When goalkeepers slide and forwards go to ground, controversy follows

Robert Black, the Old Georgians and Scotland over-45’s goalkeeper, has seen an “extreme shift over the last three years” in the umpiring of keepers’ sliding. The experienced campaigner feels that there is a random nature to the decisions and the variation from umpire to umpire is too great. Some, he says, feel that a goalkeeper has privileges … Continue reading When goalkeepers slide and forwards go to ground, controversy follows