Goal or No Goal?

[Eastshire]

Originally Posted by ref2coach

With the benefit of stop motion and enlargement, I am going to say it should not have been a goal. The GK's team mate initially dislodged the ball from his possession. Then the GK again got both hands onto the ball at that point the play should have been whistled dead.

With my assessor's hat on I would question the CR on his level of effort, I would have liked to see him sprinting into the top of the PA when the player went wide and all the way to the goal line. Had he done that he would have been in the camera shot somewhere between the top of the PA and the GA.

Even if the keeper did somehow get both hands on it, which I don't see at all, why in the world would you stop play at that point? IMO the keeper loses possession without a touch from the opposing team until after the ball is away from the keeper. Beyond that, the CR is at the top of the area looking directly at the keeper during the play in question from no more than 15 yards away.