Pete
New Member
Hi all
Just something I've been thinking about recently ...
We very often see an attacker join onto the end of a defensive wall at a ceremonial free kick, but what if this is taken a little further ...
If at the award of a free kick, a quick thinking member of the attacking team correctly anticipates where the wall will want to stand and positions himself there first; do the defending team have the right to move him or have him moved?
Adversely if the attacker takes up this position and the referee then paces the 10 yards to where the attacker is standing, is the attacker within his rights to refuse to move as he has taken up a perfectly legitimate position?
Likewise if the attacking team hear the goalkeeper order a 3/4/5 etc man wall, see the first 2 players get together and flank them either side so the wall can't be grown without having am attacker actually in amongst them?
Cheers
Pete
Just something I've been thinking about recently ...
We very often see an attacker join onto the end of a defensive wall at a ceremonial free kick, but what if this is taken a little further ...
If at the award of a free kick, a quick thinking member of the attacking team correctly anticipates where the wall will want to stand and positions himself there first; do the defending team have the right to move him or have him moved?
Adversely if the attacker takes up this position and the referee then paces the 10 yards to where the attacker is standing, is the attacker within his rights to refuse to move as he has taken up a perfectly legitimate position?
Likewise if the attacking team hear the goalkeeper order a 3/4/5 etc man wall, see the first 2 players get together and flank them either side so the wall can't be grown without having am attacker actually in amongst them?
Cheers
Pete