129. Edgar Davids, 2010
Click to enlarge, and debate the strip below the line. Keith Hackett's verdict 1) Having blown your whistle before the ball hit the back of the net, you now have no choice: award a penalty and send the defender off. If you had delayed your whistle to wait for the outcome of the move, you would have been in a position to award the goal – the defender would then have received a yellow card for unsporting behaviour. Sean DeLoughry wins the shirt for this question. 2) Play on. The defender is not guilty of dangerous play (defined as "any action that, while trying to play the ball, threatens injury to someone, including the player himself"), and he did not deliberately pass the ball back to the keeper with his foot, so there's no offence. Thanks to Carlos Alonso. 3) A corner to the home team. The law is clear on this: "A goal may be scored directly from a corner kick, but only against the opposing team." So the away team corner kicker has effectively managed to kick the ball behind his own goalline. Thanks to Orkhan Mammadov. Competition: win an official club shirt of your choice For a chance to win a club shirt from the range at Kitbag.com send us your questions for You are the Ref to [email protected] . The best scenario used in the new Observer YATR strip each Sunday wins a shirt of your choice from Kitbag . Terms & conditions apply. For more on the fifty year history of You Are The Ref, click here .
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