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No way am I throwing Seaman in the air. Come off it.
In answer to your question yes there is a law preventing this happening. I can't remember what the penalty is if it occurred. I think it is an indirect free kick. It would be the same as using an outfield player to gain height to head a ball eg using his shoulders with your hands (piggy back).
Until someone gets trampled to death.Yet the new fangled "draught excluder" behind the wall thing seems to be legit.
On his podcast, Crouchie was saying that it must be the most degrading thing every, to be the draught excluder.Yet the new fangled "draught excluder" behind the wall thing seems to be legit.
On his podcast, Crouchie was saying that it must be the most degrading thing every, to be the draught excluder.
It's like your only use to the team at this dangerous moment, is to lay on the floor facing away from the game!
They were really laying into it.
If find it both ridiculous and hilarious and I hope to never see us use it as a "tactic".
On his podcast, Crouchie was saying that it must be the most degrading thing every, to be the draught excluder.
It's like your only use to the team at this dangerous moment, is to lay on the floor facing away from the game!
They were really laying into it.
If find it both ridiculous and hilarious and I hope to never see us use it as a "tactic".
Nah, I'm just dead against it.Until somebody fires a low shot under our wall and into the net aat which point you'll be asking wtf happened to our draught excluder.
I've genuinely thought about this when players "take the ball to the corner" when wasting time. If you had one smaller player (let's say Lucas) facing the corner flag with the ball, and two bigger players (let's say Kane and Sissoko) facing him but shielding him about 2 ft away it would be nearly impossible for anyone to get to him.
Again it might come under obstruction or unsporting behaviour but it could easily waste 90 seconds.
I feel like this is an utterly stupid or interesting question. (Depending on which way you choose to look at it)
But I just watched the England game where Sczeszczczszny (sp?) got fouled from a corner and it got me to thinking...
Regardless of how ineffective or brilliant it might be, is there anything in the rules that would prevent a pair of defenders literally lifting up the goalkeeper to be able to more easily claim a lofted in corner kick?
(Similar to rugby when a throw in or line out whatever it’s called is taken).
I then got to thinking if there are rules that state this type of thing isn’t allowed, because you could do some pretty creative things leveraging other players on your team for some kind of advantage.
I’ve often wondered for instance whether you could literally line up 11 of your players on the goal line to create an actual wall in front of goal in certain situations (I’m sure that has actually been done before when defending an indirect free kick in the penalty area conceded from a back pass). The “draught excluder” is one that seems to be becoming more popular etc.
Non-standard play or thinking outside of the box if you like.
Obstruction is when the ball is not within the plaing distance of either defender or attacker. eg if the attacking player plays the ball into open space and the defending player blocks him it's obstruction. But if both of the players can equally reach the ball 'barging" is allowed, eg as we quite often see in the corner "time wasting".Yeah that's definitely obstruction. As you say though would probably waste a fair bit of time but then I guess if you did something that takes the piss quite as much as that a lot of refs would make sure they added all the time on the make up for it
Obstruction is when the ball is not within the plaing distance of either defender or attacker. eg if the attacking player plays the ball into open space and the defending player blocks him it's obstruction. But if both of the players can equally reach the ball 'barging" is allowed, eg as we quite often see in the corner "time wasting".