World Cup 2010

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

His question was "could" it have been so interpreted, and the way things have been going for us, the answer has to be yes. Or the goal could have been disallowed because the referee thought he saw the dead rising from their graves.

I will preface this post by saying that I know nothing about soccer, other than a bunch of guys kick a ball around (and other than the goalie, they aren't allowed to use their hands) and try to kick it into their opponents goal.

I was having lunch with a co-worker and he was explaining that soccer really doesn't have any rules: they are all laws (although I am not sure why that distinction is important) and the referee has a lot of leeway as whether something is a foul or not. Also, the ref doesn't need to even explain what an exact penalty was - he can just say there was a penalty.

Is this effectively correct? Sounds mighty bizarre to me.