Blocking at set plays

[Ravshoutsatbeck]

With more teams employing set piece specialists it is more and more common for there to be blocking runs. (See city goal today - and every QPR corner on Saturday)

It's officially illegal to intentionally impede the progress of an opposition player. But only if you move to do it I think.

Think the powers that be need to come out one way or the other. Either you can run picks like Basketball or you can't.

 

[Priv]

The city goal wasn’t a block the Liverpool defender was pulling him back by his arm.

 

[festa5]

Really difficult to enforce and to be fair it's always gone on, probably just a lot more tactical now.

For every time it's obvious, there'll be times where it's not clear if it's an intentional block or not.

As it is, is probably the best its going to get. Unless people are up for those idiots in the VAR room studying the footage of every corner looking for the slightest infringement.

 

[BeanBeany]

You see shocking examples every week of holding, fouling etc never gets even looked at never mind given

 

[Will_Graham]

The precision of that corner by De Bruyne was ridiculous. It was like a snooker trick shot

 

[Ravshoutsatbeck]

Another one from Ben Gibson there in the Norwich/Leicester game.

I think they really need to clarify if this is acceptable or not.

 

[Low_Key]

He physically moved him out of the way there. Not a block

 

[viv_andersons_nana]

Another one from Ben Gibson there in the Norwich/Leicester game.

I think they really need to clarify if this is acceptable or not.

I think Mike Dean opened up a can of worms, accidentally, on Sky recently when Neville asked him why a block wasn’t given as a foul and he said because the player who’d been blocked wasn’t going to get on the end of the cross. To me that gives defenders licence to do whatever they like. A foul is a foul.

 

[Support Your Local Team]

I think Mike Dean opened up a can of worms, accidentally, on Sky recently when Neville asked him why a block wasn’t given as a foul and he said because the player who’d been blocked wasn’t going to get on the end of the cross. To me that gives defenders licence to do whatever they like. A foul is a foul.

It won't affect anything as it won't be an official line that the refs take and stick to. My experience now is that they just come up with any justification they can to try and protect the decision that was made made. It's all carnage and their desperation to argue for/defend their decisions just makes it worse and more muddied.

 

[Tryasize10]

Been going on for years this, I remember that pr*ck Taylor doing it to us years ago at Sid James park

 

[viv_andersons_nana]

It won't affect anything as it won't be an official line that the refs take and stick to. My experience now is that they just come up with any justification they can to try and protect the decision that was made made. It's all carnage and their desperation to argue for/defend their decisions just makes it worse and more muddied.

Yeah what’s that one Dean came up with, the ‘drop zone’ and how this ‘drop zone’ meant the referee was correct not to blow for a foul when someone’s shirt was being torn off their back.

The ‘drop zone’ FFS.