From: jrobert@lab1.smcm.edu (Jess Roberts)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.soccer
Subject: Re: CALLING KEEPERS
Keywords: keeper!
Date: 23 Nov 92 20:05:21 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.003952.10571@newsgate.sps.mot.com> altizer@figaro  
(Robert Altizer) writes:
> In article 17899@syma.sussex.ac.uk, janm@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Jan Metzger)  
writes:
> >In the league I play in there is a ref. who is constantly is awarding  
indirect
> >free kicks against me for shouting "keeper's" to loudly.(I'm a  
GOALKEEPER)
> >He says it puts the strikers off and is against the rules !  He claims  
I
> >should call for the ball but not to loudly, I supposedly call for it to
> >aggresively.  Well what I am I supposed to do when I'm in the middle of  
3
> >strikers, two defenders and everybody wants that ball? Say "please  
could I
> >have that ball".  I do admit that I make my call loudly but I don't  
scream.
> >
> >Is there some rule that he can apply against me in such a case ?
> 
> If you call out to an opponent just to distract him, then you are guilty  
of 
> ungentlemanly conduct and should be cautioned.  If you are calling to  
your
> teammates, then it's part of the game and there's no infraction.  The  
ref
> awarding the IFK against you (presumably for dangerous play??) should be  
able
> to tell the difference, but seems to have made up his own interpretation  
of
> Law XII (Fouls and Misconduct).
> 
> >In the following case with the same ref. I'm quite sure that there is  
no such
> >rule but if somebody can prove me wrong I'll find it every interesting:
> >
> >The ball is out of play, the other team is going to take a corner,  
somebody is
> >just going to fetch the ball.  I start yelling encouragement and  
instructions
> >to my defense in German.  The league I play in is in the south of  
England.  I
> >got a yellow card and the club the subsiquent fine.  (... more  
deleted...)
> 
> Not only are the ref's knickers too tight, he's got a bad case of  
Xenophobia!
> Here in Arizona I regularly referee games between Spanish speaking  
teams, as
> you might expect.  But I also get Farsi (Iran), Serbian, Croatian,  
German, 
> Russian, Laotian, Korean, Italian, Scottish, and other bizarre dialects.   
He's
> obviously using his own bigoted view of the game, as FIFA (a French  
acronymmm)
> has nothing to say about what language shall be used.  What a git!
> 
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Hey Robert...
I just finished being a college keeper (4 years) and never had that  
problem.  However, in club ball in Virginia, I got cautioned for that very  
offense.  Try yelling "Robert's ball" or some variant thereof.  If that  
doesn't help, appeal to that black-wearing bastard's officials  
association...ever go to Joe Machnik's?  Just wondering...

                                 Jess Roberts  jrobert@oyster.smcm.edu
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