Quote Originally Posted by LaxtonLad View Post
Jumping with a raised arm in the penalty area is risky, in this case the arm deflected the ball. To say you are innocent of any intent and must use your arm to jump is naive and irrelevant.

Surely it's not worthy of a penalty kick though. You'd rather be sent off than concede a goal, somebody could seriously injure another player and his team suffers less than somebody accidentally getting their arm in the way of a tame effort at goal that most likely wouldn't have gone in. We've just seen one of the best goals of the tournament wiped out by *that*. It's a complete and utter farce.