Match of the Day - 2022/23

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Alan Harper's Tash said:
Unless Ayew’s elbow is halfway up his radius, it wasn’t an elbow.

Haaland’s high boot wasn’t dissimilar to the Mané red card in the 5-0. People moaned about that being a red card and so they can’t have it both ways.
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Seriously ? No seriously? Similar to Mane !!! Eddie was in the air jumping to head it. The defender was stooping to head it. Its about as similar as mild and bitter.
As for Ayew, motd showed the replay, he elbowed him. Not a red card nasty elbow but still a foul.
 
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To be honest i dont watch it
Anymore you will never change their opnions
Total waste of time giving MOTD Relevance
 
34yearsandstillgoingstrong said:
So MoD highlight the Ederson and Haaland "incidents" as both controversially going in City's favour whereas they chose to ignore the forearm smash into Cancelo's face ( which led to the second goal ) But why no comment about CP's first goal ? The ball comes in from the free kick and it appears to be deflected onto Stones's knee off the CP forward's hand and so on into the net . All the City defenders claim a "handball" but evidently VAR sees no need to investigate. The commentator says it deflected off Walker's elbow. Looking at it many times in slow-mo , I'd certainly vote for the CP's player hand ( the City defenders certainly thought so )

And following the novel interpretation of offside for St Marcus's goal against the Dippers it was equally bizarre how the experts interpreted McTominay playing "keepy-uppy" of the ball with his arms , in the Southampton game, as not being a penalty. I rather think we'll see a lot of VAR and PIGMOL keeping the Rags relevant this season !
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Palace’s first goal was very similar to the rags own goal against Brighton.

Both were given, so at least there is consistency.
 
Blue Mist said:
Seriously ? No seriously? Similar to Mane !!! Eddie was in the air jumping to head it. The defender was stooping to head it. Its about as similar to mild and bitter.
As for Ayew, motd showed the replay, he elbowed him. Not a red card nasty elbow but still a foul.
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I’ll chat with you when you’ve read the rest of the discussion last night, rather than this knee jerk initial reaction.
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
If Haaland had drawn blood yesterday, would it have changed the Referee’s decision, do you think?
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Well his other foot was planted and it was more the duck into him than say Mane’s. But I’m sure if their player was covered in blood then it may have been factored in yes, it’s human nature. Like when Son saw straight red when he broke that bloke’s leg despite it not being the most outrageous foul you’d see most weekends.
 
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Well his other foot was planted and it was more the duck into him than say Mane’s. But I’m sure if their player was covered in blood then it may have been factored in yes, it’s human nature. Like when Son saw straight red when he broke that bloke’s leg despite it not being the most outrageous foul you’d see most weekends.
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Agreed and this is why we will always have debates about what challenge deserves what card.
 
dronefromsector7G said:
Sorry I thought when you mentioned ‘the elbow’ agenda being pushed you may be distinguishing between the elbow and forearm for a reason
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You’re far more likely to be sent off for elbowing an opponent to using a forearm.

That being said, if you use your forearm like Ben Thatcher did against Mendes, you can cause some serious damage.

I was distinguishing the two as some people were suggesting Cancelo was elbowed, when it’s blatantly obvious that he wasn’t.
 
In the street it is a night in the cells, on a football pitch in front of tv cameras it appears to be acceptable.
 
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