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Q1. Can a corner flag be removed to enable the player to take the kick more quickly?

Q2. How is a goal scored?

Q3. What is the purpose of the goal area?

Q4. What is the minimum number of players permissible in each team to enable a competition to be played?

Q5. May a player who has been sent off, be permitted to sit on the substitutes bench?

Q6. A team decides it wishes to play without a goalkeeper. Should the referee:

allow it
Allow it only if a team has ten or less players
Insist that one player must act as a goalkeeper.

Q7. A defender attempts to clear the ball away from the goal area. However the ball strikes the referee and is deflected into the goal. The referee should:

award a goal
Stop play and re-start with a drop-ball
Stop play and re-star with a free-kick against the defender

Q8. If the ball is kicked straight into an opponents goal from the kick off what decision should the referee give?

re-take the kick
Allow the goal
Re-start play with a goal kick

Q9. Is it compulsory for all players to wear shin pads?

YES/NO

Q10. Can a goal keeper take a throw-in or penalty?

YES/NO