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May 2013
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Precedent set in Africa Cup 24/1/2015 Ivory Coast vs Mali Group D
"It would ... be an infraction if a player was to use a trick to pass the ball to their goalkeeper, such as kicking the ball up and then using their head. If a player were to use such a trick then he must be issued a caution.[3]

The Laws of football as referenced do nearly state this. More precisely they say 'use a deliberate trick to circumvent the Law.' But when should the referee judge a back-pass with the head to be a 'trick?' This is not a question of deceit, I'm sure. Is it the case that any 'skill' by the player that allows him to control the ball in such a fashion, so that he can head it back to the keeper, be adjudged a 'trick' under this provision? The Ivory Coast defender on that occasion, Eric Bailly, touched the ball twice with his legs before heading it to the keeper, Sylvain Gbohouo. I've no idea whether and at what point these skills became a willful act to effect a headed back-pass in deliberate circumvention of the back-pass law, and I dare say neither did the player. I've no idea whether it matters, anyway.

The referee did penalise the Ivory Coast. As I read it, i) the offence is the 'trick,' i.e. against the letter and spirit of Law 12, not the handling that follows, ii) the defender gets booked (mandated in the Law, p123), and iii) the free kick should be from the position of the defender, not the goalkeeper. In fact I think neither ii) nor iii) happened that day. But was the referee right to blow at all? None of the commentators and pundits I heard seemed to think so. I guess that's not unusual. The Laws of Association Football is the most influential book no-one has read. Atconsul (talk) 14:16, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

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May 2024
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 * Hi. Thanks.
 * Are you using some tool to assess plagiarism or is this a human discovery on your part?
 * Perhaps you can guide me here. I did attempt to precis the article, in fact I reduced it closer to the words that Crozier actually used in his witness statement to the public inquiry.
 * For preference I would type (condensed) verbatim what he says to the inquiry, which is a matter of public record (currently only on video stream I think) but I understand this also seems to cause some problems to WP, transcripted or not.
 * If this were the BBC or another news source it would simply quote the secondary source in quotation marks as a short report of the cited source's content but again this seems a problem for WP in this context. The BBC and the Guardian can also report the inquiry directly of course.
 * There must be a right way of getting this information into the article. it is important to anyone researching this subject.
 * Hope you can suggest a direction. Thanks and kind regards, Atconsul (talk) 14:40, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
 * The two edits were listed at CopyPatrol, where I typically spend most of my time on Wikipedia. I decided that only minimal paraphrasing/rewording had taken place, so the content had to come out. Presenting any part of the material as though it were written by a Wikipedia editor is not appropriate; to do so is a violation of our copyright policy. The Guardian published this as his witness statement: "I do not recall any involvement in or knowledge of the oversight of the investigations and prosecutions brought by Post Office Ltd against subpostmasters, either for theft, fraud and false accounting for alleged shortfalls in branch accounts for the recovery of such alleged shortfalls through the use of civil proceedings." The remainder of the overlap was actually parts of the questions asked by Counsel to the inquiry Jason Beer KC. I suggest adding the exact quotation from the witness statement, and either paraphrasing or omitting Beer's questions, or putting them in as quotes as well.  — Diannaa (talk) 15:43, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much for your prompt reply. I have been trying to figure out the thin ground between the copyright of the secondary sources and an indisputable report of what was said. These are powerful living people in this drama and I don't wish to tweak anyone's tail unnecessarily. Are you saying that I can just avoid the problem by attributing the Guardian as I had and using quotation marks to make clear these words are verbatim from that secondary source, thus avoid presenting the material as though it were written by an WP editor? I didn't think this avoided the copyright question. Great if it's that simple and I'll offer accordingly, hoping it doesn't show up again on your desk.
 * I've had a good try at reading all the WP advice on offer. I'd have preferred to cite the primary source, but folk have generally shied away from that here. I don't fully understand why: it reads as if editors tend to over-interpret WP:PRIMARY in respect of WP:BLP but I don't read that any of that should be a block to verifying the words of a person that are a matter of public record.
 * Anyway thanks again and kind regards, Atconsul (talk) 11:26, 30 May 2024 (UTC)