(09-24-2013 06:00 PM)randaddyminer Wrote:  

(09-24-2013 05:35 AM)I45owl Wrote:  

(09-20-2013 07:26 PM)randaddyminer Wrote:  In defense of the center, the video seems to be from the mid to late 90s

I found the rest of the video, the kid stood in front of him again on the next throw! this time he covered his nuts with one hand and used the other to cover his face

I'm not sure that is any defense, though. It looks like the video is Canadian, so maybe that excuses it? Those referee jersies came out here in America in about 1996-1997, FWIW.

it looked cold, so that must have hurt that much more. I'm not sure when synthetic balls became popular, but it was surely before then, right?

the reason I say to his defense is because the law back then isn't the same as now.

Ok, I thought this had been part of the rules for a long long time. As it happens, I have a 1994 LOTG lying around... I probably have a 1978-1982 era LOTG somewheres as well... Going to Law 15 (XV in the olden days), it is striking how much simpler the LOTG used to be. It is also striking in how much it sucks to need glasses to read... I hate that. But, there is no mention of a 2 meter rule. Going a few pages deeper into the Addition Instructions Regarding the LOTG,

Quote:A throw in may not be taken from a distance of more than one meter outside the touch-line. Players are forbidden from standing directly in front of the footballer who is taking the throw-in so as to harass him.

I will note that I can't recall hearing the term footballer until I got Fox Soccer more than 10 years after this, but maybe it just didn't have the impact without the British accent.

So, I'll give you credit for noting that this law had changed, but I think the net effect is the same, and the referee should've intervened. Laws be damned, this is a case where it's inevitable that the player is going to strike out when someone stands in front of him... boys will be boys...

... looking a bit harder, my 1981 LOTG was in the same place (didn't recognize it because the printing quality was so different), and there was no such comment of any kind. So, you get full credit, but I think your timing was maybe a bit off.

Oh, and I found a mid 1980 Rice intramural rules sheet as well...