1. Direct free kick
The provision as it is printed, and everything on Ruleside that turns on it.
If an offence involves contact, it is penalised by a direct free kick.
· Using excessive force is when a player exceeds the necessary use of force and/or endangers the safety of an opponent and must be sent off
Explained in the rules library 9
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Applied in these incidents 4
Real decisions where this clause decided what should have happened.
Questions that ask it 1
Points in a walk where the reader is deciding this provision.
A threshold you can weigh 1
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