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DavidObs said:
Sorry to be a pain James, but the Laws of the Game state free kicks to be direct & indirect free kicks to be exactly that. So when the final words of your law quote states free kicks, this would mean direct, though in the clip, the Referee awarded an indirect free kick, but sent the goalkeeper off. I may just be tired - long day.
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Not sure I understand, I'm critical of the law being worded badly in places, but not here, it couldn't really be any more clear.
 
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DavidObs said:
Sorry to be a pain James, but the Laws of the Game state free kicks to be direct & indirect free kicks to be exactly that.
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Where does it say that?
There are direct free kicks and indirect free kicks.
Where law does not prefix with either then it refers to free kicks that are both direct and indirect.
 
DavidObs said:
Sorry to be a pain James, but the Laws of the Game state free kicks to be direct & indirect free kicks to be exactly that. So when the final words of your law quote states free kicks, this would mean direct, though in the clip, the Referee awarded an indirect free kick, but sent the goalkeeper off. I may just be tired - long day.
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I'd say long day is where it is :D

Law 12 DOGS says any "free kick" offence. Law 13 says "free kick" can be direct or indirect. Referee awarded a an indirect "free kick" so it can apply to law 12 DOGSO which the keeper can be sent off for. What is the issue?

The change was made in 20/21 laws for this exact scenario so the keepers can be sent off (previously keepers could not be sanctioned for anything that involved handling).

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Runner Ref said:
I’ve literally just been having a read through that. Seems that indirect free kicks were in place before direct free kicks. I’m in reading it correctly.
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Yes, in fact originally all free kicks were indirect. The first mention of free kicks was in 1872, for handling offences. The law stated that a goal could not be scored from such a free kick. In 1874, free kicks were added for offside, tripping, hacking, holding and pushing (all still indirect).

Direct free kicks were only introduced in 1903, for intentionally tripping, kicking, jumping at, holding, pushing, pulling or illegally charging an opponent and for handling the ball.

The law at that point said that all other free kicks were indirect (the kick off, corner kicks and goal kicks were classified as free kicks).

Just to mention that penalty kicks were introduced in 1891, but they were not classified as free kicks under the law.

All this info can be found in Wikisource, which has "reconstituted" copies of all the early editions of the Laws of the Game.

For instance, for the 1872 Laws, the link is:

https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Laws_of_the_Game_(1872)

For the other laws, you can just change the year in the URL as needed.
 
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JamesL said:
A guess would be due to a difference between physical and technical offences.

@Peter Grove any knowledge of the history here?
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There's nothing I've seen that explains the reason for the two types of free kick, there's just a timeline of when they were introduced, as given above.

But I would imagine there's an element of getting the punishment to fit the crime.
 
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