Playback to the keep

[danpri]

Early this season as an AR I saw a ball was played from a midfield player to his fullback. The pass was errant and the fullback missed the ball. The goalie gathered the ball. I did not 'wiggle" the flag as I felt that it had not been deliberately played back to the goalie, even through it was deliberately played back. After the game while reviewing the Center discussed with me that this aspect of play had been significantly tightened to the point that even miskicks/glances off the fullbacks foot that end up at the goalie has to be played by the goalies foot, otherwise it is to be treated as the "deliberate handling of the ball". We spoke for sometime about the current philosophical interpretation and game instances but I have not found anything in print or discussion and remain concerned about this application without for data.

Are there any reference material or direction for this?



[Edited by danpri on Sep 28th, 2004 at 06:59 PM]