Here's some ref questions I found that probably aren't as complex as 'you are the ref' but here goes:
1. What should the referee do, and how is play restarted if...
A direct free kick (DFK) is awarded to the red team just outside their penalty area. The red team player #7, who is not the goalkeeper, takes the DFK and miss-kicks the ball, sending it in the direction of his own goal. The red team player #7 realizes that the ball is headed for his own net and runs to the ball in an attempt to stop it before it enters the goal. While inside his penalty area, red team player #7 dives and deflects the ball with his hand over the goal line, preventing it from going into his goal.
2. What should the referee do, and how is play restarted if...
An attacking red team player, who is adjusting his shirt, grabs the bottom of it with both hands as the ball is played to him. He "catches" the ball with the bottom of his shirt (as a basket), without touching the ball with his hands, then he releases the ball from the shirt to his feet and kicks it into the goal?
3. What should the referee do and how is play restarted if...
A blue defender just outside the blue team's penalty area starts holding a red attacker who is dribbling toward the blue team's goal. However, while still being held by the blue defender, the red attacker manages to get into the blue team's penalty area before losing control of the ball to the blue team defender?
1. Red card to the #7 and a penalty kick to the other team
2. Yellow card to the offending player for unsportsmanlike conduct, and a freekick is awarded to the other team.
3. Free kick awarded to the red team just outside the penalty area, as that was where the holding began.
The official answers:
1. The red team player #7
did not deny an obvious goal scoring opportunity as a team cannot score a goal, from a DFK into its own goal. If the ball would have gone into the goal, without anybody touching it, a corner kick would have been awarded to the opposing team. However, the red team player #7 who originally takes the DFK, deliberately handles the ball inside his penalty area before it touched another player. In this case, the player who handled the ball is not the goalkeeper; therefore, the referee should stop the game and restart it with a penalty kick for the opposing team. If the red team's goalkeeper would have taken the original DFK and then handled the ball inside his own penalty area, before it was touched by another player, an indirect free kick would have been awarded to the opposing team to be taken from the place where the infringement occurred. In addition, depending on the age of the players, the referee may decide that the red team player #7 is guilty of unsporting behavior and therefore caution the player.
2. The bottom of
his shirt became an extension of the hands as the red team player was holding it with his hands and made a "basket." Therefore, the red team player is guilty of handling the ball. The referee should stop the game and restart it with a direct free kick for the blue team from the place where the offense occurred. In this case, if the infraction (handling the ball deliberately) occurred inside the blue team's penalty area, then all opponents must be at least 10 yards from the ball and remain outside the penalty area until the ball is in play, which requires for it to be kicked directly out of the penalty area.
In addition, depending on the age of the players and if, in the opinion of the referee, the red team player intentionally used the "basket," that is deliberately handled the ball, to prevent an opponent from gaining possession, then before restarting the game the referee should caution the red team player for unsporting behavior.
3. Stop play and restart with a
penalty kick for the red team.