A defender (Team A) competes with an attacker (Team B) for the ball near the touchline. The referee decides to allow play to continue. The head coach of Team B then angrily yells at the referee to stop play and award a free kick to Team B, although no offensive, insulting or abusive language is used. What is the correct decision?

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Accepted Answer

Unless Team A would be disadvantaged by play being stopped, the referee stops play, cautions the coach (yellow card for dissent), and restarts play with an indirect free kick on the touchline nearest to where the verbal offence occurred.