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Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 18th May 2025, 3:25 PM

I've noticed, for a number of years, how when a corner kick is taken, the ball has been placed by the corner taker, very much on the edge of the quadrant, and I noticed an extreme version of this in the Cup Final on Saturday, when the MC player taking the corner (about 5 to minutes into the game) placed the ball clearly outside of the quadrant!

So, what is the actual rule on this?!?

I quote from the IFAB rule on this, which seems to me to be extraordinary! And contradictory.............

"When a corner kick is taken, the ball must be on or overhanging the arc or fully inside the corner area."

Or overhanging the arc?!?!?! Then what is the point of the quadrant, is it only a guide, on how much the can player take the piss.

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Well it is as the guidance says. If any part of the ball is overhanging the arc then it's legit. If none of the ball is overhanging the arc then it's not legit.

In the same way as the whole of the ball has to be over the line for a goal to be scored or for it to be out of play, if the whole of the ball is outside the corner quadrant, then it is not correctly placed. In the scoring of a goal or the ball being out of play, the ball can, for example, bounce over the line but the whole of the ball may not have crossed it. The same principle applies here.

So that corner kick in Saturday's FA Cup by an MC player was illegal as the ball was well out of the quadrant - surely something the linesman should have flagged.

Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 18th May 2025, 3:25 PM

I've noticed, for a number of years, how when a corner kick is taken, the ball has been placed by the corner taker, very much on the edge of the quadrant, and I noticed an extreme version of this in the Cup Final on Saturday, when the MC player taking the corner (about 5 to minutes into the game) placed the ball clearly outside of the quadrant!

So, what is the actual rule on this?!?

I quote from the IFAB rule on this, which seems to me to be extraordinary! And contradictory.............

"When a corner kick is taken, the ball must be on or overhanging the arc or fully inside the corner area."

Or overhanging the arc?!?!?! Then what is the point of the quadrant, is it only a guide, on how much the can player take the piss.

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It used to have to be wholly within the quadrant but everyone took the piss so they changed the law.

Quote: Chappers @ 20th May 2025, 3:13 PM

It used to have to be wholly within the quadrant but everyone took the piss so they changed the law.

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Then they need to revert to its original intention and penalise anyone taking the piss, which is certainly what they are doing now.

IF NOT, then do away with it altogether, letting players set the ball wherever they fancy

As well as any defending kick in the penalty area having to be played out (the one that really angers me) and place kicks (kick off) having to go forwards by the circumference of the ball.

It's annoying because there seems to be so little gained by it

And the other one for me, is when they raise one arm as they are about to take a free kick or corner - what the f**k is that all about, as it is always the same gesture, which seems to mean nothing. If I was in the penalty area waiting for that delivery I would be thinking "So what? What the f**k am I supposed to make of that? Should I wave back?"

Tottenham 1 Man Utd 0

Watching the game last night reminded me of the last time Spurs won a trophy (well, almost) in 1961 in the days when my father was a regular on the White Hart Lane terraces (and started taking me three years later). A record we had at home (and I still possess) celebrating the winning of the double in 1961, and possibly the first ever football record released in honour of a particular team, a precursor of the likes of World Cup Willie, Blue is the Colour and Back Home was Tip Top Tottenham Hotspur by the Tottenhamites with the "b" side of Danny Boy (in celebration of Danny Blanchflower):

Congrats to Spurs
Europa league cup winners
The only surpise is that they aren't meeting Arsenal in the Super cup ( what with them being the best team in Europe and all )

And Ange winning a Trophy in his second season was a brilliant mic drop moment
( My wifes name is Ange and she also has experience of getting her hands on a major trophy, )

Quote: Steve Sunshine @ 23rd May 2025, 1:31 AM

Congrats to Spurs
Europa league cup winners
The only surpise is that they aren't meeting Arsenal in the Super cup ( what with them being the best team in Europe and all )

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Sorry. Just pissed myself laughing.