i dont tkink it was a goal kick st but at the time i didnt understand it. the guy next to me said it might have been offside.
That was the only thing I wondered - I couldn't work out whether it was a goal kick or if a freekick had been given for something. Based on the reaction of our players, they thought it was a dead ball, so it was pretty bizarre. So ignoring that, I'm hoping you've got some rare positives about the performance and victory?
Had exactly the same conversation at the time was going to check the rules but I guess I don't need to
Pretty certain you cant be offside from a goalkick. And watching the Linesman explaining to Gray afterwards i think he may have thought it was a free kick rather than a goalkick. So Refs fault for not over ruling him.....
Didn't know this? "A goal may be scored directly from a goal kick, but only against the opposing team. An own goal may not be scored from a goal kick; should the ball happen to land directly into the own goal, a corner kick is awarded to the opposing team."
That actually happened to me once I was playing in goal, took a goal kick, ball went out of the area and then blew back over my head into the goal. All hell broke loose, ref correctly gave a corner. Funny thing was the guy taking the corner forgot to allow for the wind. The ball landed about 50 yards behind the goal in another field.