QUESTIONS
1. How is play re-started after the ball has gone out of play over the white lines
marking the length of the playing area, when it was last touched by a member
of the attacking team?
2. How is play re-started after the ball has gone out of play over the white lines
marking the length of the playing area, when it was last touched by a member
of the defending team?
3. What is the term for a serious offence committed in a careless or reckless
manner or with the use of excessive force?
4. What will the referee award to the player on the receiving end of a foul?
5. What will the referee award to the attacking team if the foul is committed by a
member of the defending team in his own penalty area?
6. How far must the opposing players be away from the ball when a free-kick is to
be taken?
7. If a player continues to commit serious offences after having received a verbal
warning, the referee will officially caution him with the aid of ….What?
8. If a player continues to offend after receiving a yellow card, or if he commits a
really serious offence, the referee will send him from the field by showing him
a …… What?
9. Only two FA clubs have ever won the FA Challenge Cup three years in
succession. One was Wanderers (1876-77-78), which was the other, who won it
1884-85-86?
10. Who was the first foreign player to captain an FA Cup winning team?
11. What was the last ‘second division’ club to win the FA Cup?
12. What year was the FA Cup final played at Wembley for the first time?
13. Which was the first club to do ‘the double’, winning the FA Cup final and
leading the first division?
14. In 1903, Bury set the record for the winning margin in an FA Cup final, against
Derby.What was the score?15. In what year did Arsenal beat Sheffield
Wednesday in both the FA Cup final and the League Cup final?
15. In what year did Arsenal beat Sheffield Wednesday in both the FA Cup final and
the League Cup final?
ANSWERS
1.A ‘goal-kick’. 2.A ‘corner-kick’. 3.A ‘foul’. 4.A ‘direct free-kick’. 5.A ‘penalty’. 6. 10
yards (9.15m). 7.A yellow card. 8.A red card. 9. Blackburn Rovers. 10. Eric Cantona
(Man U 1996). 11.West Ham United (1980). 12. 1923. 13. Preston North End 1889.
14. 6-0. 15. 1993.
