Cardiff City V Spurs 1977

[MacAdder]

As with "deliberate handball" and "fair challenge"

"Ball to hand"

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Sayer was a smoker at school.

[splott parker]

"Ball to hand"

The one that bloody annoys all of us, the definite obstruction by the defender ‘shepherding’ a ball out for a goal kick with no intention of touching the ball, sticking his fat arse out into the attacker legitimately attempting to get to the ball. How can this not be obstruction when the defender is actively deliberately refusing to gain possession of the ball?

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

The one that bloody annoys all of us, the definite obstruction by the defender ‘shepherding’ a ball out for a goal kick with no intention of touching the ball, sticking his fat arse out into the attacker legitimately attempting to get to the ball. How can this not be obstruction when the defender is actively deliberately refusing to gain possession of the ball?

Almost any other part of the pitch it's deemed a free-kick, but allowed to happen with a defender "shepherding the ball"

[the other bob wilson]

The one that bloody annoys all of us, the definite obstruction by the defender ‘shepherding’ a ball out for a goal kick with no intention of touching the ball, sticking his fat arse out into the attacker legitimately attempting to get to the ball. How can this not be obstruction when the defender is actively deliberately refusing to gain possession of the ball?

You were watching Big Match Revisited episodes a while back weren’t you. One of them had a Man City v Chelsea game played in the snow on it and I can remember a defender trying that. The ref penalised him and then showed him a yellow card - some things really were better in the old days.