Goalkeeper Using Ball As Weapon?

[JackRoo]

Goalkeeper with ball in hands inside the box, kicks it out, ball strikes opposition player outside of the box. Referee call violent conduct, red cards the keeper, and awards a penalty. On the card writes "using ball as weapon". Thoughts?

[youreds15]

Surely not??? what age group?

[Nova]

Goalkeeper with ball in hands inside the box, kicks it out, ball strikes opposition player outside of the box. Referee call violent conduct, red cards the keeper, and awards a penalty. On the card writes "using ball as weapon". Thoughts?

The way you wrote it sounds like he was hard done by!
But there's always two sides to a story and multiple opinions from other witnesses, so this goes into the "cool story bro" folder for me :wink:
End of the day, how good is football!!

[johnydep]

Goalkeeper with ball in hands inside the box, kicks it out, ball strikes opposition player outside of the box. Referee call violent conduct, red cards the keeper, and awards a penalty. On the card writes "using ball as weapon". Thoughts?

The way you wrote it sounds like he was hard done by!

But there's always two sides to a story and multiple opinions from other witnesses, so this goes into the "cool story bro" folder for me :wink:

End of the day, how good is football!!

+1

[God is an Englishman]

If you deliberately kick the ball at someone in a violent manner then it is a red card. Roy Keane was sent off v Newcastle for throwing a ball at someone and I remember a Millwall player Adrian Serioux having the same for deliberately throwing the ball at someone when taking a throw in.

The restart confuses me though, trying to think whether the foul would be where the ball was kicked or where it hit the person. I guess it's the act that is the foul not the contact itself, so I'm thinking a penalty could be correct.

One of those incidents though that you would have to see to decide whether it was a deliberate act or not.

[rossonero]

if keeper was trying to "BOMB" it long then yes he's using it as a weapon