On 4/4/07, Chris Mohr <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Wayne Pav wrote:
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> One particular school has picked
> up a local college fan trick on that every free kick by the opposing team
> the group will shout out youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu… as the run up occurs, then
> punctuate it with SUCK as the ball is struck. Unacceptable?
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> RELATED QUESTION (both H.S. and FIFA):
>
> If in the circumstances I judged that the timing/loudness/particular
> abusiveness of the crowd chant had interfered with the player's ability to
> make a sound, accurate kick on the ball - could I treat this as
> "interference from an outside agent"? If so, would the correct restart be:
> 1) re-take of the free kick (treating it as if interference occurred before
> free kick was taken); or 2) drop ball?
>
> Granted, depending on the level of the game, it might take e.g. a truly
> EXTREME disruption to justify a re-take at the highest, professional levels
> of play from anything the crowd did, short of hurling dangerous objects at
> the kicker. But I'm addressing more the context of youth soccer and high
> school soccer, where the expected standards of sporting behavior is higher
> than that, at least in principle.
>
> Chris Mohr
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