"The referee said to play on -- he said not to kick the ball out, " Sturridge revealed.
Friars (111) managed to kick the ball into the net while on the floor and Clarke (115) converted a penalty.
Adebayor said immediately after the match that he was trying to kick the ball, but Van Persie subsequently claimed his former team-mate had deliberately set out to injure him in a "malicious" manner.
"The boy put his whole body onto the ball and I was just trying to kick the ball and I think I kicked the ball and not the boy, " Hazard told the Chelsea website.
The home side responded in style when Tomas O'Leary took advantage of poor defending by Richard Fussell to cleverly kick the ball through for Howlett to gather and score in the corner, O'Gara missing the conversion.
However, Dublin's attempts to play out time then floundered as Fergal Doherty, Conleth Gilligan and both the Bradley brothers hit points to leave a kick of the ball between the teams with two minutes of normal time left.
The Black Cats failed to clear a free-kick and Behrami latched on to the loose ball to drive a shot from inside the box that deflected off Jones and into the net.
That looked to be it for the opening period with the clock touching 40 minutes, but Blues fly-half Sam Norton-Knight opted to kick upfield rather than send the ball into touch to end the first half.
It was another moment of madness for Arsenal's stand-in number one and worse was to come as the quick-thinking Micael passed the free-kick to Falcao, who calmly slotted the ball into the net.
First Holland goalkeeper Boy Waterman failed to deal with a free-kick and the ball fell to Liam Ridgewell, but his shot on the turn was deflected wide by John's outstretched leg.
The teenager fell to the ground as Hazard attempted to get the ball from him with the Blues midfielder then trying to kick it from under him, but instead he appeared to make contact with the youngster.
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Saracens seemed determined to kick the leather off the ball, and a lengthy period of aerial ping-pong drew a response of jeers, whistles and slow handclaps from their own supporters.
Dawson slipped attempting to clear a routine free-kick and the ball fell invitingly for Piquionne to slip the simplest of finishes under Gomes.
However, the Northern Ireland keeper tipped Pazzini's spot-kick on to the post and the ball was cleared.
When the boy fell on the ball, the player tried to kick it out from under him and was sent off for violent conduct.
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Johnson scored within four minutes of the kick-off, combining with Zamora to slot the ball past Sergey Narubin, much to the delight of the Putney End.
Sporting's creative players were too often given too much time on the ball and continued to threaten, with Veloso striking another free-kick and Izmailov striking wide after Everton wasted several chances to clear the ball.
Once again, they seemed to prefer to kick rather than run with the ball, while Ugo Monye, playing out of position at full-back, looked like a fish out of water until switched to the wing.
Charlie Mulgrew then had the chance to further his dead-ball reputation from a free-kick, but the Aberdeen full-back failed to test Cerny.
Kyle headed the ball into the box following a free-kick, Templeton got in front of his markers to stab the ball on and Elliot swept the ball home from 10 yards.
Gyan's early free kick hit the Egyptian wall and from the resulting corner, the ball fell back to the striker, who attempted an ambitious overhead kick, which sailed over Essam El Hadary's goal.
Hearts were stuggling to create chances, but a free-kick allowed Danny Grainger the opportunity to whip the ball into the box that just evaded the diving Marius Zaliukas 10 yards out after the Lithuanian defender broke clear of his marker.
The opening goal came when Ian Murray headed clear a Vladimir Weiss free kick and the ball fell to Bougherra on the right edge of the penalty area.
Over by the street-vendors, setting up their food stalls to tempt the hungry and exhausted, young men kick a ball about until the last of the light fades, scuffing up a cloud of dust with every footfall.
Whitehead capitalised on Smith's failure to clear the danger caused by Sykes' grubber kick, stretching out to get the touchdown inches from the dead-ball line.
But the Irish wilted in the closing minutes, and after Scelzo had forced his way over Bartolucci won the race for a kick ahead to touch down inches inside the dead-ball line.
The home side were appealing for a goal-kick after Tommy Smith looked to have run the ball out of play but it was George Elokobi's block that deflected the ball out.
The Croat ghosted into the six-yard box to meet Elano's whipped free-kick but the ball bounced up off his knee and flew over the bar.
Falkirk midfielder Scott Arfield tried to place the spot kick low to Trevor Carson's right but the keeper made a fine parry and the ball was cleared.
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