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Apparently the penalty bit was just the Bradford players misconstruing the ref’s initial signal for a goal kick (before he went to consult AR1 and 4th). Bradford local paper yesterday suggests officials confirmed a pen was never a consideration. If the ball left the area before the Oxford...

Very true - would have removed all doubt from this issue yesterday if indeed it was all to do with law 16. If there was actually a proposed penalty involved as RustyRef says, it’s a different matter.

I saw this bit was getting debated yesterday i.e. what was the referee signalling for when he appeared to be ‘bringing it back’. First impression was penalty to Bradford although the way the Bradford player boots the ball back towards the Oxford goal from the halfway line after speaking to the...

Yep been reffing on and off for a while whilst also playing. My first instinct was that it was OK but then started to doubt myself given as you’ve said, you can take an inference from law 16’s wording but it isn’t spelt out as you have pointed out in law 13. Cheers.

Cheers. I’d gone to the offences part of the law where your quote is from and as you’ve said it clearly doesn’t suggest a retake for opponents just being in the area. My doubt though was down to the procedure part of the law stating no opponent in the area and then the offences element saying...

Morning all, down in L1 yesterday this happened: What you don’t see here is that after Oxford score (winning goal in 90+4 minute), the kick off didn’t happen for approx 5 mins as the referee spoke to his assistant nearest the Oxford goal about the legality of the goal kick in this clip, then...