FROM when he first pulled on goalkeeping gloves and stood between the frame of the goal, Owain Fon Williams was taught to propel himself forward to enhance his chances of saving a spot-kick.

In the penalty shoot-out to determined which side would claim the extra Betfred Cup Group F point following the dreadfully dull goalless draw between Hamilton and their League Two opponents Queen’s Park, Fon Williams did what he’d learned as a kid to hurl himself to his right and keep out Alfredo Agyeman’s effort and seemingly win the spot-kick decider.

Referee Nick Walsh, however, ordered a retake and booked him for moving off his goalline too early but Fon Williams insists FIFA’s tough new penalty laws are now weighed too heavily in favour of the penalty taker in the battle from 12-yards.

Fon Williams said: "It is a frustrating rule.

"It is hard to save a penalty at the best of time and it is a kind of impossible task for a goalkeeper now.

"How can you save a ball when you have to stand still?

"Since the age of whatever as a goalkeeper you have been taught to dive forward for the ball at a penalty.

"The goal is so big, for you to try and stop the ball you have got to dive forward to catch it.

"Goalkeepers have no chance of saving penalties now if that is going to be the case.

"Anyway it doesn't really matter as the rules are the rules.”

“I just find it a little bit disappointing that the referee booked me for it as that is a double-whammy.

"What happened with the Agyeman penalty was that he stuttered before striking the ball.

"I was anticipating the player's shot and he has stuttered and I was holding myself but my weight was pulling me off my line and forward.

"That is what kind of happened with that.

"It is alright everybody looking at what the goalkeeper does but we also have to look at what the penalty taker does in these instances too.”

At the second time of asking teenager Agyeman slotted home his spot-kick and when Hamilton captain Darian MacKinnon then stepped up and saw his effort saved by William Muir, Thomas Block then had the chance for Queen’s to win and made no mistake.

Agyeman revealed the nerves were fluttering when he was handed a second chance but he was determined to grasp it.

Agyeman said: "The goalkeeper dived too early for the first penalty kick.

"That was what it looked like to the referee and I thought I had blown the match by missing the kick.

"I was delighted to get a second chance.

"Sometimes you get them in life and I wasn't going to miss again.

"I didn't want to let the team down in that moment.

"I was more nervous at the thought of missing the second penalty than I was taking the first.”

Welsh international Fon Williams recently became a father to a baby girl Sally and joked Scotland Women’s manager Shelly Kerr, who knows a thing or two about the new penalty laws after their World Cup exit, may be in touch in the future.

He said: “My daughter was born here six weeks ago. Sally is a little Scottish baby.

"When she is old enough then she can have the choice whether to play for Scotland or the Welsh women's team. I'd better let Shelley Kerr know now for future reference!”