"It's total and utter crap!" 💩 Should the law be disallowed or a retake? 🤔

@alanshearer The offside rule was originally meant to stop strikers from goal-hanging, not to scrutinise toenail placements with a microscope. But here we are, splitting hairs because the game’s evolved, and players—unlucky or not—just have to get on with it. Same goes for the double-touch rule. It’s there to prevent "unfair" advantages, not to reward technical slip-ups. Penalties already favour the taker massively (78% conversion rate), so why stack the odds even further? Allowing a retake for a kicker’s mistake would shift the balance even more unfairly against goalkeepers. Yeah, sometimes football can be cruel—but that’s part of what makes it the beautiful game.

When a goalkeeper comes off his line for a penalty It's retaken not disallowed. Same should happen in this scenario take it again.

Had Real Madrid scored a goal like this and got through The outrage would have been the complete opposite

I think the law should be similar to that of a goalkeeper stepping off the line. If the player scores, there should be a retake; if he misses, that's it.

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Does this mean if the keeper saves the pen the player can just run up and score the rebound? It’ll be the same amount of touches🤷🏻‍♂️

Zenden in the cup final vs Bolton did it way worse but this was before VAR

We all know why this particular rule exists, and it isn’t to do with this sort of thing.

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