RefJef
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I made a howler today.
As it happens, the right outcome might have been reached but I'll admit if it did, it was despite my actions, not because of it.
Any thoughts welcome. Here goes:
Blues v Whites, OA, 4-4 with circa 10 mins to go. White corner, I position myself on or around edge of box. Blues win the ball, hoof it up field, a rapid break is on.
I'm sprinting to get up with play. Blue attacker & white defender are chasing the ball, white keeper comes out to clear (everyone else is still in the blue half).
Mix up between white defender & keeper. Keeper (out of his box - level with edge of D, perhaps) throws up his hands, touches ball, but it falls beyond him (between him and goal) and blue attacker races onto the ball. He's still got a bit to do (bring ball under control & shoot) but in my mind, he's going to (has to) score. I'm still sprinting to keep up (get up with) play.
Blue attacker about 10 yards out and about to roll the ball into the net when the white defender makes a fantastic covering tackle and clears the ball the behind the goal, the ball passing a yard from the post. I immediately signal for a corner. All this has happened in seconds - the time it has taken me to sprint from one box to the other.
The blue attacker is looking a bit quizzical "what is it ref?" "Corner" I reply. My initial thoughts were that he was angling for a penalty for the challenge from the white defender. It was a great covering tackle, no penalty.
In all the excitement and sprinting, I'd completely missed that the keeper handled out of his area! (I was probably just into the attacking half when this happened)
So what should I have done? As I see it, there are few options:
I admit, I made a mistake today - missing the handball (or more accurately, where the keeper handled the ball). It was a good natured pre-season friendly played by two footballing sides that ended 4-4 and at the end of the game no-one was too bothered about my **** up: home team managers (blues) were more than happy and hope to see me again in the season(!) But I appreciate that in a close league encounter, the outcome could have been very different.
Sorry for the long post - probably taken you longer to read than for the whole event to unfold, but as ever, I'm keen to learn, so would be happy to hear opinions, advice and suggestions.
As it happens, the right outcome might have been reached but I'll admit if it did, it was despite my actions, not because of it.
Any thoughts welcome. Here goes:
Blues v Whites, OA, 4-4 with circa 10 mins to go. White corner, I position myself on or around edge of box. Blues win the ball, hoof it up field, a rapid break is on.
I'm sprinting to get up with play. Blue attacker & white defender are chasing the ball, white keeper comes out to clear (everyone else is still in the blue half).
Mix up between white defender & keeper. Keeper (out of his box - level with edge of D, perhaps) throws up his hands, touches ball, but it falls beyond him (between him and goal) and blue attacker races onto the ball. He's still got a bit to do (bring ball under control & shoot) but in my mind, he's going to (has to) score. I'm still sprinting to keep up (get up with) play.
Blue attacker about 10 yards out and about to roll the ball into the net when the white defender makes a fantastic covering tackle and clears the ball the behind the goal, the ball passing a yard from the post. I immediately signal for a corner. All this has happened in seconds - the time it has taken me to sprint from one box to the other.
The blue attacker is looking a bit quizzical "what is it ref?" "Corner" I reply. My initial thoughts were that he was angling for a penalty for the challenge from the white defender. It was a great covering tackle, no penalty.
In all the excitement and sprinting, I'd completely missed that the keeper handled out of his area! (I was probably just into the attacking half when this happened)
So what should I have done? As I see it, there are few options:
- Play on, I really did think that blues were going to score (although I'll be honest, I wasn't playing advantage, didn't call advantage or signal it. I was too busy sprinting and wrapped up in the moment. I think that if the ball hadn't broken for blues the keeper's foul would have been obvious and I'd have blown up - it was the fact that play continued as breakneck speed that made me miss it.) Blues had an excellent opportunity to score, but didn't. Restart with a corner. This is what happened.
- Blow up when the keeper handled the ball. Red card for dogso; restart with direct free kick outside the area. I think the blue striker might have been miffed that I robbed him of a good goal scoring opportunity - he'd have more likely scored from the free play than the free kick, although sending the keeper off would have mitigated this.
- Allow play to continue, restart with a corner once missed. Yellow card for keeper.
- Allow play to continue, go back to the handball when defender cleared (no advantage accrued), restart with DFK, Yellow for keeper.
I admit, I made a mistake today - missing the handball (or more accurately, where the keeper handled the ball). It was a good natured pre-season friendly played by two footballing sides that ended 4-4 and at the end of the game no-one was too bothered about my **** up: home team managers (blues) were more than happy and hope to see me again in the season(!) But I appreciate that in a close league encounter, the outcome could have been very different.
Sorry for the long post - probably taken you longer to read than for the whole event to unfold, but as ever, I'm keen to learn, so would be happy to hear opinions, advice and suggestions.