Kevin Friend

How does our scorer get booked for celebrating with his own fans, but he doesn't get booked for inciting hatred in front of thousands of opposition fans?

 

Our scorer didn't get booked did he, I thought he'd shown the card to Roberts. Mindst you in this fixture we shouldn't be surprised about showing a card to the wrong player.

 

It wasn't clear to me so you could be right. Still don't understand how celebrating with your own is deemed worse.

 

I thought it was MacDonald who was booked.

 

McDonald, Hammill and Kent were booked during the game

 

MacDonald left the field of play when he ran into ESL. That's a booking.

 

Showed card to Robbo, Angus was still in Ponty end and didn't get shown a card

 

So is what piggall did. You can't allow one and then book another

 

Yet another piss poor referee who showed the card to the wrong player. I suppose they both have heads and are quite tall

 

Thought he was decent today


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What about the back pass that he didn't see

 

Came off his knee

 

Nope knee is a backpass

 

Unfortunately MacDonald's is a clear booking under the current rules.

I've not got the evidence to hand but I saw a tweet of the law & it was about inviting the home crowd been a booking so yes Winnall should've been booked for his celebration, no doubt about it

 

Law 12 (celebrating a goal)
A player must be cautioned for

• gesturing in a provocative, derisory or inflammatory way

 

Backpass rule applies when the ball is kicked back to the keeper (i.e.: Use of the foot).

"The offense rests on three events occurring in the following sequence:
– The ball is kicked (played with the foot, not the knee, thigh, or shin) by a teammate of the goalkeeper,
– This action is deemed to be deliberate, rather than a deflection or miskick, and
– The goalkeeper handles the ball directly (no intervening touch of play of the ball by anyone else)

When, in the opinion of the referee, these three conditions are met, the violation has occurred. It is not necessary for the ball to be “passed,” it is not necessary for the ball to go “back,” and it is not necessary for the deliberate play by the teammate to be “to” the goalkeeper."

 

However the following will apply if the referee deems so:

"While not an infringement of the back-pass rule, players are also prohibited from using a deliberate trick to pass the ball to the goalkeeper with a part of the body other than the foot to circumvent the rule. This would include, but not be limited to:

• flicking the ball up with the foot and then heading the ball back to the goalkeeper, or
• heading a ball on the ground that would otherwise be regularly playable with the foot.

If a player uses such a trick, they are cautioned for unsporting behaviour, and the opponents are awarded an indirect free kick from where the trick was performed. It is irrelevant as to whether the goalkeeper subsequently handles the ball or not"

If it were to any other player than the keeper would he have used his knee??

 

You're right, I agree, he wouldn't have used his knee to give the ball to anyone else on the pitch. But he's used his knowledge of the rule well. If he'd flicked it up with his foot, and then "kneed" it, that'd be a trick I'd have thought and penalised.

There was a game on Sky very recently when something similar happened, the commentator was criticising the ref until Peter Beagrie told him the rule.