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Being careless makes it an offence, being reckless makes it a cautionable offence and using excessive force makes it a sending-off offence. Such classification of contact is a matter of judgement for the referee. The handball offence is also penalised with a direct free kick.
Offences include obstruction, unfair play, repeated infringements, dangerous play and misconduct which is prejudicial to the game. Receiving a yellow card is known colloquially as being sent to the "sin bin". If that player later commits another yellow-card offence, the player will be shown a red card (see below) and be sent-off.
In association football, a player is dismissed from the field of play by the referee showing them a red card if they commit a dismissible offence or the player has committed a cautionable (yellow card) offence having already received a yellow card in the same game. The act of ejection is referred to in the sport as "sending off".
1889 – A player may be sent off for repeated cautionable behaviour. 1890 – A goal may not be scored directly from a goal kick. When first introduced in 1891, the penalty was awarded for offences within 12 yards of the goal-line. 1891 – The penalty kick is introduced, for handball or foul play within 12 yards of the goal line. The umpires ...
Saliba’s red card against Bournemouth is the third Arsenal have been shown in the Premier League this season
Prior to 1925, a call of offside against a defensive unit brought with it an automatic first down in addition to a five-yard advancement of the ball for the offense. [2] However, a December 1924 meeting of the Football Coaches' Association of America spurred a change of rules for the 1925 season eliminating the provision for an automatic first ...
On Sunday, the NFL said that it got the calls right. NFL rules analyst Walt Anderson, a former referee who is now a communications liaison for the league, went on "NFL GameDay" on Sunday morning ...
Plácido Galindo was the first player to be sent off in a World Cup match, playing for Peru against Romania in a 1930 match officiated by Alberto Warnken.Although physical red cards were introduced from 1970, they were not put in practice until the 1974 World Cup, when referee Doğan Babacan sent off Chile's Carlos Caszely during a match against West Germany.