Rules Seminar

Wikipedia:

A direct free kick is a method of restarting play in a game of association football following a foul. Unlike an indirect free kick, a goal may be scored directly against the opposing side without the ball having first touched another player. 

A direct free kick is awarded to the opposing team when a player commits a penalty foul, for example, pushing or tripping an opponent.[1] However, if the offence was committed by the defending team within their own penalty area, the kick becomes a penalty kick.

Steve Twombley, Paul Willis, and Mike Healy of Seacoast United Maine have complained in their recent letter to Freeporters that  "The anonymous people that claim we are getting 'a Free Kick' are making an intentional misrepresentation." Perhaps they don't understand that it's the Referees that award a Free Kick, and that the "anonymous people" on this Facebook page, 373 of whom have signed either this online petition or a hard copy of it,  are complaining about the award, not their taking advantage of it. Seacoast wants to site their 62,000 square foot industrial building that will serve as an indoor soccer stadium in a Rural Residential District where the use is not allowed.

The "anonymous people", unlike Seacoast in their mailer, have published their e-mail address and telephone number on every flyer they have distributed. In two separate votes by the Freeport Planning Board, Seacoast's request to change the zoning of the site in two different ways was turned down. Now they'd like the refs (the Town Council) to award them a third shot. The residents of Freeport have committed no penalty foul, yet are forced once again to ask the Town Council and Planning board to enforce our zoning ordinances. They do not allow Seacoast's project to be built as Seacoast likes where Seacoast likes it. Who, exactly, is misrepresenting what?