In association football, you are one goal ahead moving into injury time and under a lot of pressure, when your team gets hold of the ball you all run towards it and surround it so that no opponents can get through the forest of legs to access the ball. The opponents realise what you are up to and try to get you to move by tickling your players. What is the correct referee's response?
I've noticed that there appears to be nothing wrong with dribbling the ball over to the corner flag and trying to keep it there out of the opponent's reach, so I can't see why extending this ball protection would fall foul of the rules. Equally, tickling seems an underused tactic.
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Am watching the end of the Liverpool West Ham game and it looks like Liverpool haven't taken your tactic on board, the fools. So we don't get to find out what happens if West ham tickle them. My guess is that tickling would be deemed to be a foul, so the team in the lead could just take the free kick and surround the ball again.
I would say that only one player can possess the ball. The other nine (10 if you're lunatic) would therefore be obstructing the defending team and a foul would be committeed.
Tickling is not done by gentlemen so also not allowed. Would be an interesting tatic in ladies football though!
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