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Would love some clarification on the LOTG. In the match yesterday, one of the Birmingham players went down with an injury during a QPR attack just outside the Birmingham area. Ref stops game, fair enough, he'd done the same in the first half for a QPR injury. Anyway when the player got up, the ref walked about forty yards with the ball up the pitch, chucked the ball at the QPR player in their own half and allowed the Birmingham player to immediately challenge for it.
I've never seen this happen before and I wondered if there's some rule that I'd missed that refs have discretion to move a drop ball in this way. Not looking for an argument about this from any QPR or Birmingham fans, just wanted to check on the rules for future reference or any feedback of potential reasoning for it.
I've never seen this happen before and I wondered if there's some rule that I'd missed that refs have discretion to move a drop ball in this way. Not looking for an argument about this from any QPR or Birmingham fans, just wanted to check on the rules for future reference or any feedback of potential reasoning for it.