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If you can't dismiss then you can't caution for the same reason.

If I felt that someone had deliberately and wilfully ignored me, I would caution; if not I wouldn't. I certainly wouldn't treat the taking of the free kick before the whistle as a mandatory caution. If I felt that the ball hitting me in the back of the head had been done deliberately, I...

The usual insults and conviction that all players are out to get you! I really don't see how not booking a player for taking a FK before the whistle despite you ordering a retake (unless it is a very clear case of dissent, delaying the restart or lack of respect) will affect your match control...

You pretty much have...

No, just someone who doesn't see players as the enemy. If I don't think that someone has dissented or shown lack of respect for the game I won't caution them. Why would I? And why do you choose to insult me rather than answer the points that I made?

Why on earth would players keep taking FKs before the whistle when you have already demonstrated that it will be a re-take whether they get booked or not? If you believe that the kick is being taken to delay the re-start then you can caution for that but, beyond that, as you have said yourself...

It seems that SS's query is solved to everyone (apart from SS himself possibly;)). However...(super pedantry and unlikely situation alert)...if a player takes a throw where he does not have both feet on the ground and it touches the ground before it enters the FOP, then what? The law states...

Possibly, but my point is that it is not quite as straightforward as "incorrect - read the law". FWIW - I am with Minty on this...

Not so sure Capn. The law states: If the ball touches the ground before entering, the throw-in is retaken by the same team from the same position. If the throw-in is not taken correctly it is retaken by the opposing team. So in the OP's example the ball has touched the ground before entering...

So when the offside law said that a player was only offside for interfering with play if he played the ball at the same moment as a teammate played the ball you never gave offside for interfering? Or did you just accept that the law was badly phrased and implement the intent rather than the...

Red card correct - there was no attempt to play the ball.

Yes, that was largely my point - less diving=fewer preconcieved ideas about players and so fewer incorrect calls.

Yes, there will be as soon as players are punished for making mistakes...keeper fumbles a cross - yellow card; defender slices a clearance - yellow card; forward misses and open goal - red card; own goal - three match ban.

Yup. But as I said, I think that there will be fewer of these. Forestieri has a (well-deserved) reputation as a diver, a bit like Wilf Zaha and Ashley Young, so when he goes down refs are understandably slightly more ready to believe that he has dived, particularly as they or their colleagues...

It is certainly better to deal with it at the time but the problem is, as we all know, that it can be very difficult to be sure that someone has dived and it is a big call to effectively call a player a cheat. I think the effect of this will not be that lots of players will get caught diving...

I know the subject of CARs causes division on here but I would have thought that CARs giving correct decisions and then having to enlighten the ref as to the law would be quite a long way down anyone's list of the reasons to not take offside from them...

How would you manage additional time? If there were an injury would you tell the manager to change his piece of paper to, for example, 11:13. If one team started to waste time to the extent that you felt time should be added, how would you manage that? I can certainly imagine a scenario where...

It's still the law: An indirect free kick is awarded if a goalkeeper, inside their penalty area,commits any of the following offences: • controls the ball with the hands for more than six seconds before releasing it

My response to "I'm allowed an opinion," is "yes, but you're not allowed to share it with me."

But if he included a swear word it would be red? "you've ruined the bloody game" = red card?