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We are allowed to be pedantic on this forum but on the field, I think not. Any further behind his head and he'd have to be a contortionist. Nothing in law says the ball can't spin.

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I'm not checking but I'm fairly sure previous guidance has said you can't propel the ball with one hand using the other as a guide, and that you can't just drop the ball from over your head.
 
They play at step 3 so I'm going to make the bold assumption that this is their reserves or development team. Find it extremely hard to believe that a referee can get to, and stay at, level 3 with behaviours like that.
 
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They play at step 3 so I'm going to make the bold assumption that this is their reserves or development team. Find it extremely hard to believe that a referee can get to, and stay at, level 3 with behaviours like that.
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There are plenty of bald refs but fairly sure it's this game.

 
bloovee said:
I'm not checking but I'm fairly sure previous guidance has said you can't propel the ball with one hand using the other as a guide, and that you can't just drop the ball from over your head.
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I checked. I'm not surprised if referees of a certain age have never seen it...

"Advice to referees...

See that the player taking the throw-in really uses both hands; some players are apt to throw the ball with one hand only, using the other simply as a guide"
(in the 1963 Referees' Chart!)

I can't trace an official source to say you can't just drop the ball - but dropping is not throwing, is it? Oddly, toward the end of City v Newcastle, with City killing time near the Newcastle corner, the referee penalised City for a foul throw that was perhaps lobbed rather than thrown to a nearby player but the ensuing Newcastle throw looked much the same and wasn't penalised.

I did find this strange (and wrong?) advice in a Bundesliga webpage: "The direction of the soccer throw must be upwards, throwing the ball downwards toward a teammate is not allowed". https://www.bundesliga.com/en/faq/what-are-the-rules-and-regulations-of-soccer/throw-in-31111
 
bloovee said:
I checked. I'm not surprised if referees of a certain age have never seen it...

"Advice to referees...

See that the player taking the throw-in really uses both hands; some players are apt to throw the ball with one hand only, using the other simply as a guide"
(in the 1963 Referees' Chart!)

I can't trace an official source to say you can't just drop the ball - but dropping is not throwing, is it? Oddly, toward the end of City v Newcastle, with City killing time near the Newcastle corner, the referee penalised City for a foul throw that was perhaps lobbed rather than thrown to a nearby player but the ensuing Newcastle throw looked much the same and wasn't penalised.

I did find this strange (and wrong?) advice in a Bundesliga webpage: "The direction of the soccer throw must be upwards, throwing the ball downwards toward a teammate is not allowed". https://www.bundesliga.com/en/faq/what-are-the-rules-and-regulations-of-soccer/throw-in-31111
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What the hec has this got to do with the City v Geodies game ffs!!???
I dunno how you sleep at night, possessed with conspiracy and wot not, even with 3 point in the bag. You ought to have a chuckle at urself FGS

Anyway, I might rethink my promotion aspirations, cos this ref looks more of a dinosaur than me. I'm allowed to be ageist on account of my age!

Couple of mins in, AR rightly gives offside, but ball immediately ends up in keeper's hands. Ref insists on IDFK. Very poor.... wave flag down, play on Shirley

KMI in this pic, where's the ref? Think this is a PK FWIW
 

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Once upon a time (a long time ago) the interpretation was that sideways spin indicated the ball was really being theown with one had
D and the other was just there. But that has been outdated for a very long time.
 
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