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Nonsense about restarting after a goal

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JH

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There's been some absolute nonsense doing the rounds on twitter and now in news articles:

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Law 8 states that:

"For every kick-off:
all players, except the player taking the kick-off, must be in their own half
of the field of play"


Of course everybody that reads it now blindly accepts this made up law...
 
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The law also states that the referee must give a signal. No referee worth the pea in their whistle should give a signal for kick off while all opponents are piled up celebrating a goal.
 
Type: "FIFA states if all outfield players" (yes, they all copy and pasted the same phrase) and you'll see some of the articles and twitter posts misleading people (also a couple debunking it). There's a tweet where I believe it may have originated with over 20,000 retweets/favourites, with a few hundred more defending a 'law' they just heard of for the first time, to anyone that says it is rubbish.
 
Two of those topics cropped up in the soccer subreddit on reddit. But with Portugal as the team in question.

As is the trend, before someone reports it and it gets removed, 90% of the comments take it as fact. :wall:
 
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Where this normally causes a problem is where the whole team are celebrating without realising the goal has been disallowed. But obviously that isn't a kick off and rather a free kick, so nothing illegal about it.
 
The law also states that the referee must give a signal. No referee worth the pea in their whistle should give a signal for kick off while all opponents are piled up celebrating a goal.
IT's happened, we've discussed it on here, and a number of referees on here were in favour of it :)
 
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Id never heard of it and thought surely that cant be true as you would think a) it would have cropped up previously or b) if a new rule surely you would have heard more people talking about it.

I became a follower and believed it to be true.
 
What was questioned and also doing the rounds was the fact that one player stays in the opponents half to not allow the kick off to happen until the team gets set up again.. It got lost in translation along the way.
 
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