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I'm not sure I agree that it is a caution. But I'm sure it would have been taken care of by rules setting up sin bins by the associations

Why would carelessness matter? It's a holding offence. You could ask 'was it trivial?' or 'did it in fact impede the attackers movement?', but it's just fundamentally wrong to import the notion of carelessness. Having looked at it, the arms of the defender don't look like they really dragging...

I don't think you would need to go back to the previous restart. Logically, the player is just being shown the caution later than he should have been - that doesn't mean the restart was incorrect. Imagine if R missed the flag, the goalkick is taken, and play continues until a foul is...

Is there a specific competition rule regarding how sin bins before KFTPM are dealt with? They wouldn't seem to me to fall under warnings or cautions, but nor are the send offs. Please bear in mind I have no experience with sinbins whatsoever

In Australia, if there are less than 30 seconds between lightning and clap then you head in for thirty minutes, restarting with every observed similar instance. Cricket introduced the policy first because there were not insignificant numbers of players being killed in low grade matches around...

I think you could show it at waist level. Everyone would get the point

Dead on. OFFINABUS conduct (rather than gesture) now, fits very nicely imo

The takeaway has to be to count the players before commencing KFTPM! I really doubt that a player would become injured enough to be incapable of taking a penalty only after KFTPM begins! Like, you'd have to lose a leg.

On a more mundane note, did anyone see the restart of play? Unusual (by EPL standards) that he stopped play to flick a manager so it would be interesting to know what happened next.

Gets really tricky when it's reckless or SPA, because you almost have to guess who it was who gets the booking. Pro-tip: if one of them has been booked already, guess very carefully

All this fuss about whether he interfered with an opponent when he was not even in an offside position! An absolute mess.

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Difference being it wasn't a shot that missed or was collected by the keeper. I wouldn't consider it trifling because it has removed the attacker as a viable passing option

Simply creating a chain of players? Why?

Dubbo here. Welcome aboard. The debriefing will come in the big boy matches when everyone's giving you a gobful. It's a thrill

Looking at the replay in this video there looks to be pretty heavy contact with the hand and fingers of Mendy. Perhaps that was the concern rather than any trivial contact with the torso. He does clutch at his hand first.

In France they'd give him a medal

1:39:00 But of a shame to send her off. Manager has done his level best to keep everyone behaved and I'm not sure you'd really say that the shirt was pulled over her head - perhaps in front of her head? Not sure I'd be pulling the book out there.

Problem is that a keeper taking 34 seconds to release the ball, and instances prolonged dissent, impress no one

But speaking more generally, handball needn't be willing or deliberate, so them having been penalised is not evidence of the quality of the shot