GloryDays
Well-known member
Not sure this is entirely true though do excuse me if I’ve misinterpreted your quote. Every so often I see players leaving the pitch the gain an advantage but the referee exhibits common sense and allows to play on, like when Gareth Bale and other stupidly fast players take the long route around defenders via leaving the field to sprint down the line, or when a winger will smash in a cross but leave the field and stay off the pitch during the phase to avoid being caught up in an offside. Pretty certain they don’t need permission.
The initiative to get permission is to ease the pandemic of feigning injury which frankly would be out of control if players could come and go as they wished, and to guard against this;
....Where anyone could run on to the pitch and put it in the net and give the ref a headache. But they, and the ball, would have to be on the pitch. They would not be able to drop kick the ball from the sidelines in to the net. That wouldn’t pose a problem.
