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Law 1- The Field 8/6/2016

cesar sanchez of titusville, florida United States asks...

What is the dimension of a penalty mark?...

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Law 8 - Start and Restart of Play 8/6/2016

Matt Noah of Fargo, ND USA asks...

This references a kick-off. The video of the kick-off can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUCj5Sas20c&t=35m30s starting at around the 35:45 mark.

The team in white clearly is not in their half of the field for the kick-off. Af...

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Law 13 - Free Kicks 8/5/2016

Steve of Perth, Western Australia Australia asks...

What I love about this game is how it often throws up situations that I have never encountered before.

I was refereeing an adult ladies' game recently. It was played in very good spirit with few fouls or problems. I gave a free kick to th...

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Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 8/3/2016

Mike of Lebanon, CT USA asks...

I had a situation of two players jumping up for a ball, only in this case one was the keeper. Ball coming in on a high lob, attacker in PA with back to goal watching ball coming in, keeper comes over attacker's back with one hand on shoulder and whi...

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Kicks From The Penalty mark 8/3/2016

Marx Johndonbok Nongsiej of Shillong, Meghalaya India asks...

if during kicks from penalty mark a player feinting do we have to cancel the goal? because in a penalty we have to caution and award an indirect fk to the opponent,but what about in the kicks from penalty mark...

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Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 8/3/2016

russell of Sydney, Australia asks...

Following on from the question from Bob of DC regarding jumping fouls, this is an area that I too can often struggle with, or at least, the players struggle with my call / no call of these situations :)

Like Bob, I need to evaluate if it is ...

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Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 8/1/2016

Robert of Oakville, Ontario Country asks...

Attacker falls to the ground inside the opposing team's penalty area for a reason that is not committed by a foul (i.e. injury). Defender accidentally steps on the attacker's hand. LOTG do not mention stepping on an opponent. I understand that you co...

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Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 8/1/2016

Robert of Oakville, Ontario Country asks...

Defender inside his own penalty area spits at an opponent outside the penalty area. Is it a direct free kick or penalty kick? What about defender outside and attacker inside?

Thanks! :)...

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Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 7/31/2016

John Andrews of Cygnet, Tasmania Australia asks...

What can a player call or not call? eg can a player call out 'mine' or is that still penalised?...

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Law 11 - Offside 7/30/2016

Freya of Denver, Colorado USA asks...

My question is about what constitutes a 'rebound' to a player in an offside position.

In the recent (29 July 2016) Spurs v. Athletico game, Godin in an offside position scored a goal after the ball came off a defender's head.

Presum...

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