Quote: snowie "like to see another ruling fetched in, standing like a crucifix when you know your blocking a path to a player, Percival was within his rights to stay still with a player coming in but held both arms out wide which then blocks his path around him, to me that's just as bad as running into a players path'"
I'd prefer it if that loophole (because that's what it is) was closed altogether. It's one thing for a stationary player to stay stationary but it's another entirely for him to move into the path of a running player and stop just before contact, thus being stationary and having a "right" to remain so. Such a player is not intending to contest the ball; he is intending, quite clearly, to obstruct his opponent.
