This is the rule that is most consistently called wrong. I don't mean the refs make bad calls on the field: they, more often than not, get the call right but the ruling wrong. And every parent who played soccer on high school and thinks they know the rule from them is out of date as well.
If a last defender contacts an offensive player, there are only 3 outcomes (or maybe 3.5).
Those outcomes are:
1) No foul.
2) the foul was committed with the ball outside the box, a free kick is awarded and the fouling player is sent off.
3) the foul was committed inside the box, a PK is awarded and the fouling player is given a caution if it is a foul that does not involves a non-violent play at the ball and no holding, pushing or pulling.
3.5) if the foul was committed via violent conduct, holding, pulling or pushing, the ref may, at their discretion, award a PK and a red card.
Here is what cannot happen: a yellow card and a free kick outside of the box. There is no circumstance where a foul is committed on a denial of a goal scoring opportunity where this is the correct outcome. None. Yet that is called all the time.
The ruler change from nearly 3 years ago intended to prevent triple punishment for a fair foul in the box does not seem to have made it to every ref...
If a last defender contacts an offensive player, there are only 3 outcomes (or maybe 3.5).
Those outcomes are:
1) No foul.
2) the foul was committed with the ball outside the box, a free kick is awarded and the fouling player is sent off.
3) the foul was committed inside the box, a PK is awarded and the fouling player is given a caution if it is a foul that does not involves a non-violent play at the ball and no holding, pushing or pulling.
3.5) if the foul was committed via violent conduct, holding, pulling or pushing, the ref may, at their discretion, award a PK and a red card.
Here is what cannot happen: a yellow card and a free kick outside of the box. There is no circumstance where a foul is committed on a denial of a goal scoring opportunity where this is the correct outcome. None. Yet that is called all the time.
The ruler change from nearly 3 years ago intended to prevent triple punishment for a fair foul in the box does not seem to have made it to every ref...
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