As usual announcers are uneducated and the last to learn of
changes to the football laws of the games. The PK call in the first half of the
match between Portland Timbers and Seattle Sounders on 8/30/2015 was correct in
not including a red card for a denial of an obvious goal scoring opportunity. Since Mr. Twellman
obviously does not review the laws of the game before speaking as an expert –
only speaks as a paid talking head – he would not know that obvious goal
scoring opportunities have been recently better defined to include not just
proximity between an attacker and the ball, one of four "D"s, but
must now also include "keeping or gaining control of the ball" as
well as the other three "D"s. This is again another example of
miseducation by paid talking dummkopfs.
