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Obstruction

Exiled_Addick
Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,233
edited August 2010 in Other Football and Sports
Anyone noticed how this has completely gone out of the game? Well... it's still in it because I've just seen Agger do it to Adam Johnson but you just don't see indirect free kicks given for it anymore do you?

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  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,160
    Uncanny!
    Just had the same conversation about the same incident with my son.
    Am I right in saying it used to be the only reason for an indirect free kick in the box?
    Used to be really common didn't it
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,968
    yep, thesedays refs just give a foul and a free kik rather than an indirect one
  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,233
    It certainly wasn't rare, but it's basically extinct now. Weird really as as far as I know, it's still in the rules.
  • randy andy
    randy andy Posts: 5,463
    What annoys me is the number of penalties given for obstruction, and also the fact that refs seem to deem a winger running directly into a defender a foul and a yellow card when the rules are very clear, the defender is under no obligation to simply get out of the attackers way, they just aren't allowed to move to block them off.

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