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<blockquote data-quote="Cruz_del_Sur" data-source="post: 1223252" data-attributes="member: 55747">What you just stated applies to 99% of the cases, but not to this one. The definition is crystal clear and it&#039;s virtually what you said. &quot;When a player loses possession of the ball and it goes forward, or when a player hits the ball forward with the hand or arm, or when the ball hits the hand or arm and goes forward, and the ball touches the ground or another player before the original player can catch it. &quot;The problem in this case was that three officials either didn&#039;t understand one of the simplest definitions in the laws OR performed some of the greatest interpretative gymnastics to twist such definition from what the law statea into what they thought the law ought to state. And even, that would be okish if their interpretation didnt explicitly violate the letter of the law. But they had to go there... They just had to. I watched the game at the pub: we all spotted this atm and it took the ref selector 30 seconds to explain why that wasn&#039;t a knock on in plain Spanish. The laws don&#039;t help, granted, but in this particular case the problem lied elsewhere.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cruz_del_Sur, post: 1223252, member: 55747"] What you just stated applies to 99% of the cases, but not to this one. The definition is crystal clear and it's virtually what you said. "When a player loses possession of the ball and it goes forward, or when a player hits the ball forward with the hand or arm, or when the ball hits the hand or arm and goes forward, and the ball touches the ground or another player before the original player can catch it. " The problem in this case was that three officials either didn't understand one of the simplest definitions in the laws OR performed some of the greatest interpretative gymnastics to twist such definition from what the law statea into what they thought the law ought to state. And even, that would be okish if their interpretation didnt explicitly violate the letter of the law. But they had to go there... They just had to. I watched the game at the pub: we all spotted this atm and it took the ref selector 30 seconds to explain why that wasn't a knock on in plain Spanish. The laws don't help, granted, but in this particular case the problem lied elsewhere. [/QUOTE]

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