30 metres away from touchline. If they refuse and claim their right (as a spectator) to stand and watch from closer, you give them a warning, and if that is ignored then you simply abandon the game.

I fully agree with the red card. One point that has not been raised is about the restart. I assume that all this happened during a break in play, in which case the restart does not change from whatever it would have been....but it's worth pointing out that under the new Laws, if this fight...

Why should it be? Would you consider it PIADM when the keeper dives down and catches a ball at a forward's feet in normal play? Would you card a keeper for it? And since a dropped ball is considered in normal play as soon as it hits the ground the keeper has the same right.

This is a very slippery slope. Tailoring your decisions to suit "match control" may seem OK when discussing subjective areas such as offensiveness of a player's comment, but where does this eventually lead?: Last ten minutes of a tight game - a penalty appeal; referee feels it probably was a...

While you clearly intend to say stock answers are bad, in actual fact, IMHO, they are exactly what we should be aiming for. What the Laws of the Game have been steadily moving towards for years is to limit inconsistency and "creative" refereeing. There are huge areas of Law where it does come...

This does not sound tongue in cheek. If you are really joking about cherry-picking which laws to follow and which to ignore, you should really do it in a way that sounds funny. Or at least use a smiley emoticon. Personally I think your claim to be joking is a better example of "cowardly...

We cannot assume that this is a mistake in Law. If the referee believed the tackle to be worse than reckless, then even under the new Laws he is fully allowed to still give a red card. And while we may disagree with this decision, this is only a dispute over facts, and that is not protest able...

Only trying to pass on what I have been taught (and which seems to me to make sense). Why do you feel such a need to argue the point so aggressively?

It is always a problem with anything that uses language, that shades of meaning change over time and leave words, once perfectly fitting the meaning, in a grey area. I would argue that Deliberate and Intentional both imply a conscious act, but Deliberate applies to the act alone whereas...

As I said in everyday speech we often use it as such but it really is not, and the IFAB has sent out a series of videos showing how a defender can miss-kick a ball straight to an offside positioned player and this is considered a deliberate play on the ball, even though the outcome is clearly...

I too think Padfoot has called it accurately. One little thing about Deliberate Handling that does not get mentioned enough, is that there is a difference between "deliberate" and "intentional". In real life we often use these two terms interchangeably, but in fact Intentional means that the...

No embarrassment at all. I never implied that the factual statement was untrue...rather that it was irrelevant, in other words it had no bearing on the matter being discussed. The OP was centred on whether a goal should be allowed or not for a case of handling the ball: and the only...

I think the Twitter screenshot may have been slightly misunderstood (a guess, since it no longer exists). Certainly if a goal is scored through DELIBERATE handling it should be disallowed and if the referee believes it was intentionally carried out "in an attempt to score a goal" the player...