Argentines use 'free-kick' spray

[GrandOldTeam]

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Argentines use 'free-kick' spray

The Argentine Football Association is to introduce an aerosol spray to stop defenders creeping closer to the ball during a free-kick.
From next year, referees will use the spray in first division matches.
Referees will mark a temporary white line 9.15 metres (10 yards) from the ball, which defenders cannot cross. The spray will disappear 30 seconds later.
Pablo Silva, who invented the spray, got the idea when he failed to score with a free-kick at an amateur match.
"In the 88th minute, we were losing 1-0 and won a free-kick on the edge of the area. When I took the kick, the wall was three metres away," he told Reuters earlier this year.
"The referee didn't book anyone and didn't do anything," he said.
"We lost the game, and driving home later, with a mixture of anger and bitterness, I thought that we must invent something to stop this."
The spray has been given a trial in second division matches and a similar spray has been used in some competitions in Brazil.

Not a bad idea that.

 

[chicoazul]

I seen that.

I'd well mace someone.

 

[Whitebootman]

A white line that will disappear after 30 seconds. Robbie Fowler holds the patent on that I believe.

 

[Goat]

I seen that.

I'd well mace someone.

Yes i also saw it, i mis-read it at first, i did indeed think it was something like mace that the ref sprayed by the ball, like an invisible field that cant be breached, but then i realised it was just paint on the ground.


It would be well cool if somebody encroached and the ref just dived at them with pepper spray, give the feckers something to roll around for.

 

[chicoazul]

A white line that will disappear after 30 seconds. Robbie Fowler holds the patent on that I believe.

Superb, I say, superb.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

the chinese swear by this stuff.

confuses the feck out of the goalie, you spray it on the ball and it confuses the [Poor language removed] out of the keeper. first he never knows when the ball will come, and 2nd he knows its gonna be a hard one.

 

[TsarDiniyar]

A white line that will disappear after 30 seconds. Robbie Fowler holds the patent on that I believe.

Must spread rep blah blah

 

[zero]

Will never be allowed over here, anything that will equal the playing field and give the Sky four less of an advantage will never be allowed.

Great idea though.

 

[Cahill's Metatarsal]

I've heard about that before, must have been when they 1st started trialling it to see if it worked, doesn't sound like a bad idea