Restarting after a goal...

I was reffing my lad’s team today and a series of events caused a lot of controversy.

We were 4-2 up with 10 minutes left. The opposition scored, for the ball out of the net and raced back to restart. They got underway and with 2/3 minutes left, equalised. Again they got the ball and legged it back. They need a win to go top. In the last minute, they snatched a winner and all ran off the pitch and were some 10 yards off the pitch for about a minute.

My goalie kicked the ball back and then one player said “let’s kick off”. The opposition had 2 or 3 players and the goalie on the pitch. The rest were still going crazy off the pitch.

I had a flash back to France ‘98 and Darren Anderton’s last ditch tackle against Argentina. I let them kick off. The opposition coaches were fine with it but some of the parents weren’t happy.

Have I acted within the laws of the game by allowing the game to be restarted?
You're Peter Walton & I claim my £5.
 
Sounds like you should just have waited for them to get back on the pitch, added on any time wasted (at your discretion...) and booked the lot of them for leaving the field of play without permission.

It's nice for kids to celebrate goals together, but they can do that on the pitch - if they deliberately went off the pitch, they were taking the piss.
 
I don’t understand the problem.
A team cannot waste time if the ref adds on all the time lost by the toss pots celebrating.

In the last World Cup several teams, including England, had a policy of leaving 1 player in the opposition half when celebrating a goal to prevent a restart.
 

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