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What if there are three dives?

Firstly, whether or not a foul has occurred is defined by the referee's interpretation of an incident, so a video ref would be a no no, without completely re-writing the laws of the game. Video replays must be watched by the referee or else the law book goes out the window and the replacement...

But there being no contact doesn't mean there's no foul. A foul is determine by how much concern the challenge shows for an opponent's safety. A challenge becomes a foul if it is reckless, careless, or uses excessive force. And there being no contact doesn't mean it's a dive. To have someone...

Offside, fine. But diving requires judging intent, and determining how much of the fall is due to momentum that carried someone over, if there was a degree of contact that is acceptable to the referee to deem it not a dive - those are opinions that are meant to be decided by the referee.

Because the laws are mostly "in the opinion of the referee...", the referee may simply have a different opinion to the assistant in the stands (we frequently see commentators and "expert" analysts disagree with each other after looking at replays, so two refs disagreeing doesn't necessarily mean...

How much time has to elapse between the suspect offside decision and the goal? What if possible offside leads to a shot, the shot is tipped over the bar, corner, crossed in, cleared by a defender, retrieved, shot saved, corner, goal. Do we then go back and look at the offside that may have...

But if the red card is dependent on whether the penalty is scored you will get teams who are missing penalties to get opponents sent off to give themselves an advantage. You also have the issue of one player being banned for three games because his foul resulted in a missed penalty so he got...

The whole thing of making players leave the pitch if they have treatment was introduced to reduce the amount of feigned injuries that were used to waste time. I seem to remember it being a big thing at one of the early nineties world cups. I always shake my head at those pundits who question why...