Quote whiston_warrior="whiston_warrior"Amendment - Section 11 – Law 6: Verbal instructions to resolve doubt.
If any doubt arises as to a tackle, the Referee should give a verbal instruction to ‘play on’ or shout ‘held’ as the case may be. If the referee is of the opinion that the player in possession could not hear the ‘held’ call before passing or running off with the ball he should instruct the player to play the ball at the point where the player was when ‘held’ was called unless it occurs after the fifth play the ball in which case a handover will apply.'"
How does that apply to this scenario? Here we go at another example of defending the indefensible.
Have a look at the notes 2 (c) in S.11. It's a PDF file so couldn't be bothered typing that out
