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Tomlaw
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Re: Backpasses
The obvious difference is that the ball was clearly going into the goal. The only way that Simon Mignolet could stop the goal was by deliberately breaking the rules and conceding a free kick. You could equate it with tugging back an attacker as he is clean through. You're denying a goal by deliberately infringing the rules, taking a free kick to deny a goal.
In my view it is obviously unsporting behaviour - although of course almost everybody would do it.
In most cases with back passes the offending goalkeeper either forgets in the heat of the moment, or believes that the "pass" wasn't a pass at all.
I didn't think it merited a card either. I have never seen a goalkeeper carded for a back pass that was 10 yards away, so whats the difference from 40 yards? Technically it's the same thing.
The obvious difference is that the ball was clearly going into the goal. The only way that Simon Mignolet could stop the goal was by deliberately breaking the rules and conceding a free kick. You could equate it with tugging back an attacker as he is clean through. You're denying a goal by deliberately infringing the rules, taking a free kick to deny a goal.
In my view it is obviously unsporting behaviour - although of course almost everybody would do it.
In most cases with back passes the offending goalkeeper either forgets in the heat of the moment, or believes that the "pass" wasn't a pass at all.
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