micky2001
Well-Known Member
Well I can say for sure that I have just witnessed one of the strangest penalty shootouts I've seen in a school game. I was just watching, not officiating, but here's what happened.
Cup game ends in a draw so goes to Kicks from the Penalty Mark.
Gets to 4-4 after 5 penalties each.
Red team miss their 6th penalty kick, and the blue team score, so the blues start celebrating, unbeknownst to them that the referee is ordering a retake due to the blue keeper being off his line when making the save.
After about 4-5 minutes of the referee trying to get the blues off their high horses and back down to reality, the kicks resume. The retaken kick by the blues is missed, so we now go to the 7th PK but by now there are 3 blue players in tears because they though they'd won.
Anyway, we get to 10 kicks each and still no clear winner so we go to the 11th. Red player goes up and misses it and then blue keeper goes and scores...They think it's all over.....Not a chance.
Reds claim that blues 11 players had all taken a kick each, but because they only had 10 (red player had to leave after the final whistle of the 90mins for a doctor appointment) that the last kickers penalty shouldn't count and he should not take a PK and it should go to the 1st taker again.
Referee agrees, disallows blue keepers penalty to make equal balance of players, and makes the 1st blue PK taker take the 11th penalty. He misses which caused abuse from every angle of the pitch. The game went to 16 penalties each and in the end the reds actually won despite thinking they'd lost twice!
Out of curiosity, what would you have done if a player left before the penalty shootout like happened here?
Cup game ends in a draw so goes to Kicks from the Penalty Mark.
Gets to 4-4 after 5 penalties each.
Red team miss their 6th penalty kick, and the blue team score, so the blues start celebrating, unbeknownst to them that the referee is ordering a retake due to the blue keeper being off his line when making the save.
After about 4-5 minutes of the referee trying to get the blues off their high horses and back down to reality, the kicks resume. The retaken kick by the blues is missed, so we now go to the 7th PK but by now there are 3 blue players in tears because they though they'd won.
Anyway, we get to 10 kicks each and still no clear winner so we go to the 11th. Red player goes up and misses it and then blue keeper goes and scores...They think it's all over.....Not a chance.
Reds claim that blues 11 players had all taken a kick each, but because they only had 10 (red player had to leave after the final whistle of the 90mins for a doctor appointment) that the last kickers penalty shouldn't count and he should not take a PK and it should go to the 1st taker again.
Referee agrees, disallows blue keepers penalty to make equal balance of players, and makes the 1st blue PK taker take the 11th penalty. He misses which caused abuse from every angle of the pitch. The game went to 16 penalties each and in the end the reds actually won despite thinking they'd lost twice!
Out of curiosity, what would you have done if a player left before the penalty shootout like happened here?
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