Soccer Ref Education - Seven Clips. How Many Fouls? (Fair Or Foul #39) 

I thought it was just good defense. He’s allowed to have his body spread out like that to play defense. I didn’t really see much there. Maybe a push but too soft to call imo

@@oddbigking9069 Fair enough. It's within the realm of judgement calls, as so many rules are in soccer. I work games at the low end of competitiveness (house league/rec & the lowest levels of youth district play), so I tend towards calling things pretty tight to the letter of the law. Per the rulebook, shoulder-to-shoulder is the only type of contact where a push of any sort is explicitly allowed. Bumping and grinding happens as a natural course of fighting for the ball, but when I see a push, check, or hit that's moving an opponent off the ball with something other than shoulder-to-shoulder, my inclination is to call it. It's definitely something that wouldn't fly at higher levels of competition, and I'm cool with that. I love working these lowest-level games, and have no desire to go up the ladder. So, in summary, I see a foul that I would call here, but I totally get why someone else wouldn't.

Lets say technically the throw was a bit off, would you have whistled on that particular one though?

@@prs314 I’d consider the flow/vibe in the game before blowing the whistle, but yea I call foul throw all the time for sloppy throws like this one. More often I blow the whistle for feet. I think some find it annoying but I try to demand a certain respect for the game with routine stuff like this.

Totally agree. I thought it was a foul throw so I was confused why there were 0! Not a foul after though.

yep, ball wasn't thrown over the head, it was thrown in front of the head

@@prs314 What no way

@@grahamfox4279 Look for yourself in slow motion. Releasing the ball is the last step of the "throw". Ball not released over the head -> ball is not "thrown over the head". Law 15: "throw the ball with both hands from behind and over the head..."

Why would you call the foul on the throw in?

​@@prs314here is what IFAB states for the rules of a throw in: At the moment of delivering the ball, the thrower must: stand facing the field of play have part of each foot on the touchline or on the ground outside the touchline throw the ball with both hands from behind and over the head from the point where it left the field of play It does not state when the ball must be released, simply that the ball must start behind the head and move over the head. That's it! If the ball is thrown from the side of the head then it's a bad throw. If the ball starts above the head then it's a bad throw. But if it starts behind the head and moves over the head it's fine.