Time play

1) In generalTime play in general is a most annoying matter, as the reader can certainly confirm. First of all, it is necessary to describe a few observations and, as usual, to get to the bottom of the matter – even if it is a psychological one. First of all, it is almost a certainty…

What is a punishment?

This section here is intended to be a preliminary consideration of a fundamental nature, dealing with the question of a real “punishment”, the purpose of which is to actually banish certain breaches of the rules from annoying everyday football by making the punishment more severe… In order to break a child of a certain, undesirable…

The advantage rule

1) A few preliminary considerations In principle, of course, it is not only a good idea to decide on advantage in certain situations, but it is in itself a matter of course. You only have to imagine this simple situation, where an attacker nevertheless remains in a favourable attacking situation after a clearly recognisable foul…

Goalkeeper hand

Aliens in football? Goalkeeper tees Überhupt In this chapter, a new risk is taken: something is postulated without actually knowing the background, or more concretely, one could also say without knowing the rule text. The risk is to put oneself in the shoes of an alien, or even just a football alien, and to try…

Goalkeeper protection

One rule states that the goalkeeper is given special protection in the five-metre area, so that if he is even touched, tackled, jumped on, pushed away or whatever – i.e. a number of attacks that would not otherwise be punished outside this area – he is awarded a free kick. Of course, such a rule…

Striker’s foul

If you like, of course, enough has already been said about this problem in the text. Nevertheless, perhaps it is worthwhile to have a little extra section just to deal with this idea. Striker’s foul is actually always. If the referee looks for any alibi to stop the game, it was a striker’s foul. Even…

The backpass rule

This is a very interesting rule, as you might notice only at second glance. First of all, it should be mentioned that this rule – as a second rule alongside the fantastic but unfortunately never applied rule of giving the attacker the benefit of the doubt in offside situations – was enforced and introduced by…

Motivation of the demands

So the game of football is gigantically big. But that doesn’t automatically mean it will always be that big, nor that it couldn’t be bigger. Moreover, it is guaranteed that there will always be attempts to improve it. FIFA officials are also constantly working on this. Everyone will also have ideas for themselves that they…

A simple free kick

1) The idea of the rule Once upon a time, in rather dimly remembered times, a rule was introduced that almost directly followed the official introduction of the game of football as a competitive sport: In the case of foul play or handball – both of which are defined within certain limits as to what…