Quote Originally Posted by Ash View Post
Oh yes, we were very fortunate that the ref applied the laws of the game for our goal. Whether that should be the law is another matter. Morally, the goal shouldn't have stood because Ox ****ed it up by kicking Kos's foot so that the ball is going out of the stadium until it hits Kos's hand. There should be something about gaining an advantage in there, to balance the intent bit and to go with the unnatural position bit.
But where do you draw the line with gaining an advantage?

In the first of those gifs, the ball would have gone straight to one of our players. In the 2nd, you can't really tell, but it may have been a pass or it may have been him turning past the defender. Either way, we'd have been in a good position.

I can see the argument for not allowing a goal to be scored with the hand/arm, but what if the accidental hand ball clearly stops an obvious goal scoring opportunity?