Eds said:
Bearing in mind his position for the Silva non penalty award can Twattenberg please explain why he thought Silva fell over when if he had skipped around Bosingwa he would have been one on one with Cech. Did he believe that Silva slipped or dived or worse did he think that there was contact but Silva should have stayed on his feet. As for the Lescott penalty am I the only one on here who didn't think it was a penalty. How was it deliberate when the arm it struck was by his side and he wasn't even looking at the ball!!
hands in the air, away from his body - certainly not hand to ball, but still a nailed on pen (I'm a ref and I would give that if I saw it this weekend!)
as for the silva pen, who knows what he thought, why he made no decision is beyond me, its either a pen or a yellow for diving (obviously should have been a pen) and doing nothing in my mind is worse than had he booked silva for diving. you can forgive a wrong decision, but not making a decision at all...not impressed with that.
same goes for the meireles tackle, he saw it (clearly enough to award a free kick and book him) however to only show the yellow card is beyond me, really poor decision.
however i dont think he's bent / bribed etc, just made two poor decisions at the time, it happens every game, happens to me often enough!