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Ah, that. Then I understand the previous better, but disagree with

There's nothing lost from making it automatic every time the referee stops play by blowing the whistle.

Except every stop would be lengthened by several seconds, especially free kicks far from the goal.

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by DoDo on Thu Nov 19th, 2009 at 10:24:32 AM EST
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You're referring to free kicks where possession has passed to the defending team on their own half of the pitch.

As this interrupts an ongoing attack in the defending team's pitch, the attacking team would want a review and should be granted one. How many seconds are we talking about here?

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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Nov 19th, 2009 at 10:38:13 AM EST
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