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  1. The IFAB has released a 48 page book outlining the details of the changes. The change to the DOGSO law applies to all players, not just goalkeepers

    Where a player denies the opposing team a goal or an obvious goal-scoring

     

    opportunity by a deliberate handball offence the player is sent off wherever the

     

    offence occurs.

     

    Where a player commits an offence against an opponent within their own

     

    penalty area which denies an opponent an obvious goal-scoring opportunity and

     

    the referee awards a penalty kick, the offending player is cautioned unless:

     

     

     

    • The offence is holding, pulling or pushing or

     

    • The offending player does not attempt to play the ball or there is no

     

     

     

     

    possibility for the player making the challenge to play the ball or

     

     

     

    • The offence is one which is punishable by a red card wherever it occurs on

     

     

     

     

    the field of play (e.g. serious foul play, violent conduct etc.)

     

    In all the above circumstances the player is sent off.

  2. I find it really difficult to believe that in a major international tournament like this that 5th and 6th officials aren't used.

    If they had, then there would never had been an issue with the Peru "goal". It would have been picked up by the official on the goal line, a yellow card issued and a free kick to Brazil.

    Decision made, no controversy, and the game would just have continued.

  3. It does happen that both the ref and A/R can be unsighted at the same time. If you look at the position of the hand in relation to the body, the head is obscuring the hand when viewed from the position the A/R would be in on the touchline at the time. The fourth official's duties mean that he isn't necessary watching the field all the time.

  4. Definately not a penalty. It was shoulder to shoulder outside the box and it was the momentum from the fall by the thistle player that caused the contact indside the box. The only way it could have been given was if it had been a careless, reckless etc challenge, but there wasn't a challenge after the initial shoulder charge.

  5. I'm surprised no one has commented on this from the Spurs Sunderland game at the weekend.

    What has surprised me even more, but shouldn't, have been the comments from some members of the general public on various media websites actually AGREEING that Vertongen was offside, even when Law 11 has been quoted to them. He was inside his own half when the ball was played to him, so, and all media commentators surprisingly agreed, there was no way he could be offside. Even if he had been in his opponents half when he received the ball, he would still have been onside.

  6. Altho' this funny free kick despite all the dummy runs was taken quite quickly is there not an element of time wasting involved?

    Not really. As you said it was taken quite quickly and the ball was kicked only 4 seconds after the whistle was blown. If players were booked that quickly for time wasting then the number of yellow cards shown would escalate dramatically.

  7. it was some goal, but I don't think it should have been allowed to stand

     

    Back then the ball had to actually be kicked, but as this had never been done before it created a lot of confusion. Now there are clear guidelines, and this is legal nowadays. In the interpreation of the laws and guidlines for referees (which is a lot longer than the actual laws) it states "A free kick can be taken by lifting the ball with a foot or both feet simultaneously"

  8. This section of the law was changed years ago (about 1997/8). The ball only needs to be kicked and move (no minimum distance) for it to be in play, subject to the provisions of the defence taking any dead ball kick in their own penalty area where the ball must clear the area as well as moving before it's in play.

  9. Goals kicks yes, but not necessarily all free kicks according to the section on Free Kicks in "Interpretation of the Laws of

    the Game and Guidelines for Referees".

     

     

    "Distance

    If a player decides to take a free kick quickly and an opponent who is less

    than 9.15 m (10 yds) from the ball intercepts it, the referee must allow play to

    continue.

    If a player decides to take a free kick quickly and an opponent who is near the

    ball deliberately prevents him taking the kick, the referee must caution the

    player for delaying the restart of play.

    If, when a free kick is taken by the defending team from inside its own penalty

    area, one or more opponents remain inside the penalty area because the

    defender decides to take the kick quickly and the opponents did not have time

    to leave the penalty area, the referee must allow play to continue."

     

    I never knew this either until I looked it up just now.

     

    Your copy/paste is absolutely correct, but ALL free kicks taken by the defending team inside their own penalty area MUST be kicked directly out the penalty area. The ball remains out of play until this happens.

    As soon as the ball is IN PLAY it's fair game, unless the opponent tries to prevent the free kick being taken, but the ball must be in play to allow play to continue.

    However, as mentioned before, when a free kick is taken by the defending team inside it's own penalty area, the ball MUST directly leave the penalty area after being kicked to be in play. If it's touched by a player of EITHER side inside the penalty area after it's been kicked but before it leaves the penalty area, then the kick MUST be retaken.

    The last paragraph you quote relates to all opposing players being outside the penalty area until the ball is in play.

     

    copy/paste from law 13

    Free kick inside the penalty area

    Direct or indirect free kick to the defending team:

    • all opponents must be at least 9.15 m (10 yds) from the ball

    • all opponents must remain outside the penalty area until the ball is in play

    the ball is in play when it is kicked directly out of the penalty area

    • a free kick awarded in the goal area may be taken from any point inside

    that area

  10. I've just been watching the highlights of the West Ham v QPR game where Sakho had a goal chalked off after the QPR keeper took a free kick in his own penalty area. The ball went straight to Sakho who was still inside the penalty area and he put it in the net, but it was correctly disallowed.

    What amazed me was the commentator stating that he thought he wasn't 10 yards from the ball.

    The problem here is that so many people believe what commentators say about the laws of the game as being completely correct, even when they they are 100% wrong.

    All free kicks taken by the defence in their own penalty area, as well as goal kicks, the ball must LEAVE the penalty area before it is in play. The ball wasn't in play in this instance, so the free kick had to be retaken.

     

    copy/paste from the laws of the game

     

    If, when a free kick is taken by the defending team from inside its own penalty

    area, the ball is not kicked directly out of the penalty area:

    • the kick is retaken

     

    Rant over

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