What I can't understand - and I've never got an answer to - is why some of the free-kick situations (foul, offending player has got a card) suddenly turn into corners. If it's a free-kick offence, then there should be a free-kick, not a corner.

This is why the Free-kick stat is so bogus. I've had lots of matches with no free-kicks. That's a rarity in real-life...