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Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 7/4/2007

Kyle Kenney of Ontario , Canada asks...

I have a couple of goaltender questions..

1. The goalie doesn't release the ball within 6 seconds.. do I give the opposing team and INDFK at the edge of the box and a yellow to the goalie??

2. The ball is out of the 18yrbox and ...

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Law 11 - Offside 7/4/2007

Kyle Kenney of Ontario, Canada asks...

A ball is kicked to a player in an offside position, he realizes that he's in an offside position and doesn't attempt to play the ball and backs away.

A defender comes along and plays the ball, then the attacker comes to challenge and play...

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Law 11 - Offside 7/4/2007

Kyle Kenney of Ontario, Canada asks...

Another offside question..

I drew an illustration for my question:
http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/7121/balluv6.png

If the attacker (Red) passes the ball to another attacker (Player A) who's in an offside position.. but ...

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Law 5 - The Referee 7/4/2007

Dave Petrenko of Montreal, QC Canada asks...

If a player is injured is the play stopped automatically ?

Does the team with the injured player require possesion of the ball for the play to stop or do they have to kick the ball out of bounds.
Can the opposite team score when thei...

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Law 5 - The Referee 7/3/2007

Leah of Thornton, Ontario Canada asks...

What happens if a player on the team you are refereing keeps pushing other players, you ask him to stop, but he keeps doing it, what do you do?...

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Law 6 - Assistant Referee 7/3/2007

Leah of Thornton, Ontario Canada asks...

What happens if one of your clublinesmen does not show up?...

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Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 7/3/2007

John Mccullough of Shelton, WA Mason asks...

can a plyer kick the ball over his head and catch it on his back between his arms
and proceed to move the ball up the field

the refs has allowed several times...

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League Specific 7/3/2007

John Mccullough of Shelton, WA Mason asks...

can a player kick the ball over his own head and the ball goes 5 to 10ft
behind him

our rules states no high kicks

the ref allowed this to happen several times...

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Law 3 - Number of Players 7/3/2007

Carol Taylor of Malone, NY USA asks...

My 11 year old team was in the first half of a Rec league game when a storm started to approach. As the thunder and lightning got closer the referee was still not suspending the game (referees discretion to continue the game). Suddenly one concerned ...

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Law 7 - Match Duration 7/3/2007

Rob Stuart of JHB, South Africa asks...

Having never officiated at a senior level this question has always perplexed me. Firstly like most refs I use a stopwatch to measure time. After the allowed time is shown I blow my whistle to end the half or match. How does a referee know that for ex...

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