Uefa will launch ABBA penalty shoot-out trial during the European Under-17 Championship finals. It means that Team A starts, followed by two kicks from Team B, and so on. The ABBA penalty shoot-out trial will be used in both the Women’s tournament in the Czech Republic and the Men’s tournament in Croatia. The order of penalty kicks taken by teams in shoot-outs will be changed. It’s part of the “fair play” initiative started by lawmakers of The IFAB and supported by Uefa. Bobby Madley explains ABBA During the PL Asia Trophy the ABBA penalty shoot-out will also be used. Referee Bobby Madley explains it to you on video. Below that you can…

The first quiz of October was made quite well by all of you. I’ve added a screenshot somewhere during last week where you can see the most difficult question with 15% of you giving the wrong answer (at that moment). The answer is in the Laws of the Game on page 46. “The referee stops, suspends or abandons the match for any infringements of the Laws or because of outside interference.” An example that was named: “if a spectator blows a whistle which interferes with play – play is stopped and restarted with a dropped ball.” The new quiz is online now. It’s an “offside special”. Good luck with it!…

How were the referee quizzes in September? I hope you enjoyed them. I’ll announce the winner of the goodies as soon as possible. I’m just back from my holidays so it probably will be next week. There’s one new thing this month. In September everybody had the chance to fill in the questions during the whole month. Now everyone can fill in the forms to win some goodies until the next quiz is online, a week later also at 12 pm (CET). One week should do and makes it also easier to manage for me. Good luck with the first test of October! Bezig met laden… Terms and conditions Please…

Dutch Referee Blog will give you the opportunity to practice the Laws of the Game in a weekly Quiz. These will be released every Friday at 12pm (CET). It is possible to only do the quizzes for personal practice, but it’s also possible to win some referee goodies. Refsworld UK has made these available for Dutch Referee Blog’s Laws of the Game Quizzes. The monthly prize will (randomly) be alloted to one of the contestants who scored the most points in a particular month. If you want your weekly scores to be summed up, make sure you write down the same email address and user name every week. If you…

Goalkeepers who leave their goal-line too early at a penalty kick should get a yellow card and the kick needs to be retaken. That’s what Pierluigi Collina, Uefa’s head of refereeing said on a press conference. The Italian former referee is referring to the penalty in the game between Croatia and Spain. Sergio Ramos was taking a penalty kick in the game against Croatia and at the moment he touched the ball, Croatian goalie Subasic was already two metres from his goal-line. “Unfortunately, that goalkeeper moved forward, it was not spotted by the referee’s team,” Collina told the 12 remaining referees during a briefing. He also explained it to the journalists at the…