Listening to commentaries of televised football over the weekend, one of the commentators (I can't remember which one or which game) said of a penalty claim: "if you give that, we'll be getting eight or nine penalties a game" or a very similar sentiment.
It was the kind of foul that is ALWAYS given outside the penalty area, but very rarely inside.
It wasn't the foul on Dimitar Berbatov in the Manchester United v Liverpool game, but it was similar. A foul that would be given outside the box, but when it's given inside (and results in a penalty) the victims are up in arms.
The commentator obviously advocates a dual-rule system: one set of rules outside the penalty areas, and another set for inside. Most referees already play to this dual-rule system.
What annoys me is that we, as the spectators, are being denied goals (albeit penalties) in favour of ignoring the rules. I'll stop short of calling it cheating, but it does mean that the rule breakers are getting away with it.
Why, in a sport where the objective is supposed to be to score goals, do the rule makers and appliers do so much to prevent goals being scored?
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