Have a quick question from my game a couple of weeks back.
Keeper has the ball in his hands, gets a small nudge from an opposing player. He looks to me as he thinks he has been fouled, I tell him to carry on. He then shows dissent towards me. I stop the game, with the keeper still in his box and the ball still in his hands, sin binning the goal keeper. All good up til here. My question is, what's the correct restart?
As it was a 'verbal offence', it's my understanding that it should be a drop ball where the ball was when the game was stopped to the opposing team. However, this would have been a drop ball in the box that they were attacking, which is prohibited under law, and instead the defending team should receive the ball. This seems a little backwards, as the team that has offended has the ball back, and the only price they have paid is a sin bin (and if this were to happen at a higher level, it would have inly resulted in a mere yellow card).
In the end, I went for an indirect free kick inside the box, and whilst this is wrong in law, I only found this out after the game!
So how should I have restarted the game?
Keeper has the ball in his hands, gets a small nudge from an opposing player. He looks to me as he thinks he has been fouled, I tell him to carry on. He then shows dissent towards me. I stop the game, with the keeper still in his box and the ball still in his hands, sin binning the goal keeper. All good up til here. My question is, what's the correct restart?
As it was a 'verbal offence', it's my understanding that it should be a drop ball where the ball was when the game was stopped to the opposing team. However, this would have been a drop ball in the box that they were attacking, which is prohibited under law, and instead the defending team should receive the ball. This seems a little backwards, as the team that has offended has the ball back, and the only price they have paid is a sin bin (and if this were to happen at a higher level, it would have inly resulted in a mere yellow card).
In the end, I went for an indirect free kick inside the box, and whilst this is wrong in law, I only found this out after the game!
So how should I have restarted the game?