Quote Originally Posted by ghostrider View Post
It was never a red card in a month of Sunday's.
The referee has basically made a decision on the aftermath rather than the actual situation.

Looking at it from the logical point of view, you have to say that there was clearly a red card offence but not Mane's. It was their keeper who should have walked with a red for the clear foul on Mane as the last man.

The keeper left his own area and became an outfield player who went in head first like a bull in a China shop into Mane, who was clearly only observing the ball, anyway.

Having said all of that, it comes down to the letter of the law, which is always going to side with the injured party and also the referee on this type of occasion.

This kind of issue can easily be resolved by (like I mentioned earlier) penalising goalkeepers for playing the ball outside of their 18 yard box or making any contact with an opposition player outside of it.
You can't have rules restricting some players from some parts of the pitch.

What about the situation where a GK has come right up the field for a very late corner or free kick and scored.

Or a GK building up an attack as the opposing team are retreating and him playing the ball further up the pitch to get more range before he kicks out.

That would be too much of a retrograde game changer.