League

Casual revision. One matchday a day until your last exam. Miss it and it's a 0–3 walkover, but your first missed day each week is postponed for free.

Cup

Exam lock-in, a knockout run for one exam: Round of 16, quarter-final, semi-final, Final. Stricter referee, no VAR, draws go to penalties, and a defeat sends you back to the Round of 16. Win the Final for that exam's trophy.

Exam progress

Real matches add their focus minutes to an exam: cup ties to their exam, the rest to your next one.

Warm-up

Tick all four to unlock kick-off, then tell the referee the keepers are ready.

Opponents

Each club bends one rule. Check the next fixture before kick-off.

Match

45 min, 15 min half-time, 45 min.

Half-time

Leave the tab, it's fine. When the break ends, the referee asks if you're ready; the second half starts when you say yes.

Goals

Stay on this tab. The longer your focus run, the likelier a goal. After 20 minutes without one, it's yours.

Away

Leaving this tab or switching to another app.

Face down

On a phone, pick Phone face down. Put it face down next to your book to kick off. Picking it up counts as away; the screen switching off while it's face down doesn't.

After a card

15 seconds' grace before the referee can catch you again.

Quick look

Under 8 s away (3 s with a face-down phone): play on.

Longer

Yellow card when you're back. Pick up a face-down phone and you're booked on the spot. About 1 in 3 yellows is also a penalty.

Penalty

They score 3 in 4. Otherwise it's saved or missed.

Two yellows

Red card. Down to ten, so goals take 5 minutes longer, and no VAR for the rest of the half. A penalty 6 times in 10.

Gone too long

From 25 s away (15 s on a phone) they attack every few seconds. Each attack might go in, and the longer you're gone, the likelier it gets. Some end in a foul and a card while you're away. Either way, you're booked once per absence.

VAR

Cancel their last goal if you were on study material. Once per half.

Added time

Time away is added to the half, up to 10 minutes.

Five reds

Match abandoned: you lose 0–3, or by the actual score if you were already losing by more.

Demo speed: 1 match minute per second, and the away timings are about 4 times quicker. Demo matches don't count in the league.