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Hardly a brain puzzler: give them the second yellow, followed by a red. Put any other misconduct in the report.

I see no problem with giving two bites at the cherry after an offence. Had the defender not fouled there would have been only one bite; the second chance is the punishment for fouling. There are places in the Laws too where the two bites idea is clearly indicated. If while taking a penalty...

If you check IFAB's simplified Football Rules website (footballrules.com) it is stated very clearly: "A handball offence is not committed when a player: heads, kicks or plays the ball with another part of their body and it then hits their own hand/arm (unless the ball goes directly into the...

Except that IFAB have made it clear that if there is illegal feinting and the ball is NOT then kicked, there is still a YC but the penalty remains the restart. Remember that there are two other anomalies that lead to loss of the penalty kick. One is the kicker playing the ball backwards, the...

No one seems to have noticed but Haaland was in an offside position just over the half way line when the ball was played. There was a defender in front of him, but no keeper. So can it be a DOGSO given that if he had touched the ball it would have been interfering with play? It would still...

You are 100% correct.... a player standing in an offside position, who does not make any kind of action, CAN be penalised if just by standing there they prevent the GK reaching the ball. Note : just because the keeper is worried about them being there will not constitute an offence: they need...

I asked IFAB about how this Law should be enforced a few months ago. I had always assumed that if any part of the ball was above the line, then the whole ball was in the area and could be handled. But no. They said that if the keeper handled the part of the ball outside the penalty area line...

Yes. The player can be replaced by one of the subs on the list and number of substitution opportunities is not reduced.

Not Law CHANGE, Law CLARIFICATION.

Incidentally, in the Law changes for 25-26 this Law has been altered. After talking about giving a corner if the keeper holds on to the ball for over 8 seconds it lists the times that the keeper has possession: and all the stuff about the ball being between hand and body or hand and any other...

Very simply the ref has to decide if this is an accidental coming together or a challenge for the ball. If it is a challenge it is a foul since NO challenges for the ball can be made while the keeper is in possession.

All offences involving contact are DFK

Not at all. I clearly remember the hodge podge of punishments that were in the Laws prior to the 1997 and 2016 rewrites. A complicated mess of drop balls and IFKs that were a pain to remember. It has all been greatly (and logically) simplified. Plus the constant flicking to the back pages to...

That seems almost a dictionary definition of calling him biased.

This seems to me to be a very good example of the flash lag effect. I think it was just about offside, but so marginal you would think the AR would have kept his flag down until the move is over. However flash lag probably meant that the AR saw the running player well ahead of where he...

I would expect a ref at that level to have the $7.99 to buy a spare whistle.

Can I just say that the idea of the ball being in play till the referee signals makes perfect sense. I have always felt uncomfortable with the concept of a referee saying "the ball was dead when I decided in my head, not when I blew the whistle". In the vast majority of cases, should a second...

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...

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...

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...