A real-life football referee has to be familiar with allLaws of the Game. Before a match can start it is the referee’s duty to take care of all participants and inspect the pitch and players to ensure a safe game. Here is a quick to-do list for the referee before refs allows game...
Pro football has always been a few-holds-barred enterprise, but the Pats seem to glory in testing boundaries and flouting rules — whether it’s videotaping defensive signals, fooling with the air pressure in balls or some other bit of only-whispered-about subterfuge. I mean, we get it, f...
As the ball swept long from midfield, visiting keeper Maximilian Schwartz, brillinatly tipped the ball over. The resulting corner was headed over. Through on goal, Benrath’s Kingsley Onomah Annointing was ajudged offside by the referee.It should be noted that at this level in Germany, there ...
A dead ball is ready for play when the Referee sounds the whistle and signals "ready for play" (S1) Catch A catch is the act of establishing player possession of a live ball in flight and contacting ground inbounds while maintaining possession of the ball. ...
followed by 36 pages of Referee Signals and a 24-page Directive about Mini-Rugby, plus odd pages advertising video tapes. Some of all this might have been useful to the referee, in which case it should have been in the Laws. If it wasn't useful, it had no place in the Lawbook . ...