Quick question: if you award advantage to a team but they fail to take advantage because they're waving their hands about asking for the free kick and such, do you still play on, even if they lose the advantage?
Quick question: if you award advantage to a team but they fail to take advantage because they're waving their hands about asking for the free kick and such, do you still play on, even if they lose the advantage?
Actually, a free kick is to restore the balance. Advantage is when you detect restoring of balance is not needed.Advantage is to restore the balance after they have been fouled.
This is the lot of the referee. You're damned either way here.Quick question: if you award advantage to a team but they fail to take advantage because they're waving their hands about asking for the free kick and such, do you still play on, even if they lose the advantage?
A key point missing here is how long was there between the foul and the arm throwing and ruined advantage.This is the lot of the referee. You're damned either way here.
If you blow the whistle, then the defending team will complain that you only blew it because they stopped (and...well....they'd be right).
Don't blow, they keep complaining. Do blow, and players are clearly telling you how to referee.
Ahh screw it, abandon
Personally, I've always been in the 'if you're going to stand around flapping your arms, it's your problem' camp. Another shout of 'PLAY ON ADVANTAGE' usually gets it going without too much dissent....though bear in mind you might see a frustrated reckless tackle if the other team gets the ball.
Related, one of my pet hates is when a player running feels an opponent put a hand on him or grab a fistful of shirt....and stops running putting his hands up. Too many referees give a FK in response to that.
I'm not giving a FK unless I can see the player is actually affected.
A key point missing here is how long was there between the foul and the arm throwing and ruined advantage.
Based on this example, it seems to me like they expected the free kick and threw their arms up frustrated wanting the foul and thus, there was never actually an advantage in the first place.