Help needed please. In added time two players went up for the ball in the United penalty area and suffered head injuries and the ball had been cleared and was in Burnley's possession 25 yards out when play was halted. The players were treated and quickly back on their feet, however, play was restarted with a drop ball for the United keeper. Have they changed this since the start of the season and I missed it because play should have restarted with a drop ball to a Burnley player if the interpretation is stilll the same.
After 74 years this game gets more puzzling by the day and it used to be so simple.
Yes because the injuries happened in the penalty area and anything that happens within the Pa is now a dropped ball to the defending keeper.
That's not what Law 8 says. It only goes to the keeper if play was stopped in the penalty area or if the last touch (by either side) was in the penalty area. I didn't see this but if a Burnley player had touched the ball before play was stopped it should have gone to them. It's possible of course that the whistle was blown before a Burnley player actually touched the ball in which case the Referee was correct.
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