Before parents enlist a posse to go after the refs...

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Security? Nice try. Troll.

Idiot. 2 Tournament officials in golf cart = security.

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Idiot. 2 Tournament officials in golf cart = security.

Nice backpedal moron.

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Nice backpedal moron.

Nice comeback!

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Saw offside call on a corner kick in HS this week.

The kids know the rule, pleaded their case but the ref was incredulous.
Offside sign made was the American football sign.

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Nice comeback!

liar liar pants on fire!

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The kids know the rule, pleaded their case but the ref was incredulous.
Offside sign made was the American football sign.

Breakout the pitchforks!

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Nice backpedal moron.

Maybe you should just start a thread about how incompetent tournament officials are and how they have ruined your daughter's chance at a D1 scholarship because game #2 was a 30 minute drive from game #1 field. And how poorly run Needham or Scorpiyuns tournimint wuz.

You are a total tool.

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The kids know the rule, pleaded their case but the ref was incredulous.
Offside sign made was the American football sign.

There is no signal for "offside" so that was a mistake on part of the official. But to say there cannot be offside following a CK is not correct. It depends what ensues after the first touch AFTER the CK is taken. Here is one way it can happen. CK taken, goalie punches ball out. Defense pulls up and away but ball is played back into the goal area by attacking team. Save, forward for attacking team is behind play as ball is played and then scores on rebound. No goal - offside. I have seen this rarely but it does happen.

Unless you are specific about exactly what call was made it is hard to tell if ref was in error. But your blanket description that the call was wrong may not be the case.

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Maybe you should just start a thread about how incompetent tournament officials are and how they have ruined your daughter's chance at a D1 scholarship because game #2 was a 30 minute drive from game #1 field. And how poorly run Needham or Scorpiyuns tournimint wuz.

You are a total tool.

Hitting the booze early today?

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Here is another example of parents going off on the ref, because they don't know the rules..

The team in question had a player make a PK because of a foul by the defense inside the 18. The ball hit the top crossbar, bounced off and the same player headed it in. No other players touched the ball. The goal did not count.

Some parents from that player's teams spent the next 30 mins swearing up and down the sideline. The parents seemed to think the ref called it no goal because the ref was saying the ball was dead, after it hit the goal. Which was not his reasoning. He tried to explain the rule to the parents but there was one guy that would not calm down. It was extremely unbecoming.

Perhaps clubs should issue parents a rule book when they sign their kids up for soccer.

What was his reasoning for calling no goal

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What was his reasoning for calling no goal

It has to touch another player or it cannot be a goal.

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There is no signal for "offside" so that was a mistake on part of the official. But to say there cannot be offside following a CK is not correct. It depends what ensues after the first touch AFTER the CK is taken. Here is one way it can happen. CK taken, goalie punches ball out. Defense pulls up and away but ball is played back into the goal area by attacking team. Save, forward for attacking team is behind play as ball is played and then scores on rebound. No goal - offside. I have seen this rarely but it does happen.

Unless you are specific about exactly what call was made it is hard to tell if ref was in error. But your blanket description that the call was wrong may not be the case.

almost..

There is no offside on a corner kick. There is offside as a result from a pass, which you describe above for the play above.

The signal for an offside offense is a single raised arm and whistle. The arm indicates an indirect kick and the arm is lowered when the ball is put in play and touched by another player.

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almost..

There is no offside on a corner kick. There is offside as a result from a pass, which you describe above for the play above.

The signal for an offside offense is a single raised arm and whistle. The arm indicates an indirect kick and the arm is lowered when the ball is put in play and touched by another player.

That is the signal for the restart and not for the offside. Officials are encouraged to keep gestures and signals to a minimum. Whistle stops the play, official faces direction of restart and raises arm for IDK.

There is no formal signal for offside.

As for the previous question. It is no goal because the player taking the PK (or any IDK or DK for that matter) cannot retouch the ball after first touch until another player touches the ball.

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What was his reasoning for calling no goal

He felt that it was important to aggravate as many parents on the sidelines as possible by actually properly enforcing the LOTG. Furthermore he had $2,000 riding on the game with a Vegas bookmaker.