PK???

[sockma]

Yes - was there a foul or not? Just like, “was that a handball?” “Was that a clean tackle?” Etc. But the analysis has gone well beyond what the ref might have seen and why the ref called what the ref called. Whether the kid found a teammate or cleared the ball or did something else is irrelevant to the original post and strikes me as odd and inappropriate for this forum. This is a kid who did not sign up to be publicly analyzed with respect to all the steps he should or should not have taken in the moment. The question was not - nor should it have been (unless the initial poster was the player himself) - “what could the GK have done to avoid a foul, prevented a goal and done the ‘proper’ thing to advance his development in the game?”

The board is nothing if not consistent, however, so I’m not surprised.

I agree with not criticizing a child publicly. Apologies for my part in it. I do think he did what he thought was the best in the moment and I'm sure he learned from it. That's all there is to one moment to any child's play.

 

[dk_b]

I agree with not criticizing a child publicly. Apologies for my part in it. I do think he did what he thought was the best in the moment and I'm sure he learned from it. That's all there is to one moment to any child's play.

To be clear, I don't think anyone on here has been mean-spirited about this. I actually think it is borne by everyone's shared enthusiasm for the sport. But I also think we need to pause and remind ourselves when the subject is a kid or the tangent changes the subject to a kid (I also think this kid is probably identifiable to someone on this board).