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Question Number: 16855Law 12 - Fouls and Misconduct 9/23/2007RE: Local club level Under 13 Terry Allen of Coffs Harbour, NSW Australia asks...My question relates to the history of the laws of the game; specifically challenges on goalkeepers. I have heard that a player used to be able to physically challenge goalkeepers while they were holding the ball in the hope they would drop it. This, I am told, was called "bunting". Was this ever a universal law and, if so, when did FIFA put a stop to it? Answer provided by Referee Chuck Fleischer Up until sometime after 1958 this was a legitimate tactic. In fact I scored a goal once when the goalkeeper presented his left shoulder to me whilst off balance very near his goal line. In he went and fairly charged he was! Between then and 1976 some one took that bit of fun away, and rightly so.
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