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Law 3 - The Players 3/2/2018

Sarah of Miami Beach, Florida United States asks...

The other day my best friend who is the goalkeeper of her team had a game. From time to time her muscles shrink? I don't know if that's the term. The thing is that during the game she kept calling the referee and telling him that her muscle had shran...

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Law 14 - The Penalty kick 3/1/2018

Dan S of Minneapolis , MN USA asks...

Watching the recent game between Tottenham Hotspurs and Rochdale- Tottenham were awarded a PK after VAR confirmed a trip started outside the PA but continued inside. The striker taking the PK stopped his run up and then took another 2 paces and score...

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Law 11 - Offside 3/1/2018

MARV of Bowmanville, Ontario Canada asks...

Regarding Offside and the terms Save and Played. The term Save is fairly straightforward.

Played is defined as 'Action by a player which makes contact with the ball'.

In every 'non-save' situation where the defender makes contact ...

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Law 14 - The Penalty kick 3/1/2018

Chuck Love of Syracuse, NY USA asks...

In a recent interview former English referee Peter Walton stated that refs give keepers 'considerable leeway' to come off their line before a PK is actually taken. My questions are: 1) Is he correct? I've seen it time & again so just by anecdotal evi...

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Law 5 - The Referee 2/28/2018

Dave Bermingham of Herndon, Virginia United States asks...

Lots of VAR controversy in the FA Cup Tottenham v Rochedale match.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbF3cQbD-rE
Two questions: I'm having a problem seeing that the Referee and VAR Ref are being consistent in two of the early decisions. At 0...

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Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 2/26/2018

Barry Stewart of Chilliwack, BC Canada asks...

Interesting situation there.

It is assumed that the substitute player has entered the field of play, yet there is a way that he could have prevented the ball totally going out, without entering the field of play.

Since the ball has ...

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Law 5 - The Referee 2/26/2018

olivia of carindale, Queensland Australia asks...

The following items summarise your powers and duties as a referee. However we got a bit carried away and included some items that are not in the Laws. Your task is to check Law 5 (and possibly other relevant Laws) to discover which items are part of ...

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Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 2/25/2018

Jeff Banks Reiner of Captain Cook, HI USA asks...

When a goalkeeper is challenging for possession of the ball, are there restrictions on bringing their knee up when jumping for the ball?...

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Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 2/25/2018

MARK WILDING of Leioa, Spain asks...

Yesterday a substitute was warming up near to his goal and as the ball was going out safely for a goal kick, he chested the ball to his goal keeper.
The ref deemed the ball hadnt gone out so gave the offending player a yellow card and a indirect ...

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Law 8 - The Start and Restart of Play 2/24/2018

IBRAHIM ISHIAKU of LOKOJA, KOGI NIGERIAN asks...

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Team A starts the 2nd half but it's should been Team B's turn to take the kick off for the 2nd half. after 1mins of play the team B captain run to the referee and tell him that my team should have started the 2nd half because it's was ...

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