Originally Posted by Anonymous
I never understood the taking back of a goal and penalizing the defending team makes no sense.

Basketball has the comtinuation after the foul.
Hockey has a delayed penalty
Soccer plays advantage
football throws the flag and then have option of taking play of penalty


Women's lax has advantage as well ... just not with regard to shooting space. You will often see a ref raise their flag and wait for the outcome of the play before calling the foul. You will also see "play on" motioned when the offense has the "advantage". The shooting space call is the only automatic stoppage of play.