Drawing the line on free kicks

[bolt pp]

so unnecessary

[Colchester Kev]

Seriously, they fuck about with 4 officials to a game, and now spray marking ten yards but they wont put a camera in the goal posts to check if the ball goes over the line.

Ridic idea.

[Scottish Dave]

In my opinion, its a load of pish!

all its going to do is break the game up even more. boring.

[kinboshi]

In my opinion, its a load of pish!

all its going to do is break the game up even more. boring.

It would actually speed it up.

[Scottish Dave]

In my opinion, its a load of pish!

all its going to do is break the game up even more. boring.

It would actually speed it up.

I beg to differ mate, let me tell you a tale for the Euro's this summer

Portugal v Czech Rep.

Scottish Dave, has a Scorecast bet on....... Deco First Goal, and Potrugal to win 3-1.....priced @ 150/1

Deco scores 1st in 12th Minute, and Czech equalise just before half time

Ronaldo makes it 2-1 in 78th minute.

Then in the 3rd minute of 3 minutes injury time, Deco is fouled at the edge of his own 18 yard box..........


Senario 1 - What actually happened:

He immediately stands up, looks up to see Ronaldo on the half way line, and thumps the ball high up the park while everyone else is just standing about......Ronaldo runs through 'one on one' and side foots it to a team mate, who taps in into an open net!

Result -  Dave wins a tidy sum of Dosh!


Senario 2 - What would have happened, if this rule was introduced:

Deco would Stand up, and have to wait on the ref getting the stray out, and spraying the line...... in which time, the Czech's would have got themselves sorted and got men back to mark Ronaldo on the half way line. Meaning Deco passes to a team mate near him who them passes back to Deco blah blah blah, and the ref blows the whistle for Full Time

Result - I smash my TV in for UEFA losing me a tidy sum of Dosh!

[Josedinho]

Depends on the refs imo. If they continue to allow quick free kicks it's fine but it's when refs go to mark the line and somebody takes a quick one and the ref misses what happens that problems may start as some will just go with the "wait for the whistle" so they don't miss anything.

[kinboshi]

In my opinion, its a load of pish!

all its going to do is break the game up even more. boring.

It would actually speed it up.

I beg to differ mate, let me tell you a tale for the Euro's this summer... <snip>

Quick free-kicks can still be taken.  The same way as the wall isn't moved back 10 yards on a quickly-taken free-kick.  So the scenario above would have still played out as it did.

I was talking about speeding up the game when the referee has said to wait for his whistle.  Instead of messing about with the wall, retaken free-kicks, it's all dealt with in a matter of seconds, and the game continues.