You are the ref

[Atticus Finch]

A player takes a penalty, hits the crossbar and then puts in the rebound. No other player touches the ball. What is the decision and why?

 

Happened to me today, I'll tell you what the ref did after a few people have answered.

[dorgie]

A player takes a penalty, hits the crossbar and then puts in the rebound. No other player touches the ball. What is the decision and why?

 

Happened to me today, I'll tell you what the ref did after a few people have answered.

 

Goal disallowed and free kick to goalkeeper's team ?

[smicer07]

Goal disallowed because the player has touched the ball twice (ball didn't touch an opposition player). Free kick to the defending team.

[Gerry]

Yup. Basically anyone other than you could have put in the rebound. As it was you, the two-touch rule kicks in and the goal is disallowed and an indirect free kick awarded to the opposition.

[Davvo]

Coincidentally, that also happened to Norwich yesterday. Wes Hoolahan hit the bar, and put the rebound in without it having been touched by an opposition player, disallowed and freekick to the keeper. It's not that strange a rule though.

[floyd]

Goal dissalowed, but Law51 Section 4, clearly states, that the goal stands if scored by a Man Utd player.

[Earl Hafler]

Goal dissalowed, but Law51 Section 4, clearly states, that the goal stands if scored by a Man Utd player.

 

Speaking of Law and Man Utd

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO-GYmp_1Gk

[Atticus Finch]

Yep you all got it. Goal was disallowed and an indirect awarded.

 

No-one other than the ref knew that rule - none of the players, neither manager!

 

Presumably the purpose is so that the same player doesn't double kick the ball (like the West Ham pen) and gain advantage. If that is the purpose I find it strange that the woodwork isn't deemed in this instance to cancel out the two touches by the same player principle. I gained absolutely no advantage from it.

 

Moral of this story - I should of just put it in instead of playing a one-two with the bar.

[Billy Dane]

Speaking of Law and Man Utd

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO-GYmp_1Gk

 

 

Happy Days. *sigh*

[Rory Fitzgerald]

Yep you all got it. Goal was disallowed and an indirect awarded.

 

No-one other than the ref knew that rule - none of the players, neither manager!

 

Presumably the purpose is so that the same player doesn't double kick the ball (like the West Ham pen) and gain advantage. If that is the purpose I find it strange that the woodwork isn't deemed in this instance to cancel out the two touches by the same player principle. I gained absolutely no advantage from it.

 

Moral of this story - I should of just put it in instead of playing a one-two with the bar.

 

Yeah, rule is obviously there to stop you touching the ball a few yards forward before smacking it.

 

I agree, the frame of the goal should not stop the same player scoring the re bound.

 

In fairness, well done to amateur referee to know/remember that rule.

[Atticus Finch]

 

In fairness, well done to amateur referee to know/remember that rule.

 

That wasn't how I was feeling at the time...

[Hassony]

 

No-one other than the ref knew that rule - none of the players, neither manager!

 

 

 

really surprised at that, I thought everyone knew that rule

[Davvo]

really surprised at that, I thought everyone knew that rule

 

I find it incredible to think noone other than the ref was aware of it. It's on a par with can't be offside from a throw or something like that, it's just a standard rule.

 

what are they teaching kids these days

[Gilps]

That wasn't how I was feeling at the time...

 

Not his fault you take a s*** penalty.

[Red Kent]

No-one other than the ref knew that rule - none of the players, neither manager!

 

 

That's the problem, footballers play the game, managers manage the footballers, pundits watch and talk about the game, fans watch the game, Yet a very very small percentage know the rules yet the ones that haven't a scooby think they are right.

[stressederic]

Didn't something like this happen to Sheringham when he was playing for United against Spurs?

[ManxRed]

When people mention footballers not knowing the rules I keep thinking of that (nigerian?) defender who kept running from the wall to block a free kick. Didn't he think he could break when the player started the run up, not when he kicked it, or summat?

[Earl Hafler]

When people mention footballers not knowing the rules I keep thinking of that (nigerian?) defender who kept running from the wall to block a free kick. Didn't he think he could break when the player started the run up, not when he kicked it, or summat?

 

 

RACIST !!! RACIST !!! You're just laughing at the stupid African !!!

[Rory Fitzgerald]

When people mention footballers not knowing the rules I keep thinking of that (nigerian?) defender who kept running from the wall to block a free kick. Didn't he think he could break when the player started the run up, not when he kicked it, or summat?

 

Myself and a mate of mine were talking about that the other day, it was a free kick to the attacking team and when the ref blew the whistle, the guy broke from the wall and pelted the ball up the pitch before the opposition budged

[Rich Gobey]

Myself and a mate of mine were talking about that the other day, it was a free kick to the attacking team and when the ref blew the whistle, the guy broke from the wall and pelted the ball up the pitch before the opposition budged

 

Zaire V Brasil, 1974 world cup finals.

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

I am f***ing fuming. Last night, our 5-a-side league we had this ref who, for reasons unknown to me, is like a red rag to a bull to me. I don't know why, but I'm always going f***ing nuts at him and I'm usually quite a laid back person - yes, on the field (I'm in goal) I'm loud and gobby, but I don't get involved in rucks or anything....

 

Anyway - top of the table clash, so there was a lot riding on it - we started badly and then they came at us. I did an ok job at repelling an attack but the ball broke to an unmarked guy in the box, with me out of the equation - it came at him high, so he did the only thing he could, twisted & poked the ball over the line with his shoulder.

 

I restarted with a FK, but then the ref signalled it was a goal. So I went proper postal at him, shouting "it was f***ing handball!". To my amazement, the ref then patted his shoulder & said, "no, it was his shoulder" prompting me to go into meltdown asking him whether he knows what handball is & whether he knows the laws of the game. I was still having a go at him after FT.

 

I couldn't calm down, the c*** then gave the opposition an indrect FK because I swore at one of my own teammates....

 

12 hours later & I'm still like a cut snake

[stressederic]

There's a ref at my 5 a side league who is a complete spanner.

 

For ages the rule was that goalkeepers weren't allowed to kick the ball in their own area. If they did so it's a penalty.

 

A while back we were in a top of the table match and were putting the opposition under loads of pressure until their keeper was forced to clear the ball out of his own area with his feet.

 

We all scream for a penalty, the ref blows his whistle but then gives us a freekick from where the ball first bounced down the field.

 

I went mental.