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Question about a rule in Football

  • 03-01-2015 3:42pm
    #1
    deadybai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,474 ✭✭✭


    Don't play much football and come from a hurling area so this might sound like a stupid question.

    In football when a ball is rolling towards you on the ground are you allowed to pick it straight of the ground? I have seen a few matches where it looks like people do this but it could be just hobbling along the surface. I would have thought that you still raise it with your foot. Or a the refs lenient on this? It seems that it is definitely picked straight up the faster the ball is rolling.


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  • #2
    nice_guy80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,722 ✭✭✭nice_guy80


    deadybai wrote: »
    Don't play much football and come from a hurling area so this might sound like a stupid question.

    In football when a ball is rolling towards you on the ground are you allowed to pick it straight of the ground? I have seen a few matches where it looks like people do this but it could be just hobbling along the surface. I would have thought that you still raise it with your foot. Or a the refs lenient on this? It seems that it is definitely picked straight up the faster the ball is rolling.

    yep.
    you are meant to put your toe to it.
    refs ignore it a lot of the time due to a slight bounce on the ball.


  • #3
    Boom__Boom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,115 ✭✭✭Boom__Boom


    nice_guy80 wrote: »
    yep.
    you are meant to put your toe to it.
    refs ignore it a lot of the time due to a slight bounce on the ball.

    Also depends on your gender - you can pick it directly off the ground in ladies football.


  • #4
    Nidgeweasel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,621 ✭✭✭Nidgeweasel


    Boom__Boom wrote: »
    Also depends on your gender - you can pick it directly off the ground in ladies football.

    Or if your backs to the ref!


  • #5
    Dirty Dingus McGee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,631 ✭✭✭Dirty Dingus McGee


    You have to put your toe under the ball.

    Some ginnet coaches years ago (I'm sure they existed in every club) seemed to suggest to the players they were coaching that you could pick up a rolling ball straight form the ground and resulted in buckets of young lads foolishly thinking it was within the rules to do so.


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