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In basketball professional fouls (preventing the act of scoring) can result as free throws. In rugby league and union the same can result as penalty tries.
These are just two examples of where professional fouls can impact your team on the scoreboard.
Although in football for a professional foul, preventing the act of scoring to certainly cause impact on the score sheet, it must be committed in the penalty area.
Now, I’m not saying that free kicks are unable to be scored from outside the penalty area, but it is much more likely that a goal will be scored from a penalty than from a free kick, and that is common knowledge.
Watching Saturday night’s Jets-Wanderers clash, a thought sprung to myself and a mate’s mind after Ante Covic, the Wanderers goalkeeper, sprinted out of his penalty area to stop Adam Taggart, the Jet’s striker, who was about to reach the penalty area and go one-on-one with Covic.
Covic knocked him to ground, outside the area. Now, by this stage full time had been blown, so Covic was spared his blushes and a red card.
I thought….this happens too much in a regular game – players committing professional fouls late in games and although getting red carded, in all likeliness the ensuing free kick will not be scored, and due to the amount of time left in the game the result will remain in most cases unaffected.
However, if instead of a professional foul, (preventing the act of scoring a goal) is affected outside the box, a penalty should be given to the attacking team.
This will put a seed of doubt in players’ minds when they want to commit a professional foul.
Referees must be strict with the rule though so if it happens on half-way and the last defender concedes the professional with a poor challenge, the red card should be given and a penalty should be awarded.
This will allow more excitement in world soccer as fewer players will want to have one less player, and give a likely goal away to the opposition.
If the penalty is missed well so be it, but at least the seed is sewn into player’s minds that they just can’t get away with reckless last-man challenges scotch free.
What are your thoughts Roarers?
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