Hillman avenger wrote:From the FA website
he law for red cards, according to the FA website, is as follows:
Sending-Off Offences
A player is sent off and shown the red card if he commits any of the following offences:
S1 is guilty of serious foul play
S2 is guilty of violent conduct
S3 spits at an opponent or any other person
S4 denies the opposing team a goal or an obvious goal-scoring opportunity by deliberately handling the ball (this does not apply to a goalkeeper within his own penalty area)
S5 denies an obvious goal-scoring opportunity to an opponent moving towards the player’s goal by an offence punishable by a free kick or a penalty kick
S6 uses offensive, insulting or abusive language
S7 receives a second blue/yellow card in the same match
If play is stopped for a player to be sent from the playing area without having committed any additional infringement of the Laws, the game is restarted by an indirect free kick, awarded to the opposing team, to be taken at the place where the infringement occurred. However, if the offence is committed in the penalty area, the indirect free kick is taken from the penalty area line at the place nearest to where the infringement occurred.
In addition, when Dunk took the kick, Brighton players were in front of the Liverpool wall, As far as I know, that should not be allowed either
That paragraph beginning “If play is stopped...” is rather ambiguously worded.
It must surely be separate from the examples above, because S5 mentions penalties, which are direct free kicks.
So presumably the paragraph refers to other offences not mentioned in the examples.
Otherwise it would be ridiculous, because it would mean that when a player is red-carded it is almost impossible to get a direct free kick.