Commissioner For A Day: Let’s Have More Indirect Free Kicks In The Box
by Dan McQuade from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#4GWHP)
One quirk of soccer is that the rules of the game change when the ball is in the box. Not massively, but in one small and crucial way: Because a foul in the box is punished with a penalty, things that would be fouls anywhere else on the field are occasionally just not called in the box.