5. Restart of play after fouls and misconduct
The provision as it is printed, and everything on Ruleside that turns on it.
If the ball is out of play, play is restarted according to the previous decision. If the ball is in play and a player commits a physical offence inside the field of play against:
Verdicts that turn on it 16
Walk a practice scenario to any of these and this clause is part of the answer.
- Penalty kick + red card: violent conductfoul-sanction
- Direct free kick + red card: violent conductfoul-sanction
- Penalty kick + red card: serious foul playfoul-sanction
- Penalty kick + yellow card: reckless challengefoul-sanction
- Penalty kick + yellow card: stopped a promising attackfoul-sanction
- Penalty kick, no card: careless foulfoul-sanction
- No red card: the force was negligiblefoul-sanction
- Red card, and play restarts according to the previous decisionfoul-sanction
- No free kick and no card: the ball was out of playfoul-sanction
- Yellow card, and play restarts according to the previous decisionfoul-sanction
- Yellow card for a lack of respect, and play restarts according to the previous decisionfoul-sanction
- Restarted according to the previous decisionoff-the-ball
- An indirect or direct free kick, or a penalty kickoff-the-ball
- A direct free kick, or a penalty kickoff-the-ball
- Penalty kick + yellow card: showing a lack of respect for the gamefoul-sanction
- Indirect free kick on the nearest boundary lineoff-the-ball
Applied in these incidents 2
Real decisions where this clause decided what should have happened.
Questions that ask it 7
Points in a walk where the reader is deciding this provision.
- Where did it happen, and was the ball in play?foul-sanction
- Where did the offence happen?foul-sanction
- Where did the offence happen?foul-sanction
- Where did the offence happen?foul-sanction
- What kind of offence, and against whom?off-the-ball
- Against whom?off-the-ball
- Did the offence happen off the field of play?off-the-ball
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