Hi all,
Fairly new ref here, looking for some advice based on an incident in a game today.
Defender on his own penalty spot with his back to goal. The ball is coming in from his left, it’s going to bounce in front of him, he’s getting ready for the bounce with the intention to chest it down and then clear.
In preparation to chest the ball he’s taken a position of slightly crouched knees with both arms fully extended sideways out for balance (think T-shape).
Problem is the ball doesn’t bounce true, it jags out to his right, missing his chest, he instinctively moves his right arm to the ball to control it, it makes contact with lower arm and there is an attacker near by. I blow for a penalty. No real complaints, other than from the offender, and even his was a very polite (genuinely) “but ref I didn’t mean it, it was accidental”
I’m only in my first full season, so even what I think are obvious calls still get me thinking. And his “ref I didn’t mean it” got me thinking:
1. Did I make the right decision?
2 if it was the same scenario but he didn’t move hand to ball, ie he set up for the chest, arms were out to balance his crouch stance, ball jags away and hits his lower arm, but ball to hand not hand to ball, and NO attacker near by. Would that be a penalty?
3, Same scenario as above, but this time with an attacker near by who would have got the ball if it hadn’t hit the defenders arm (ball to arm). Would that be a pen?
Fairly new ref here, looking for some advice based on an incident in a game today.
Defender on his own penalty spot with his back to goal. The ball is coming in from his left, it’s going to bounce in front of him, he’s getting ready for the bounce with the intention to chest it down and then clear.
In preparation to chest the ball he’s taken a position of slightly crouched knees with both arms fully extended sideways out for balance (think T-shape).
Problem is the ball doesn’t bounce true, it jags out to his right, missing his chest, he instinctively moves his right arm to the ball to control it, it makes contact with lower arm and there is an attacker near by. I blow for a penalty. No real complaints, other than from the offender, and even his was a very polite (genuinely) “but ref I didn’t mean it, it was accidental”
I’m only in my first full season, so even what I think are obvious calls still get me thinking. And his “ref I didn’t mean it” got me thinking:
1. Did I make the right decision?
2 if it was the same scenario but he didn’t move hand to ball, ie he set up for the chest, arms were out to balance his crouch stance, ball jags away and hits his lower arm, but ball to hand not hand to ball, and NO attacker near by. Would that be a penalty?
3, Same scenario as above, but this time with an attacker near by who would have got the ball if it hadn’t hit the defenders arm (ball to arm). Would that be a pen?