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Mechanics 9/27/2014

Phil of Tarzana, CA United States asks...

In a U12 game, red attacker was dribbling toward the penalty area. Right at the penalty area, the GK grabbed the attacker's shirt. It happened so fast, I couldn't tell whether it was inside the penalty area.

However, the red attacker kept ...

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Mechanics 9/21/2014

Alex of San Francisco , Ca USA asks...

Hi all, really glad I came across this site

My question is , what's the correct mechanics for the following situation

Say I am the AR , and the ball briefly passes the goal line for a goal , and comes back into play. Do I raise my f...

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Mechanics 9/21/2014

Jess of Long Island, NY USA asks...

The ref handed out a red card today. After the opposing coach walked onto the field and spoke to him the ref then went and spoke to his AR. After that, he reversed the red card and continued play.
Is it legal/acceptable to Red Card a player, hav...

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Mechanics 9/20/2014

Ross of Pasadena, CA USA asks...

In my son's U14 game several players on the opposing team started shouting (quite loudly) out the 'referee's calls'. e.g. OUT, HANDBALL, and if their player fell for whatever reason 'HE PUSHED HIM', 'HE KICKED HIM' etc etc
Initially this was j...

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Mechanics 9/19/2014

DHB of Boston area, MA USA asks...

Referee has blown the whistle to award a caution for a reckless tackle. Can the offended team take a quick restart, or must they wait until the caution has been issued and noted and a whistle given? If they can take a quick restart, when does the ref...

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Mechanics 9/15/2014

Mitch of Ottawa, Ontario Canada asks...

I recently awarded a penalty and one of the defending players yelled that I gave a penalty 'against the black team'. I only verbally admonished the player and told him that I would write him up (which I did: I submitted a special incident report).
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Mechanics 9/11/2014

Thomas Nguyen of Garden Grove, CA United States asks...

Dear Mr. Ref,

I have 2 questions:

1. If the ball goes out of bound and is not being played while out of of bound by any players, is the assistant ref required to raise the flag straight up first and then to give the direction for th...

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Mechanics 9/9/2014

Jay LaFountain of Coldwater, MI USA asks...

To clarify this for you: The reason I ask how is because I know WHAT to do most of the time. I think WHAT to do is pretty easy with regards to the LOTG in a majority of cases, but find as an AR that HOW TO DO IT is the problem that comes up. I'm s...

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Mechanics 9/7/2014

Jay LaFountain of Coldwater, MI USA asks...

Hello again!

Thanks for the wonderfully long answers to my question and all the extra advice.

Yesterday I did my first match as AR. In preparation I have been studying the laws of the game, well, way too much. But anyway, a situat...

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Mechanics 8/24/2014

adam wallace of NAKAYAMA, yamagata japan asks...

i have a followup question to ref wickhams answer.as i understood it as long as the ref doesnt start measuring the dist out and just tells the defence to move back then this does not become a ceremonial freekick..
ref wickhams answer indicates th...

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