Cautions for unsporting behaviour
The provision as it is printed, and everything on Ruleside that turns on it.
There are different circumstances when a player must be cautioned for unsporting behaviour, including if a player:
· handles the ball to interfere with or stop a promising attack, except where the referee awards a penalty kick for a non-deliberate handball offence
Verdicts that turn on it 8
Walk the tree to any of these and this clause is part of the answer.
- Handball: deliberate touch after deflectionhandball
- Handball: deliberatehandball
- Handball: unnatural positionhandball
- Handball: arm extended before fallhandball
- Handball: arm above shoulder in jumphandball
- Handball: arm held unnaturally while runninghandball
- Handball: arms raised in wallhandball
- Caution: handling to stop a promising attack, unless a penalty follows a non-deliberate handballmisconduct
Explained in the rules library 2
The plain-language pages that build on this provision.
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