Craig Burley

If the ball is still, because you can't play a moving ball, certainly when you're taking a free kick or anything like that.

If that ball is still and the goalkeeper plays it, it has to be in play.

But we saw this last year with Arsenal.

Was it last year or the year before?

I can't remember.

Sorry, Frank.

I think it's even easier than that.

You make a law in the game that says the first initiation of contact of the ball in the six-yard box is the ball back in play.

And that's it.

You just need to change the way the law is written and say the first person to play a non-moving ball in the six-yard box deems the ball in play.

And that there then would have been a penalty kick as soon as he puts his hand on it.

And Hansi Fleck also said ascending off.

How do you decide as a ref that the ball's not in play?

Yeah.

That's like having a free kick somewhere outside the penalty box and you go up to it, the ball's not moving and you tap it five yards to your teammate and it gets intercepted.

You say, well, that ball wasn't in play.

The ball has to be in play as soon as...

as soon as the goalkeeper plays it from a non-moving ball, that is in play.

And it's not difficult to rewrite that rule.

If you want to have this rule where the goalkeeper wants to pass it to the centre-backs and the forwards are outside the box, but then they can initiate it once that touch is taken.