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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 2801083, member: 8215"] I don't think the "left the hands backwards and floated forwards" is to do with the wind. It's to do with the momentum of the ball, while held by the player, before passing. If a player is sprinting at, say, 20kph, then if they pass the ball perfectly sidewards, the ball will still be going 20kph forwards due to the momentum (though it'll begin to slow as the air friction takes away from the momentum). What the officials are saying is that this momentum is okay. If you were to strap a sensor on to the ball, for it to literally go flat or backwards in an absolute sense, then the pass will need to be thrown backwards at at least 20kph. It would be almost impossible to do, at least almost impossible to do without losing all of the advantage of the break. It would mean that if a team-mate was supporting you ten metres to your side, they'd need to be about 10 metres behind you as well in order to receive it from a legit backwards pass. [/QUOTE]

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