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:
· commits any other offence which interferes with or stops a promising attack, except where the referee awards a penalty kick for an offence which was an attempt to play the ball or a challenge for the ball
Verdicts that turn on it 15
Walk a practice scenario to any of these and this clause is part of the answer.
- Penalty kick + yellow card: stopped a promising attackfoul-sanction
- Penalty kick, no card: promising attack stopped by an attempt at the ballfoul-sanction
- Direct free kick + yellow card: stopped a promising attackfoul-sanction
- No red card: the force was negligiblefoul-sanction
- Indirect free kick: playing in a dangerous manneroff-the-ball
- An indirect or direct free kick, or a penalty kickoff-the-ball
- A direct free kick, or a penalty kickoff-the-ball
- Indirect free kickoff-the-ball
- On the nearest boundary line, and a penalty if that is inside their own areaoff-the-ball
- Indirect free kick on the nearest boundary lineoff-the-ball
- Direct free kick where the object struck, or would haveoff-the-ball
- Direct free kick, or a penalty kickoff-the-ball
- Indirect free 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 4
The plain-language pages that build on this provision.
Applied in these incidents 4
Real decisions where this clause decided what should have happened.
Questions that ask it 4
Points in a walk where the reader is deciding this provision.
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