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Retaliation Foul and Penalty Kick

Retaliation Foul and Penalty Kick

Retaliation fouls may occur from a build-up of frustration over time, but they often occur immediately after contact where a player perceives such contact to be a foul.

Penalty Kick Without Obvious Goal Scoring Opportunity

Penalty Kick Without Obvious Goal Scoring Opportunity

When faced with a challenge in the Penalty Area, the Referee must make a decision regarding not only foul or no-foul, but whether misconduct has occurred.

Indirect Free Kick Management and Goal Restart

Indirect Free Kick Management and Goal Restart

“Playing in a Dangerous Manner” is one of the infractions listed in Law 12 that requires an Indirect Free Kick restart.

Even referees’ brains have their limits

Even referees’ brains have their limits

It was the World Cup goal seen around the world but missed by the eyes that mattered most: England midfielder Frank Lampard’s shot that dropped cleanly past the German goal line but was not given by the referee.

Advantage on Shirt Pull

Advantage on Shirt Pull

Uniform (shirt/short) pulls are used in particular when a defender has just lost a challenge for the ball and begins chasing an attacker.

Reckless and Careless Fouls

Reckless and Careless Fouls

One of the key elements of managing the professional game is the distinction between fouls that are Careless and those that are Reckless.

World Cup referees outrun players

World Cup referees outrun players

For two years leading up to the World Cup, Brian Hall exercised four hours almost every day to make it to the World Cup as a referee.

FIFA to crack down on dangerous tackles

FIFA to crack down on dangerous tackles

The FIFA medical chief has a message for World Cup players: You’ll pay for bone-crunching tackles.

IFAB Changes Law 14, Bans Feinting in a PK

IFAB Changes Law 14, Bans Feinting in a PK

Penalty-takers at the World Cup will not be able to feint as they are about to kick the ball.

Refs Are Gunning for Tall Guys

Refs Are Gunning for Tall Guys

Scientists assert tall people get the short end of the stick in situations when a referee calls a foul.




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