foul play

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A statement from the Premier League Match Centre said: "The referee's call of yellow card to Havertz was checked and confirmed by VAR – with the challenge deemed not to be serious foul play."

From BBC • May 18, 2026

Jeremy, Bath: By that logic, virtually every single handball should be deemed no foul play as accidental!

From BBC • May 17, 2026

“But obviously the pattern of foul play continues,” Bouchouev said in an email to MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Corrections Central Investigation Bureau and the county coroner are investigating, but the sheriff’s office said there were no signs of foul play.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2026

They were running, all four of them, Cari shrieking foul play even though she’d pulled the same trick herself a hundred times.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez