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:
· an opponent – an indirect or direct free kick or penalty kick
Verdicts that turn on it 9
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
- Red card, and play restarts according to the previous decisionfoul-sanction
- Penalty kick + yellow card: showing a lack of respect for the gamefoul-sanction
- An indirect or direct free kick, or a penalty kickoff-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
- Where did the offence happen?foul-sanction
- Against whom?off-the-ball
- Did the offence happen off the field of play?off-the-ball
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