The winning goal.

festa5 said:
In his logic the fact his keeper picked it up proved it wasn't a backpass! Because obviously all footballers are completely infallible and never make errors of judgement.

Embarrassing comments really. Nice to have a manager for once who doesn't throw his toys out the pram and act like a child when things don't go his way.
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Totally embarrassing, of course it was a backpass, not even in doubt.
 
junos_boots said:
What I couldnt understand was why he (ref) accepted players having one foot on the line as being far enough away from the ball, even though the had their other foot ahead of the line - As it was this probably helped the Boro as this was where the gap came from that the ball went through.

Lee Trundle was like me, also wondering why the tiny tap was allowed - but fair play to the Swansea commentry team - they looked up the rule and admitted they didn't know the rule had changed. Do you think the Boro players knew anything about the rule / rule change?
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They probably saw that disallowed goal after a sneaky corner, which was well debated on twitter last week.
Good timing 🙂
 
junos_boots said:
Lee Trundle was like me, also wondering why the tiny tap was allowed - but fair play to the Swansea commentry team - they looked up the rule and admitted they didn't know the rule had changed. Do you think the Boro players knew anything about the rule / rule change?
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I doubt it. The law in question (where the ball had to travel the distance of its circumference to be in play) was changed nearly 30 years ago. Pretty much all of them weren't even born when that change came in.
 
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Rofesleg said:
They probably saw that disallowed goal after a sneaky corner, which was well debated on twitter last week.
Good timing 🙂
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Why wasn’t the keeper booked for throwing the ball away, given that the ref booked Jones earlier for a similar thing.
 
Liamo said:
I doubt it. The law in question (where the ball had to travel the distance of its circumference to be in play) was changed nearly 30 years ago. Pretty much all of them weren't even born when that change came in.
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As long ago as that, shows how well I've kept up with rules after qualifying as a ref when at uni I early 90s. Only ever reffed one game but the distances you had to travel made it impossible to keep going as a careless student
 
junos_boots said:
Lee Trundle was like me, also wondering why the tiny tap was allowed - but fair play to the Swansea commentry team - they looked up the rule and admitted they didn't know the rule had changed. Do you think the Boro players knew anything about the rule / rule change?
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Liamo said:
I doubt it. The law in question (where the ball had to travel the distance of its circumference to be in play) was changed nearly 30 years ago. Pretty much all of them weren't even born when that change came in.
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Someone mentioned on the Rebecca Welch thread that she'd come through on the fast track which, among other things, was in place to get ex-pros to become referees. I'm not aware that any have; they'd much rather sit in a studio showing their ignorance of the laws than actually learning them and do a useful job.
 
Capybara said:
Someone mentioned on the Rebecca Welch thread that she'd come through on the fast track which, among other things, was in place to get ex-pros to become referees. I'm not aware that any have; they'd much rather sit in a studio showing their ignorance of the laws than actually learning them and do a useful job.
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Are you implying that Andy Townsend stating "I've seen them given" isn't a perfectly adequate substitute for actually knowing what you're talking about?
 
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I mean just all 11 line up on goal line and stand like a brick wall why charge out it makes it easier for opponent
 
The Swansea manager's main beef with the decision seemed to be that you don't see them very often. Well yes, that's because most goalies aren't stupid enough to pick them up.
 
wilkos_perm said:
I thought the same, would've expected some sort of combination with either Howson, Barlaser or Latte Lath.
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Howson consulted with Silvera and left it to him. Silvera had earlier spotted the ball nearer to the goal where the keeper had picked the ball up - the referee replaced it to the spot where it was taken from. You can see why that rule applied as otherwise the Swans wall would have been almost on top of the free kick.
I remember in the good old days of indirect free kicks, occasionally a player would strike it without pass in the hope it would deflect off a defender or the keeper would dive for it. Am sure Stephen Pears once did this. He tried to save an indirect free kick and palmed it into the net - he said it was just keeper-instinct to go for the ball.
 
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