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:
· denies an opponent an obvious goal-scoring opportunity by committing an offence which was an attempt to play the ball or a challenge for the ball and the referee awards a penalty kick
Verdicts that turn on it 7
Walk a practice scenario to any of these and this clause is part of the answer.
- Penalty kick + yellow card: denied a goal-scoring opportunity, attempt at the ballfoul-sanction
- An indirect or direct free kick, or a penalty kickoff-the-ball
- On the nearest boundary line, and a penalty if that is inside their own areaoff-the-ball
- Direct free kick where the object struck, or would haveoff-the-ball
- Direct free kick, or a penalty kickoff-the-ball
- Direct free kick, or a penalty kickoff-the-ball
- Holding: a direct free kick, or a penalty kick in the offender's own areaoff-the-ball
Explained in the rules library 2
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Questions that ask it 1
Points in a walk where the reader is deciding this provision.
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