Professional foul Football League, recommended in 1982 that any offence that denies the attacking player an obvious scoring opportunity should be deemed "serious foul play" by English referees and would therefore receive a red card, in order to deter offenders. The subcommittee produced several suggestions, including making the professional foul a mandatory red card offence, which they submitted to the IFAB for consideration. All the suggestions were defeated. The rule was finally fixed into the Laws of the Game by IFAB in 1990 and referees were instructed by FIFA for the 1990 World Cup to send off players for a professional foul.
Obtaining pecuniary advantage by deception Obtaining pecuniary advantage by deception Obtaining pecuniary advantage by deception was formerly a statutory offence in England and Wales and Northern Ireland. However, the offence still subsists in certain other common law jurisdictionswhich have copied the English criminal model. The offence was created by section 16 of the Theft Act 1968. At the time of its repeal it read: This offence replaced the offence of obtaining credit by fraud, contrary to section 13(1) of the Debtors Act 1869. The elements of the actus reus are similar to the offence of obtaining property by deception: The expression "pecuniary advantage" was defined