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yep thats the one, the one Gary Crosby scored for Forest against I think Tony Coton playing for City was similar to Agger's...

It was rightly disallowed. The rule these days states that if a keeper is under control of the ball then no one can take it off him. Whether he has one hand or two does not matter. He clearly had the ball under control.

That rule should also make 'shielding that ball', a foul again then. Blocking an opponent from getting to the bal whilst making no attempt to play it has always been 'obstruction'. I have no idea when the rule changed but it gets on my t1ts!

If that's the case, how the fvck doesn't agger know the rules of football!?

He does, what he did was just on instict alone, one of these situations where your brain is thinking what the feck let me do this.

i think the rule is if the keeper has the ball under control in his hand(s) then you can't do what agger did. i think the keeper did have it under control. so the goal was rightly disallowed.

With the way they constantly change the rules or the wording of rules (like with offside when there had to be light between the attacking and defending players) and the confusion that often causes, it was probably worth a try!

I think it's a poor rule. If the keeper's stupid enough to place the ball sitting on one hand, then he should be fair game. Last night the incident showed initiative from Agger and carelessness from the keeper. Keepers get way too much protection in today's game, imo.

When a keeper goes to kick the ball out, the ball will only be in one hand as he winds up for it. Without that rule basically allowing an attacker to stand and flick the ball out of his hands everytime he tries to kick it out

Sure you could argue that even with the rule, the ball is out of the keeper's hands right before he kicks it, so what's to stop an attacker blocking it even with that rule? That's where sportsmanship comes into it, but I think the keeper should have to have 2 hands on the ball without attackers being able to make contact with it. IMO, the keeper was careless with it and deserved to be punished. If that was the Liverpool keeper and it was disallowed, I'd feel incredibly relieved and lucky.