Take a bow Mr East very good game

UPTHEPORT wrote:Take a bow Mr East very good game

Not surprised, he's reffed regularly in the Championship and has many years experience.

Agreed

Thought he let us off the hook when he stopped play and booked Pipe, with Nouble running clear.

I thought he made a few mistakes. He missed the back pass to the keeper who picked up the ball. Couple of dubious decisions - all against the County of course.

The back pass was off the thigh of Jacko, so was within the rules ( I think)

Threadbare wrote:The back pass was off the thigh of Jacko, so was within the rules ( I think)

I'm unsure of the exact ruling of that . I thought off any part of the leg is deemed back pass?

OLDCROMWELLIAN wrote:

Threadbare wrote:The back pass was off the thigh of Jacko, so was within the rules ( I think)

I'm unsure of the exact ruling of that . I thought off any part of the leg is deemed back pass?

"deliberately kicked to the goalkeeper by a team-mate"

Can you "kick" with your thigh ?
I would jave thought a kick is with your foot ?

It seems perverse that any part of the leg doesn't = kick if any part of the arm does = handball.

I thought the ref had turned away because the keeper was going to collect the header back to him anyway.

Threadbare wrote:Can you "kick" with your thigh ?
I would jave thought a kick is with your foot ?

You can certainly control and direct a ball with you thigh, calf.Any pass back deliberately via a leg or foot should had resulted with a free kick from where the keeper picked it up
I thought the ref was far from perfect, his biggest mistake was not playing advantage after Pipes foul, he also failed to take action against Colchester continually taking quickj throw ins 5 yards further forward than when they went out

Refs generally seem to be more lax on where throws are taken this season, I'm wondering if they've been told to make it a low priority.

The laws of the game clearly state backpasses have to be made with the foot, as you don't kick with a leg. "It has been deliberately kicked to the goalkeeper by a team-mate".

You have always been able to thigh the ball back. What you can't do is artificially contrive a backpass (eg chipping the ball onto your own head to head back, or kneeling down to thigh back a ball on the ground).

East is a decent ref even at Prem level, not surprised he did well yesterday.