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Originally Posted by GirlySports
I doubt there's any press about it in the UK. Nobody cares about women's football over there.
We barely care about it here. We care about Canada, not necessarily soccer.
I think the 6 second rule is never called because professional goalies know it and release the ball quickly once it's in their hands. You often see men keepers throw the ball onto the ground or outside of their box and then kick it. It's not even an issue.
What's McLeod bouncing the ball for?
The handball call was bogus. There were no outstretched arms.
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I have seen men goalies hang on to it way longer giving their team time to get into position. At worst they get a warning from the ref and in extreme cases a yellow card. I have never seen a free kick given from that position due to it and read that it is basically never called anything higher than U10. Most football fans and experts seem to agree, well online anyway. Hell the American players were just as perplexed as to what was going on as the rest of us but of course will take it, who wouldn't. When the players, coaches, announcers, and fans have no idea what the hell is going on you know something is wrong.
Does it really matter who cares about it at what point? In the end few people will remember the results of any Olympics with a few exceptions. It is always in the here and now and right now I think the Canadian women's football team and fans alike have the right to be pissed off.
We already have enough sports marred by subjective judging and adding suspect refing just makes things worse. The small stuff I have no issue with, those happen all the time, but to make 2 such terrible calls within a minute resulting in a goal in a game where 3 goals is a very high scoring event is a monumental failure. There is a reason refs in the NHL put away the whistles during the playoffs. They don't want to be the one to make such a mistake. Even if it was called in the round robin play it would be passed over as a bad mistake but this was potentially a gold medal decision.