It's CileyKeep digging that hole Miley.....
Pretty much yes, assuming the opponent has entered the penalty area before the ball is in play, you stop play as soon as it becomes apparent he is challenging for the ball - so (if possible) before the defender even gets the ball. Once that happens it's irrelevant whether the defender messes up his clearance or not, because play should have stopped before that happens.Can i ask at what point you are stopping the game and ordering a retake? Gordon, the Celtic keeper, is happy to play his short goal kick (which is what Celtic do), knowing Cowie is there. Do we stop it then?
None of which changes the text of the law that many people have quoted at you already in this thread. Just because an individual referee has missed something here, doesn't make it right.The ball is gone, its away, its on its merry way up the park, there is no challenge, there is nothing to challenge, the pass has been played, Boyata makes the same pass he makes ten times a game from the same goal kick routine.
My second pic from prev shows there is no challenge for the ball, its away when Cowie zooms in on Boyata.
But you've been saying for the last two pages that this WAS NOT a heinous infringement.Had the passes intended target not lost his footing 30 yards away from goal, nobody would to this day be any the wiser about this henious infringment by Cowie
But you've been saying for the last two pages that this WAS NOT a heinous infringement.
And now you are?
*sigh*
At the end of the day, you're saying that your intent if this happens to you is to ignore the law in the name of making your own life easier. That's obviously your choice to make, but I don't know why you're expecting a forum of referee to go along with it?
And you don't think it's at all possible that he just made a mistake?If its good enough for county's only Elite referee and his travelling buddy then, either they are both wrong, or, everyone else on here is....
I know whose judgement I go with every time
But as you (and others) have rightly said, simply being in the area is not sufficient cause to stop play and order a retake. No one is debating the Law, not even you, the point at issue is whether the attacker is genuinely challenging for the ball. Most on here are contending that he is and at that point play should be stopped. You are contending that he isn't ... which is entirely your prerogative ... it just doesn't seem well supported by the evidence provided.Mistaking actually seeing an attacker in the penalty area? AR also, between both of them, they cant see the attacker in the box?
This is not an interpretation call on who did what, Cowie is factually in the penalty area, there is no chance at all that these 2 officials, cannot see this
Its not a judgment call, he is factually there, in the box. Impossible not to see him in the box. Esp as both ref and AR are looking at it !!