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I'm not sure I agree with this. If a player gets kicked in the air (to use an extreme example) after he's got his shot away it should still be a foul. Surely, an offense is an offense regardless of when it happens?I personally think in football there has to be some increased threshold of a pen once the ball has been hit, e.g. if the striker gets his shot away and a defender trips him after the shot has taken place it shouldn't be treated exactly the same as if the striker makes a dribble and is in control of the ball and the defender trips him.
I realise it's not implemented this way, but it's always confused me. Trying to recall who it was - Mason maybe, who scored a goal and got clattered just after which meant he missed the next few games but the defender wasn't punished in any way, which struck me as unfair.