daztrueblue91
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I've noticed far too often that pundits justify dives and soft penalties and free kicks by using the excuse there was contact. I was in work so I missed the City game yesterday but when I watched the highlights I could not believe the outrage over the Lukaku non penalty. The guy is built like a brick wall and goes down from the slightest of nudges. He was going nowhere and if he wanted to he could have stayed on his feet. To be fair Zabba went down far to easily as well and that never should have been a pen.
I understand the game has changed dramatically in recent years but it's the pundits attitudes that really annoy me. They are supposed to be ex pro's who have played the game yet that come out with the same old clichéd bollocks about that if there is contact then its a foul. It's ok publically having a pop at people like Ashley Young who week in, week out dive to get an advantage. But players who make the most of minimal contact are just as bad.
I noticed in the West Brom V Arsenal game, one of the WBA players made a fantastic last ditch challenge on Wilshere and clearly won the ball. After the game Jamie Redknapp spent more time saying how it could of been a penalty because he challenged from behind than praising the tackle.There was a tackle by Milner yesterday right at the end of the first half in which he got booked where again he won the ball cleanly in a hard but fair challenge. The commentator on MOTD said he was lucky to escape a red card.
I get that they are entitled to their opinion but does anyone else get annoyed by the way they justify the amount of free-kicks given for nothing challenges what stop the flow of the game?
I understand the game has changed dramatically in recent years but it's the pundits attitudes that really annoy me. They are supposed to be ex pro's who have played the game yet that come out with the same old clichéd bollocks about that if there is contact then its a foul. It's ok publically having a pop at people like Ashley Young who week in, week out dive to get an advantage. But players who make the most of minimal contact are just as bad.
I noticed in the West Brom V Arsenal game, one of the WBA players made a fantastic last ditch challenge on Wilshere and clearly won the ball. After the game Jamie Redknapp spent more time saying how it could of been a penalty because he challenged from behind than praising the tackle.There was a tackle by Milner yesterday right at the end of the first half in which he got booked where again he won the ball cleanly in a hard but fair challenge. The commentator on MOTD said he was lucky to escape a red card.
I get that they are entitled to their opinion but does anyone else get annoyed by the way they justify the amount of free-kicks given for nothing challenges what stop the flow of the game?