incident in my game yesterday. Green defending a corner with white the attacking team. Corner comes in after a few missed kicks etc the ball squirts out back towards the touchline and a defender takes control of the ball close to his own goal line but still in the box. He controls the ball with his feet and doesn't really move forward - for some strange reason nobody from white team pressures him as they are all running back from the failed corner - and then the keeper shouts "I'll deal with it" and comes over and picks up the ball.
Que calls for 'back pass ref'. I immediately start shouting no "needs to be a deliberate pass". That actually shut everyone up pretty quick as the defender who originally had the ball looked to everyone to be pretty surprised to see his keeper grabbing the ball.
I'm 99% sure I got this right but I had never really considered a keeper snatching the ball off his own defender using his hands and weather that could be considered a deliberate pass if the defender allows it. Thoughts?
Que calls for 'back pass ref'. I immediately start shouting no "needs to be a deliberate pass". That actually shut everyone up pretty quick as the defender who originally had the ball looked to everyone to be pretty surprised to see his keeper grabbing the ball.
I'm 99% sure I got this right but I had never really considered a keeper snatching the ball off his own defender using his hands and weather that could be considered a deliberate pass if the defender allows it. Thoughts?