Six second rule

[jertzee]

In the laws of the game as printed by FIFA for 2012-13 season it states...

 

An indirect freekick shall  be given if a goalkeeper....

controls the ball with his hands for more than six seconds before releasing it from his posession.

 

I thought this law had been scrapped.

Can anyone confirm whether it has or not?

 

We've had a season full of arguments over whether it has or hasn't and I can't bear another season like that.

 

[HKP]

Law wasn't scrapped, it is as you say still there, but can't recall it being used in a match I have watched for years.

http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/footballdevelopment/refereeing/81/42/36/lawsofthegame_2012_e.pdf

 

[Mewcenary]

It's there and gives the referee the ability to sort out keepers that are deliberately time wasting.  To be fair, I have never seen it happen - it's far more common for a keeper to time-waste on standard goal kicks near the end of the game.

 

This is where a degree of common sense can be deployed: I'm pretty sure players don't want to be seeing these free kicks given if the goalkeeper takes 6.1 seconds to release the ball.

[Terrence Collina]

you will find that if a referee awards a free kick for it, he will spend the rest of the game doing doggies because both goalkeepers start releasing the ball after a couple of seconds.

[jertzee]

Doing doggies?????

[Rother]

I think I posted somewhere at the time that, in the Semi Final of the CCL Youth Cup the ref penalised the Windsor 'keeper under the 6 second rule.

 

It was a bit of a farce really because most observers didn't think he'd actually had it for any more than 6 seconds, certainly nowhere near the standard 10 to 12 that is now generally seems accepted across the world, and there were a couple of oppo players in fairly close proximity as well, which would have made the 'keeper slightly more cautious than he might otherwise have been.

 

When challenged the ref said, "the rules are there for a reason".

 

There is no doubt that the refs do apply a different set of rules when officiating Youth Games - bad language and dissent is stamped on far more and they seem more prone to blowing for what appears to me, signs of physical strength, rather than foul play.

 

Can the refs confirm whether this is a conscious approach (under instruction from the authorities perhaps?), or more a sub-conscious determination to look after the youngsters and maintain respect. (No-one likes to see kids, which a lot of them are, shouting obscenities, after all.)

[Mewcenary]

From my point of view, I think I am consistent with dissent, be it at youth or senior level.  However, sometimes youth players don't have the same ability to be 'cute' with their comments like senior players in order to sail close to the wind!  In other words, they may just come straight out with gobbing off, and so might be more likely to pick up a caution.

 

I haven't seem the same thing regarding physical play though.  The U18 games I have done this season, typically in the Southern Youth League, have been more free flowing in that regard compared to the CCFL: The players have used their strength where appropriate, and (this is the key part) just got with it without complaining when they have been out-muscled.

[jertzee]

 The U18 games I have done this season, typically in the Southern Youth League, have been more free flowing in that regard compared to the CCFL: The players have used their strength where appropriate, and (this is the key part) just got with it without complaining when they have been out-muscled.

 

Interesting comment - when I was watching my daughter play for Carshalton A U-14's against AFC Wimbledon's U-14 last weekend there was a fair bit of "strong" shoulder/arm barges, getting worse throughout the game, many made before the girls had come within a yard of a loose ball.

 

The ref let them all go but they probably weren't any worse than the pro's do but it just seemed worse because of their ages and because they were girsls(not being sexist, they just don't goo in as hard generally).

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