Tackle (football move) boots. Referees are encouraged to at the very least caution (yellow card) players who commit such challenges. Additionally, an illegal tackle which is also a professional foul is considered misconduct. The most spectacular form of tackle in association football is the slide tackle, wherein a tackler slides, leg extended, along the ground, aiming to hit the ball away. This form of tackle carries a high risk of committing a foul. "Diving" is association football involves tackled players exaggerating the physicality of tackles, so as to gain favourable decisions from the referee. In Australian rules football, the move commonly described as
Professional foul constitutes an obvious goalscoring opportunity is left to the discretion of the referee; however, several factors are given to help referees decide. These are: the distance between the offence and the goal, the likelihood of keeping or gaining control of the ball, the direction of the play, the location and number of defenders. The offence is informally known as DOGSO, an acronym for "Denial of an Obvious Goal-Scoring Opportunity". Even if a foul unambiguously prevents a goal, the Laws of football have no provision for awarding the score (there is no equivalent of the penalty try seen in rugby). Thus,