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Questions & Answers for "" 1 - 10 of Law 3 - The Players 11/20/2024Philip Harraway of Simi Valley, CA USA asks...Can a player leave the field for the purpose of completing a move begun by that player in order to avoid opposition players. I am referring to passing movements such as the give-and-go or overlap.
I would suggest that this type of movemen...
Read The Full Q & A Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 11/19/2024Ken of Santa Barbara, Ca USA asks...Charge vs shoulder to shoulder - defending player approx. 2 feet from attacking player There is movement from both but defender knocks down the attacker. To make it more interesting, this occurs inside the penalty area. I called ...
Read The Full Q & A Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 11/16/2024Petr of Prague, Czech Republic Czech Republic asks...Hello,
one 'holding' question please.
The Premier League website says this:
'Where both players are involved in simultaneous and similar actions (mutual holding), play should be allowed to continue.'
Situat...
Read The Full Q & A Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 11/13/2024Petr of Prague, Czech Republic Czech Republic asks...Hello,
I have a slightly more general question this time. :-)
I will try to demonstrate it on two situations.
Situation 1:
The ball flies into the penalty area. The goalkeeper jumps into the air and catches...
Read The Full Q & A Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 11/5/2024Richard of Seattle, WA USA asks...Substitutes penalized, but not the team? Doesn’t seem fair, given two red card offenses....
Read The Full Q & A Law 4 - The Players Equipment 11/2/2024ISHIAKU IBRAHIM of Lokoja, Kogi Nigeria asks...Good day sir. A player goes to the touch line when The ball was not in play to receive a phone call or to reply a message sent to him on his phone and continues the game after receiving his call or responding to the message. During all this, the...
Read The Full Q & A High School 10/31/2024DAVID LOVETT of Royal Palm Beach, FL United States asks...I have a NFHS question. The throw in rules for high school say it has to be thrown in, in on continuous movement. So, I think this could be interpreted a couple of different ways. One is, what if the player starts the throw and decides his teammate i...
Read The Full Q & A High School 10/31/2024R. Banks of New York, New York USA asks...The attacker has control of the ball and is tripped from behind by the last defender at the 18. The keeper is at the penalty spot at the time of the occurrence. Is criteria four met even if the keeper is 6 yards away from the attacking player? Read The Full Q & A High School 10/30/2024Stacey Curley of Voorheesville , NY USA asks...Can a coach contest a goal? I have 2 videos from a game. Ref waved off a goal that clearly was a clean goal. Another goal was considered a goal but did not cross the line per video.
Any assistance is appreciated.
K...
Read The Full Q & A Mechanics 10/28/2024Martin WAIN of Bradford, West Yorkshire United Kingdom asks...Hi,
I suspect the controversy of VAR in football will never be solved.Looking at the latest incident in the West Ham v Man Utd game on Oct 27th.
The onfield referee clearly saw the coming together of the 2 players in the penalty...
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