I had to give a contested dropped ball yesterday, the first for some time. I was fairly sure the ball from the adjacent pitch had struck our ball while it was very close to the touchline. Weirdly, everyone else seemed to miss it, but I felt the interference was, in any event, sufficient to stop play. Sportingly, the U14 away captain offered to pass it back to the home keeper, but given that this was a cause so out of the blue, I decided to call over two players. Finding a sensible position from which to drop the ball was quite difficult in this situation, but one attempt turned out to be enough.