Quote Originally Posted by Premy View Post
Now I've had a chance to really think about it on the weekend there were 2 incidents involving keepers taking out a player I would love to hear someone from wallsends thoughts on both occasions.
1st incident late in the 1st half of reserve grade gardo's striker won a header against wallsends keeper but the ball went out for a goalkick but in the challenge the Wallsend keeper miss the ball and punched the striker in the head. My opinion it should of resulted in a penalty what surprised me was the ref called a goalkick so he acknowledged our striker won the ball but didn't acknowledge the late challenge from the keeper (keepers are like every other player and have to win the ball)
2nd incident I think it was Wallsends 2nd goal in 1st grade our keeper came out to challenge for a ball over the top of the defense the Wallsend striker beat him to ball and directed it onto the goal our keeper followed threw and took him out. My opinion our keeper was lucky to stay on the park should of been yellow at minimum.

End of the day keeper are a protected species
I can't comment on the reserve grade incident - missed it sorry.
The logic behind your first grade keeper was that both parties were airbourne and challenging for the ball. I agree with you that if a similar incident happened bewteen two field players, a foul would have been called and probably a caution given. I think that this was over-looked due to the fact that the situation resulted in a goal. If I were refereeing, I would have cautioned him - a red would not have been warranted though, he did have eyes for the ball.