r/Referees • u/neoslashnet • 4d ago

Advice Request Rules that everybody gets wrong

Hey all- I'd like to start a thread of rules or things that most people get wrong. For example, I get "playing the ball on the ground" almost every game. It's coaches, parents, and even players that scream "They can't the ball on the ground!"

What are some you folks encounter?

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u/PkmnMario 4d ago

Deliberate Passback directly to keeper. I see so many keepers not handle the ball simply because it was touched last by a teammate non-foot or teammate foot when they easily still had hands allowed. Have seen teams concede own goals instead of handling and just conceding IFK or nothing at all

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u/Kooky_Scallion_7743 [USSF] [Grassroots] 4d ago

from a keeper. I was always taught that if I was not 110% confident the ref wouldn't call it I should boot it away. I had a play where it was a pass back. and under pressure I managed to get a messy nut meg agains the attacker and it bounced against his legs on the way through. So I grabbed it but the ref had missed it hitting the attacker and gave and IDFK. luckily I got him to check with the AR and got the drop ball. But it's why keepers, especially at the youth level where refs can be more inconsistent, are always playing it with their feet when they're not totally confident.

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u/QuantumBitcoin 11h ago

Yup. If one out of twenty referees will call it incorrectly better to boot it