Posted on 22nd March 2019
This is a story from the FSF archive – the FSF and SD merged to become the FSA in 2019.
Cagliari’s Luca Cigarini scored (what would have been) one of the goals of the season against Fiorentina in Serie A recently – finding the net from his own half. However, the show-off failed to realise that free-kicks from offsides are indirect.
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By the looks of this clip from Argeș vs Mioveni this week, supporters in Romania’s Liga I are enjoying the best of what the game has to offer, including some eagle eyed refereeing. The man in the middle correctly ruled out what would have been one of the most tragi-comic own goals we’ve ever seen.
The FA has said it will be introducing new rules to protect the heritage of football clubs in the men’s and women’s game.
It’s not often that the international break provides one of the biggest moments in a Premier League season, but last Friday’s news that Everton were going to be docked 10 points for a breach of the profitability and sustainability rules looks set to be the story of the season.
On Wednesday 8th December the Government announced its intention to move to “Plan B” in response to the Omicron variant. This means fans will need a “vaccine passport” or negative test in order to access large sporting events.
