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Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 10/15/2017

Aaron Speca of Virginia Beach, VA United States asks...

There's a lot going on with this play. There is a possible handball by Blue that is not called. Then there is a battle over the ball that ultimately resulted in a foul called against Blue. Based on the spot of the CR and the motion of the CR (off ...

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Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 10/15/2017

Jonathan Pyndell of Memphis , Tn USA asks...

What is the consequence if attacking player encroaches box before ball is played?...

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League Specific 10/15/2017

Gabriel Ramirez of West Windsor, NJ USA asks...

12 minutes to end the game, team A has two coaches carded on the team area. One coach start yelling in a an abusive language. The ball goes out of bounds, I stop the game approach the coach, ask him to stop his behavior. He continues yelling, at this...

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Law 15 - The Throw In 10/15/2017

Russell of Sydney, Australia asks...

A rare occasion a throw-in is pulled up.

Watching this live, I wondered why it was called.
Ref Martin Atkinson (an excellent Ref I like watching) gesturing why he called it.

Watching the replay, I'm still a perplexed.
I thi...

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Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 10/15/2017

Russell of Sydney, Australia asks...

In the Recent Liverpool v ManU was there an off the FOP incident unnoticed.

Fast forward to the 9.00 mark of the coverage in the below link (or 5.18 of the actual match time).

Was there a holding foul by the ManU player while there ...

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Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 10/13/2017

Aaron Speca of Virginia Beach, VA United States asks...

This one is much less clear-cut to me than the last one. This was called a foul (in the box resulting in a PK) against the blue defender. Looked more to me like #30 red initiated the charge and then just fell, more like a no call.

https://...

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Law 11 - Offside 10/13/2017

Phil of Tarzana, CA United States asks...

I'm confused about something referee Peter Grove said. Why would it matter if the 2nd to last defender had part of his body in front of the line? For offside position, you compare the 2nd to last defender's body part (that can play the ball) that's...

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Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 10/13/2017

Barry Stewart of Chilliwack, BC Canada asks...

Responses to the video example mention that the defender didn't get a touch on the ball.

Even if he had knocked the ball clear, isn't this one of those cases where the ball was cleared but the attacker was also wiped out?...

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Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 10/12/2017

Aaron Speca of Virginia Beach, VA United States asks...

So, a couple of questions on this play.

1) How lucky is #2 white that no penalty was called on this play? LOL ...

2) Let's say a penalty was called and with #2 white being the last defender, it would have met prior criteria for a ...

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Law 4 - The Players Equipment 10/11/2017

Sophie of Sydney , N.s.w Australia asks...

Can you wear fake nails? ...

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