German player booked for walking the ball into the net

Can only be for unsporting behaviour or showing a lack of respect for the game.

Would it have been a booking if the player was deliberately running the clock down?

If yes, why are players that do similar elsewhere (e.g. taking the ball into a corner) not booked?

If no, then why are there different rules for the same thing in different circumstances?
 
asredastheycome said:
Absolute b0ll0cks mate. You must have done that when you were a kid or had it done to your team. Or someone go through like that then kneel down and head it over the line. Its football (Jim but not as we know it);).
Where in the rules does it say you can't do that. Symptomatic of the nanny state/world we live in.
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There's nothing in the laws that says it's an offence to do it, that's why the goal still stands.

However the laws also say that a player can be cautioned for unsporting behaviour if he "shows a lack of respect for the game," which I'm 100% sure is what the referee will have put down in his match report as it's the only caution category that could apply here.
 
Should it then be a booking for a nutmeg or a player running the clock down by taking the ball into the corner?

Unsporting behaviour and the player seems like a tool, but not a booking for me.
 
I wasn't saying the player should (or should not) have been cautioned, just pointing out that the law has a clause that is applicable here - so if the referee judges this to be unsporting behaviour he has the right to caution the player.

There's a saying in refereeing circles:

"Your match, your decision, your reputation."
 
He's made himself look like a knob, it's not even an entertainingly cocky goal, but it's wrong that he was booked for it.
 
I don't agree that he looks like a nob or that it's unsporting. He's running at the start. Only slows down when he's checked back to see if any of the Werder players can be bothered to make a token show of effort to get back. Book the defenders for disrespecting the game instead.
 
SuperStu said:
I don't agree that he looks like a nob or that it's unsporting. He's running at the start. Only slows down when he's checked back to see if any of the Werder players can be bothered to make a token show of effort to get back. Book the defenders for disrespecting the game instead.
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Exactly

How many times do we see keepers have the ball at their feet, just waiting for the opposing striker to run at them before picking the ball up.

Do the keepers get booked?
 
Booking him is utter nonsense - the goal was in added time (90+1) so Silas was running the clock down in exactly the same way a keeper would dribble the ball then fall onto it as soon as an opposition player got close in the dying minutes of a match or a player taking it into the corner to eat up the final minutes. Neither of those things are particularly in the spirit of the game but are commonplace, so a booking for this is farcical and actually quite hypocritical as no other players were booked for anything similar
 
There is an imaginary line 5m from the goal line. Within that area from corner flag to corner flag a defender can body check an attacker with impunity until the ball goes out for a goal kick. He then usually gets a round of applause of the crowd.
 
Isn't it part of Len Shackleton being a 'character' that he got down on his hands and knees and headed it over the line?
 
I’ve watched the video now.

Shocking behaviour by the attacking player, no example to watching kids is it?

It really is time football cleaned up it’s act, this low life behaviour belongs in the past.

Well done the ref.
 
HolgateCorner said:
I’ve watched the video now.

Shocking behaviour by the attacking player, no example to watching kids is it?

It really is time football cleaned up it’s act, this low life behaviour belongs in the past.

Well done the ref.
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Give over.
 
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