9 thoughts on “Nice sporting gesture in the soccerball”
For those who don't speak Soccerese, it's etiquette for a team to give the ball back to the opposition into a neutral area if the referee's stopped play for an injury.
This lofted back pass flew into the top corner and, unfortunately as far as the referee is concerned, it's a goal from 'open play' and so it stands. He can't cancel it out.
The only option is to allow the other team to go score themselves uncontested.
This happens every once in a blue moon, and it's nice to see all the players and both managers work it out between them (no thanks to the officials being rules-is-rules)
(Unless you're cheating scumbags from Bromley…. but that's another story. We still got promoted and they're still a shit non-league club full of chavs and pikeys… 😉 )
I suppose a comparison would be at a baseball game and an outfielder colliding with the fence trying to catch the ball and getting knocked out – the batter refusing to make it an inside-the-ballpark home run and stopping on second or third base.
Or, if one team did take advantage of a nasty injury, the next innings, allowing the first batter up to walk the bases.
If that makes sense? I don't even know if there is that etiquette anywhere in North American sports, although it sort of reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaXVk5GBx-s
It's convention – either team intentionally kicks the ball out of there's a bad injury, or the referee can halt play himself – especially for a head injury – and then do a (usually uncontested) 'drop ball'. However, once the ball's back in play, either way, it's a live ball. It's a common courtesy though to lob it back to one or other team and then play on from there. One of the few gentlemanly things left in soccer! Although, as I alluded to, there are obviously no gentlemen left in Bromley. 😉 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/a…
Thanks! (Really, I feel like a soccerball moron despite having played the game for a few years.. a million years ago.. in the 80's.) I am a complete American soccerball idiot. Some of the members on our Bristol Hurricanes team (sounds so Brit, don't it?) were elated when one team forfeited by not showing up.. I think it was one of two games we won that year.
Woo hoo! Everybody got a nice participation/shit team plaque that year and I remember they misspelled the name– "Herricane's". The worst. Strangely enough, the apostrophe is what really sent me into a rage.
As much as I'm not a fan of the Yankees (I'm not a fan of the yankees), in Game 6 of the 2004 ALCS they didn't try a single bunt, which would have forced Schilling to field his position and possibly make his ankle tendon pop out of his leg. Some people speculated that the yanks were (gasp!) being true sportsmen.
Edit: then of course, in the 8th inning, A Rod smacked the ball out of Arroyo's hand, proving that A Rod is not a sportsman.
For those who don't speak Soccerese, it's etiquette for a team to give the ball back to the opposition into a neutral area if the referee's stopped play for an injury.
This lofted back pass flew into the top corner and, unfortunately as far as the referee is concerned, it's a goal from 'open play' and so it stands. He can't cancel it out.
The only option is to allow the other team to go score themselves uncontested.
This happens every once in a blue moon, and it's nice to see all the players and both managers work it out between them (no thanks to the officials being rules-is-rules)
(Unless you're cheating scumbags from Bromley…. but that's another story. We still got promoted and they're still a shit non-league club full of chavs and pikeys… 😉 )
Anyway, thought i'd share!
thank you, I was just about to ask WTF did i just watch?
I suppose a comparison would be at a baseball game and an outfielder colliding with the fence trying to catch the ball and getting knocked out – the batter refusing to make it an inside-the-ballpark home run and stopping on second or third base.
Or, if one team did take advantage of a nasty injury, the next innings, allowing the first batter up to walk the bases.
If that makes sense? I don't even know if there is that etiquette anywhere in North American sports, although it sort of reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaXVk5GBx-s
Thx, womble, asked and answered.
They should've just tallied it a goal and left out the technical shit. Aren't there derp rules?
It's convention – either team intentionally kicks the ball out of there's a bad injury, or the referee can halt play himself – especially for a head injury – and then do a (usually uncontested) 'drop ball'. However, once the ball's back in play, either way, it's a live ball. It's a common courtesy though to lob it back to one or other team and then play on from there. One of the few gentlemanly things left in soccer! Although, as I alluded to, there are obviously no gentlemen left in Bromley. 😉
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/a…
Thanks! (Really, I feel like a soccerball moron despite having played the game for a few years.. a million years ago.. in the 80's.) I am a complete American soccerball idiot. Some of the members on our Bristol Hurricanes team (sounds so Brit, don't it?) were elated when one team forfeited by not showing up.. I think it was one of two games we won that year.
Woo hoo! Everybody got a nice participation/shit team plaque that year and I remember they misspelled the name– "Herricane's". The worst. Strangely enough, the apostrophe is what really sent me into a rage.
you are like the Herricanes- there's calm in your eye…
This is so weird. Our sports tend to have actual rules, not rely on chivalry.
As much as I'm not a fan of the Yankees (I'm not a fan of the yankees), in Game 6 of the 2004 ALCS they didn't try a single bunt, which would have forced Schilling to field his position and possibly make his ankle tendon pop out of his leg. Some people speculated that the yanks were (gasp!) being true sportsmen.
Edit: then of course, in the 8th inning, A Rod smacked the ball out of Arroyo's hand, proving that A Rod is not a sportsman.