What would you do in this situation

That's a funny clip where did you find it Harry??

I would say that it's a RC to the thrower for violent conduct.

YC to the player who got hit with the ball for failing to be the required distance as he wasn't 2m.

Restart with a direct FK to the blue team, as you should punish the more serious offence.

refsworld at 08:33AM on Feb 05, 2009

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What would you do in this situation

Hi Harry,

I would YC the thrower for trying a "trick" to circumvent the rules/spirit and award a foul throw.

Regards....Phil Traianedes

Very funny video harry.

I would give a red card to the player who did not respect the required distance as it was the second yellow card as he doesn't have a clue. The thrower was a genius

refsworld at 08:33AM on Feb 05, 2009

What would you do in this situation

I have had another look at this. The player who got it in the face would still get a YC as standing less than 2m. He is also protecting himself as though he expects something to happen. The thrower if he had not done somersault would have given him a RC for violent conduct. As he has done a somersault, he may not have done it deliberately in nomal speed on the field so would have given him a YC as a benefit of the doubt. Would have called a foul throw.

Tony Wilms

Since there is no date on the video and i presume its an old video all i would do is award a throw in to the white team. As the ball clearly was last touched by a member of the blue team. If it were current the player taking the throw in would not have been allowed to take the throw as he was wearing black undergarments and i would have made him remove them before entering the field. lol

I think that you would have to show the red card to the player throwing the ball in for serious foul play. I would do this rather than violent conduct as the incident occured in the playing of the ball.

The act was a deliberate attempt to injure the other player. He had a clear view of where the ball was going to go when he threw it and would have to be aware of the potential injury from throwing it directly at a player at that speed.

As stated above, you could also show the victim a yellow card for failing to retire the required distance. This would depend on whether I (or the AR) asked the player to step back the 2m before the ball was thrown. In attempting to prevent such an incident, I would be asking the player to move back BEFORE the throw was taken!

I would not, as Tony stated, award a foul throw because the throw was technically legal. I think I would restart with a indirect free kick, for playing in a dangerous manner.

Very interesting incident though. There are perhaps several equally correct decisions as there is a certain amount of judgement of intent that comes into it.

Andrew

I was showing this to my wife and I have slightly changed my answer!

Initially I elected for an indirect free kick because it did not cleanly fit into one of the 10 DFK offences. I initially called it an IDFK as he was actually playing the ball legally but in a dangerous manner.

As I thought more about it, I decided that a direct free kick was more appropriate especially as in my decision of the red card, I judged it intentional. It could well be called striking as the law does not specify striking with a fist/arm and so striking with an object is valid.

Andrew

Harry can you give us all the answer to this topic.?

I see a lot of people have said they would issue a red card because the ball hit the player in the face.

If it was a free kick and the players were standing in the wall and the ball hit one of the players standing in the wall in the face would they still give the player taking the free kick a red card.?

Over to you now Harry.