We wonder if any other fans have noticed that it’s much, much harder to get free-kicked for holding the ball if you can retain your footing?
Once you lose your footing, the writing is already on the wall and the umpires are just itching to demonstrate their graceful sweeping action to denote a failure to dispose correctly (holding the ball) free kick.
Why is it that a player who retains his footing is treated so much differently to a player lying on the ground? Perhaps, when standing, if the ball is jarred free, it simply falls to the ground. When laying on the ground, the ball jarred free remains in pretty much the same position. Can it be that simple?
This is yet another example of the confusion that results from a zero-tolerance approach to umpiring.
And how do we finish, people? All together now, Release the Giesch!!!
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