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Originally Posted by BIG UMP
It is still a kick OOB. The ball has to touch an R player inbounds........ and this R player is not inbounds.
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This is the same as I thought, but I wasn't sure.
It just seems unfair to me that an OOB R player could reach back into the field, while he was still OOB, and touch/muff the ball and (even if the ball would not have gone OOB on it's own) the action of the R player causes K to be penalized.
Two lessons:
1. K should not kick a free kick even
near the side line.
2. What I preceive as "fair" and what is the proper ruling are not necessarily the same.
