Benin is wrong here. Yes there's goalkeeper protection, but it's nothing new. One of the first and fundamental laws of football is that a team must consist of AT LEAST 7 players INCLUDING a goalkeeper. The game MUST be stopped when the keeper is out of action, that is just fact. Ever wondered why at kick off the ref requires acknowledgement from both keepers that they are ready and aware? And that keepers are the ONLY players who can request the game to stop? This is why. Obviously you have to apply common sense here, like if nothing much is going on and the keeper needs to do his laces or he has injured himself, etc. But a controversial keeper could (in theory) stop an attack in a similar fashion. Then it's up to the referee to make a decision.
I don't go to as many live games as I'd like to, but even still I've seen a handful of times where the keeper has been injured in a messy box mêlée gone down, a couple of kicks later the ball ends up in the net, but the whistle goes for an indirect freekick, even though there was no foul. It happens.
