Arsenal v Sunderland - backpass

[David F]

Clearly a backpass at 4:37 in the YouTube clip, but why is the IDFK taken from right on the goal line (in fact, slightly inside the six yard box)?

Surely it should've been from the point on the goal area line closest to the incident parallel to the goal line, which would have been a much better scoring opportunity? That is, six yards out almost in line with the post…

 

[bester]

Brain fart or lack of law knowledge? They've at least realised that it shouldn't be taken from the point of the offence.

Did the referee mark out 10-yards? Certainly doesn't look like it!

 

[Sheffields Finest]

Since when can you scoop it up like that!!! I thought that was not allowed (Dennis Tueart etc)

 

[Engin Ataman]

wow unless the rule has changed just wow

 

[richard ramjane]

Since when can you scoop it up like that!!! I thought that was not allowed (Dennis Tueart etc)

A free kick can be taken by lifting the ball with a foot or both feet simultaneously


but yes should have been on the parallell goal line

 

[Sheffields Finest]

A free kick can be taken by lifting the ball with a foot or both feet simultaneously

Isn't that a scoop though???

 

[richard ramjane]

all in one movement though? i'd be happy with it

 

[AlexF]

Isn't that a scoop though???

And completely legal by the laws. Lifting == "scooping".

 

[Sheffields Finest]

Fair enough, see, I've learned something, never seen it done since the 70s, i'd assumed it was outlawed!!

 

[JamesL]

Fair enough, see, I've learned something, never seen it done since the 70s, i'd assumed it was outlawed!!

I remember Benny and Paulo used to do it in the 90s

Ahhh the good old days

 

[Peter Grove]

Fair enough, see, I've learned something, never seen it done since the 70s, i'd assumed it was outlawed!!

I think it was - for a few years at least. In the year following the (in)famous Willie Carr/Ernie Hunt free kick in 1970, the IFAB banned lifting the ball with both feet and I think the same prohibition applied to lifting it with one foot. However at some point that ruling was reversed. I'm not sure exactly when, but it was at some point between 1990 and 2000 because the 1990 FIFA Q&A said it was not allowed but in 2000 the opposite was the case.