Swimboy64
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- Oct 19, 2022
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The law used to be that it had to be intentional for a penalty to be awardedDoesn’t have to be a goal scoring opportunity. Doesn’t have to be on purpose.
But Lamptey does make a genuine attempt to play the ball. Does make contact but not cleanly.
The attacker goes into Lamptey who hasn’t moved to obstruct, he’s still in a falling motion. The ball’s direction deviates from Lamptey’s touch and the attacker has made a movement away from the ball. It’s a close one.
If the ref deemed it not intentional it wasn’t awarded
That’s how it was when I qualified as a ref in the early 80s I’m not sure if the law now but someone on here will probably tell us
That also applied to handball aswell