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Sidwell header to keeper

micky2001

micky2001

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In the man city game today, Sidwell took a touch which wasn't very good then went on his knees and attempted to header it back to the keeper. It the keeper picked it up, would you be doing anything with regard to circumventing the LotG?
 
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Just out of interest, if Negredo hadn't got on the end of it and the referee had decided he was circumventing, what would be given?

I'd say an IFK, but it was literally three yards out.
 
It would be an IDFK, if it is inside the goal area then it is taken on the goal area line, parallel to the goal line from the point where the offence took place.
 
I'd say no free kick. The first touch is not a deliberate attempt to set up a header back to the keeper. As the OP said, it's a bad touch, not an attempt to circumvent the Law.
 
haywain said:
So what's this one, then


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If that's not circumventing, I'm not sure what is! Out of interest, if a defender takes a touch is about to clear it and the keeper shouts at him to leave it so he can pick it up, is that regarded as a back pass? It was not passed back deliberately to the keeper.
 
Southend-ref said:
Out of interest, if a defender takes a touch is about to clear it and the keeper shouts at him to leave it so he can pick it up, is that regarded as a back pass? It was not passed back deliberately to the keeper.
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Law 12:
An indirect free kick is awarded to the opposing team if a goalkeeper, inside his own penalty area, touches the ball with his hands after it has been deliberately kicked to him by a team-mate
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I guess, by the strict letter of the Law, the answer would have to be "no". The interpretation doesn't shed any light either, just repeats the Law.

My own interpretation, however, would be that the defender is deliberately leaving the ball for the keeper, having deliberately kicked it beforehand, and between the two of them they have constructed a deliberate pass back. The main real difference is that the keeper has come to the ball rather than the ball going to the keeper.

Also, to allow such an instance would create a precedent: defenders could easily claim innocence and keep doing it over and over.
Southend-ref said:
Anyone got a video of the Sidwell one?
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Here you go. It's right at the end.

 
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