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    Was This Goalscoring Opportunity Obvious?

    If the player had gone down, I definitely would have gone with the send-off straight away. The reason it didn't come was honestly thought that they were both moving slowly, and if the foul hadn't occurred, the defender probably would have recovered and covered the goal. I only played on because...
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    Was This Goalscoring Opportunity Obvious?

    It was a one-sentence answer, based on how long play had continued rather than the substance of what had been described. Compare it to your answer, and the one before that from es1. However, this seems to me to be more a defence of who was answering rather than what was said. If that's what...
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    Was This Goalscoring Opportunity Obvious?

    So you believe that was enough for an obvious goalscoring opportunity, in spite of the distance to the ball when the offence occurred?
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    Was This Goalscoring Opportunity Obvious?

    Thanks. Based on the reaction of players on both teams, the crowd noise, and my assistants, the foul decision was correct, so your experience lets you down here. So back to the topic at hand, was a caution correct, or should a send-off have been applied, given that a foul was called?
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    Was This Goalscoring Opportunity Obvious?

    FWIW I went with penalty kick and caution for unsporting behaviour for committing a foul for the purpose of breaking up a promising attack. There were no complaints about the penalty kick, but there was some questioning as to why a caution was required. I let it go for a second or two to see if...
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    New Law - "misconduct...against...match official – a direct free kick or penalty kick"

    Well, if it doesn't clearly state that the FAQ has precedence, and is available in combined form on the website, with the inconsistent wording still in the body of the text, you don't think that's going to be very confusing for a large number of referees?
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    Was This Goalscoring Opportunity Obvious?

    Even at the point where the defender was clearly holding the attacker, preventing the attacker from getting to the ball, you don't think there was a foul there?
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    Striking YC/RC?

    I'll put it down to cultural differences.
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    Was This Goalscoring Opportunity Obvious?

    Does anyone else want to have a stab with a sensible answer?
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    New Law - "misconduct...against...match official – a direct free kick or penalty kick"

    And it says that where on the IFAB website / in the FAQ?
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    Was This Goalscoring Opportunity Obvious?

    I sometimes referee youth football when there is a lack of coverage in my area. Today I had an under 16s game, played at a social rather than competitive level. Ball is knocked over the top, and an attacker and defender are chasing after it, towards the goal. Just before they enter the penalty...
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    Goal Kick

    This feels different, because it's the opponents' restart. In this case it's simply their own restart they've delayed. I see your point of view, but I don't think I'd be cautioning for this.
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    New Law - "misconduct...against...match official – a direct free kick or penalty kick"

    No, never. But generally when a collection of documents are released, they are all given equal consideration.
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    Striking YC/RC?

    We are talking about the same thing, right? Ball, is out of play, and a player walks up behind an opponent and springs an index finger against a thumb and flicks them in the ear? You're surely having a laugh if you don't think that's violent conduct. If I was playing and someone did that to me...
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    Goal Kick

    Of course I'm reading the responses. I simply don't agree that this is an "offence". It's simply a procedure infringement, and like any other wrongly taken restart, the caution for delaying the restart should only be applied if it obviously delays the restart. I don't buy that this should be...
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    Goal Kick

    One of these things is not like the other. The ball is in play in this example, in the original example, it is not in play. If the ball is not in play, there is no chance or promising attack. If your standard for delaying the restart of play (ie. issuing a card without a warning) is the taker...
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    Striking YC/RC?

    The OP asked in relation to offences that normally attract a DFK when the ball is in play. I will update my original posting to make that clear. I honestly don't think it's possible to strike or push with negligible force. That sentence is an absurdity in the Laws and means nothing. Lightly...
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    New Law - "misconduct...against...match official – a direct free kick or penalty kick"

    While it seems unintuitive - in my industry, FAQs are quite commonly released at the same time as the formal document (such as a specification, directive, guide) that they refer to. The team tasked with developing the formal document will circulate the formal document internally, and then...
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    New Law - "misconduct...against...match official – a direct free kick or penalty kick"

    If this is the case, the why does it not clearly state in the FAQ that if there is any contradiction between the Laws and the FAQ that the FAQ takes precedence, as it supersedes the Laws? If I go to the IFAB website at present, the FAQ and Laws are presented as one combined document. There is...
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    Goal Kick

    I wouldn't be telling the defender's team that was what it was for, or you'll be expected to apply the same standard to every restart by an opponent that takes longer than the five to ten seconds that would be wasted by this. And rightly so.
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