PLease help

[ref47]

it is not clear what area on the pitch you are referring to in your statement. the pitch has two "boxes" or rectangular areas. one is the goal area. it is the smaller directly in front of the goal. it extends out 6 yds from the goal line. the other is the penalty area. it is larger and extends out to 18 yards from the goal line. i believe you are referring to the penalty area.

a foul committed on the penalty area line would be considered inside the pa. also, a foul inside the pa is obviously inside the pa. anything else is outside the pa.

if the play is as you described, a deliberate foul, often called a "professional" foul, should earn the person committing it a card. the color depends on a number of other factors. if the keeper was the only other opponent near the person fouled, who could have a chance to stop the attacker, that could be denial of an obvious goal scoring opportunity. the attacker must also be heading directly towards the goal; be "close" to the goal; and with the ball close enough to play. if these 4 conditions are met - red card for denying an obvious goal scoring opportunity by a foul. if any of the 4 were not met - yellow card for unsporting behavior.

if the foul happened on the line or inside the pa, the restart is a penalty kick. the ref and assistent are the judges of where the foul happened. apparently, the ref ruled it was outside the pa and not on the line. his judgement. however, the restart for a holding foul is a direct free kick, not ifk.

offside. if offside should have been called, then the ref needed to stop play once he saw the ar's flag. the fact that a defender delibertly handled the ball after the offside offense is not material. the offside happened first and should have been penalized. if the offside did not happen, then the handling should have stopped play. in no case should play have continued without one of these two calls. (again, given your report of what happened.)