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July 2003 - You are the ref

1. If you see a player go down with what seems to be a minor injury, what action do you take?
   
2. You have noticed a player wearing a ring and you send him off to remove it or have it taped.  When can he return?
   
3. A player with the ball near the touch line dodges an opponent by going off the field of play and then returning to control the ball.  How do you deal with him?
   
4. By half-time on a gloomy winter’s day and on a pitch with no floodlights, you realise it might get too dark to finish the game.  Can you inform the captains that the second half will be curtailed to 35 minutes?
   
5. You blow the whistle for a free kick and a defender rushes forward from the wall and is only some 4 metres from the ball when it is kicked.  What do you do?

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