Fouled players falling and grabbing the ball


Depends if they were actually fouled. If they were fouled beforehand then no.

I was tripped up in the office the other day and immediately launched myself on the printer, it meant someone else had to change the ink cartridge and get the brews in.
 
You have to play to the whistle. Until the whistle is blown the ball is still in play. How many fouls do refs not blow for? For all a fouled player knows the ref might have seen and advantage and be intending to wave play on. Players don't have the power to decide when the ball is in or out of play and if they intefere with the ball before the ref blows to indicate that the game has stopped they should be penalised.

I remember Phil Gray being penalised for hand ball when he was a yard from the bye line with a high ball passing over his head and clearly heading out of play. Gray for some reason jumped and caught the ball with high outstretched hands before it could travel the remaining foot or so and cross the line. Unfortunately for him no whistle had yet been blown or flag raised.

If Gray had simply left the ball there was absolutely no question that it would have gone over his head and out of play & he would have been awarded a throw in. However because he had stopped what seemed inevitable all that didn't matter. ( I recall that at the time a bloke behind me had a very special way of pointing out to Gray how he had made a rather silly error.)

For his pains Gray got a yellow card and the opposition got a free kick and under the circumstances that was really the only decision that the ref could have made. When a player is brought down ball handling before a foul is awarded is harder to spot because there is often only a split second between the player grabbing the ball and the ref blowing for the foul. Gray's mistake was more apparent but the principal of only the ref being able to deteramin when the ball is our of play is the same.
 

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