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High School 10/8/2024RE: High School Angel of Glassboro , New jersey US asks...Can a ref take back a goal if he forgot to blow the whistle to end the game. ...
Read The Full Q & A Law 7 - The Duration of the Match 10/8/2024RE: Competitive or Pro Adult Elly of Melbourne , Victoria Australia asks...A player goes down injured in the 44th (or 89th) minute. He requires treatment on the pitch, which takes a full minute or two, or perhaps longer. This means that the 45th/90th minute arrives BEFORE play has resumed.
My question is, given that this will result in additional "stoppage time", when should the 4th official announce how many additional minutes will be played?
Should he announce the decision as "usual" (i.e. as soon as the 45th or 90th minute arrives), even though the time to be added on is not yet clear?
OR, should he wait until play is ready to resume (when he now knows exactly how much extra time is to be played) before announcing his decision, even if this is a few minutes AFTER the end of regulation tim...
Read The Full Q & A Law 5 - The Referee 10/6/2024RE: U23 Adult Neil Fryatt of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk UK asks...Can a referee issue a red card after the game and off the pitch whilst walking back to the changing rooms and not speaking to or notifying the person what the red card is for? The referee was approximately 10yrds from the person concerned and no communication had or was happening between them at the time of the card being shown....
Read The Full Q & A Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 10/6/2024RE: Rec Adult Steve of Stockport, Greater Manchester England asks...At 45:47 Maddison takes 4 seconds to position the ball for a free kick, at 45:54 the referee blows the whistle to take the free kick. 45:56 re-positions the ball, why is this not handball ?...
Read The Full Q & A Law 18 - Common Sense 10/4/2024Petr of Prague, Czech Republic Czech Republic asks...Hello,
one more special question please. :-)
The goalkeeper has the ball:
A. between the leg and ground
B. between the body and ground
C. between the leg and the body
D. between the legs above the ground
Can the opponent kick the ball?
Thank you very much!...
Read The Full Q & A Law 14 - The Penalty kick 10/4/2024Petr of Prague, Czech Republic Czech Republic asks...Hello,
I'm annoying again. Two penalty kick questions please.
Question 1:
Part of Law 14:
- 'The defending goalkeeper must remain on the goal line, facing the kicker, between the goalposts, until the ball is kicked.'
- When the ball is kicked, the defending goalkeeper must have at least part of
one foot touching, in line with, or behind, the goal line.
It doesn't make sense to me. He must remain on the goal line. But he can also have both feet behind the goal line. So when can he move behind the line? After the whistle?
Note: Yesterday in the match Pilsen vs. Ludogorets goalkeeper Jedlicka stood behind the line almost the entire time. The referee didn't deal with ...
Read The Full Q & A Law 5 - The Referee 10/2/2024RE: High School Matt of Gettysburg, PA USA asks...In a recent game, the keeper for our team went down injured, do to a collision with a member of the opposite team. No foul was whistled. The refs allowed play to continue for probably 15-20 seconds, until the other team scored (with our keeper still down). Clearly, you can't say anything - without video - about whether or not a foul should have been called for the collision with the keeper. But shouldn't the refs have stopped play, or waved off the goal, because our keeper was down? The goal was allowed to stand, our keeper received treatment for a few minutes, but was able to keep playing. I know that for field players, if they go down injured, the ref typically waits until there's a natural stoppage of play (such as a ball going out o...
Read The Full Q & A Mechanics 10/2/2024Crebs Crem of Zagreb, Croatia asks...Hello,
In a game where VAR exists, player A4 commits a serious foul on player B9 when B9 is one on one with the goalkeeper. However, there was a foul by player B5 on player A10 in the attacking phase of play. In this case, should VAR intervene and let the CR watch the foul of player B5 on player A10?
...
Read The Full Q & A Law 6 - The Other Match Oficials 10/1/2024Tyler of Vancouver, Bc Canada asks...Hello,
The other day while I was reffing I noticed one of my ARs using his hand (the hand free of his flag) to signal towards the goal line. I’ve seen this signal before, but I’ve never seen or heard anything of what it actually means. I can’t find anything either while searching online.
There seems to be a pattern every time I see it, it looks like maybe they’re signalling to show that a player is onside. Every time I look over at my AR to see if they’re signalling for offside, when there was a close offside, they’re doing this signal.
But I’m not too sure, and would also like to know if I should be doing this while ARing, so I would really appreciate if you could clarify this for me. Thanks. ...
Read The Full Q & A Law 7 - The Duration of the Match 9/29/2024RE: Competitive Adult David Little of Milton Keynes , Bucks UK asks...Saw a match this afternoon. In the last minute the goalkeeper elbows an opposition player in the face. Referee gives the goalie a red card. He doesn't award a penalty but instead blows the final whistle to end the match.
His explanation was that the time on his watch had run out.
Should he have awarded a penalty?
Dave...
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