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Listed below are comments made by acoughlan between Tuesday, 10th June 2008 and Tuesday, 1st July 2008.

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Farewell Euro 2008 1:08pm on 01 Jul 2008 Fletch, you've been brilliant. Thanks for all this, see you in SA two years from now!
You Are The Ref special 3:55pm on 10 Jun 2008 A player isn't entitled to leave the field of play without the referee's permission, and doing so merits a yellow card. If they have left with the referee's permission, they must then be waved back into play by the ref.

The exception to this is when their momentum takes them outside of the playing area, in which case they are still deemed to be 'in play' and which -- clearly and sensibly -- doesn't require the referee to give them permission to return to the boundaries.

Panucci was not given permission to leave the pitch, he would not have needed permission to return had the goal not been scored. Had the goal been disallowed for offside, the referee would have had to book Panucci for leaving the field of play without permission -- which would have been an even more bizarre situation, and one which would be unfair to both sides.

A fair goal, no doubt about it.

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