jnwright71
New Member
Hi All,
A little advice please.
i ref’ed a fairly bad tempered U15 game today. In the second half, a player from the home team touched the ball within his goal area. There was no opposition player close by.
The ball travelled about 2 metres from the player and the goal keeper picked the ball up. i called for an indirect free kick on the edge of the goal area nearest the offence.
The home players, coaches and CAR go nuts stating it wasn’t deliberate. However, the ball wasn’t miskicked, nor did the player try and move to the ball to clear it. In fact, I think he moved away.
My question relates to the ‘deliberate‘ pass element of LOTG. I decided that the element of control exerted over the ball was deliberate, but accept that it could have been very unfortunately knocked down to the keeper by mistake. However, in the circumstances, the distance between the player and GK, lack of follow up action from the player and there being no evidence of a miskick aided my decision.
So, thoughts please. A good call or an error.
A little advice please.
i ref’ed a fairly bad tempered U15 game today. In the second half, a player from the home team touched the ball within his goal area. There was no opposition player close by.
The ball travelled about 2 metres from the player and the goal keeper picked the ball up. i called for an indirect free kick on the edge of the goal area nearest the offence.
The home players, coaches and CAR go nuts stating it wasn’t deliberate. However, the ball wasn’t miskicked, nor did the player try and move to the ball to clear it. In fact, I think he moved away.
My question relates to the ‘deliberate‘ pass element of LOTG. I decided that the element of control exerted over the ball was deliberate, but accept that it could have been very unfortunately knocked down to the keeper by mistake. However, in the circumstances, the distance between the player and GK, lack of follow up action from the player and there being no evidence of a miskick aided my decision.
So, thoughts please. A good call or an error.