Nottingham Forest (H) | Sat 23rd Sept | PL | Post Match Thread

[Bluekiwi]

Just watched the incident again. Pity Alty didn't blow for a foul on Rodri when Gibbs pushed him over the first time. What followed MAY have been avoided.

 

[eyalluvitt]

 

[Saddleworth2]

I thought that Pep went as far as he could in calling out that Alty refereeing us different to other teams by majoring on the Haaland foul for which no yellow was given vs the Okanji yellow some minutes later. He said more than enough for any decent journalist to run with a story but if they do you just know it will be against us.

 

[invisibleandalone]

Fuckwits on here and twitter calling him’Plodri’ I recall

Proud to say "not me". From the day he arrived, I said he'd be one of the best buys we make.

 

[invisibleandalone]

Just watched the incident again. Pity Alty didn't blow for a foul on Rodri when Gibbs pushed him over the first time. What followed MAY have been avoided.

Exactly the point Pep is letting known

 

[trevorriley]

it was clear after 20 mis forest could not handle city, so it was time to play shithousery with injuries, laying down, ball out of play, thought we where playing atletico madrid !

the ref was clearly not capable of controlling a game when a team like forest plays with this manner. He was to slow to respond on the rodri incident and again on the ederson one. Then he fell for the most idiotic trick in the book when the forest player dived to the ground like he had been strangled to get rodri sent off. Thought the referee controlled games not players, admit it Alty you got the game wrong.

 

[the-ecstacy-of-eight]

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You missed a trick there mate, The Moston Strangler might've been funnier ;)

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Mind you, the way GW went down it did look like Rodri hit him with the force of Ali’s right hand. I agree with @FantasyIreland that the PFA ought to start looking at all forms of cheating all over the pitch and not just at diving in the area.

There are so many discrepancies, variations and complete ignoring of some instances across PL games that if someone was to look at them all then the game would change remarkably. Five or ten pens each match for holding at corners, players sent off for diving and simulating, players booked for timewasting, and so on. Trouble is that those in charge of the game don't want any controversy - which is why it's in the shitty state it now finds itself. Football should be reffed in the same manner as rugby union. But the lily-livered whistling wankers would crumble the first time the scarlet clad bared their teeth in disagreement, and then the poor sods, were they to bite the bullet, would find that PiGMOL, the FA and the PL would collectively pull the rug from under them.

Timewasting is no different than tripping somebody. The latter, unless Anthony has the whistle, is a straightforward free kick. Why does a timewasting goalie not run the risk of a goal kick being converted to a corner if they take excessive time over it, and the same with a throwing. If yer don't take the ball behind yer head and stand on or behind the line it's a foul throw and the opposition get it. Why not do the same with players not taking it from where it went out or taking all fuckin' day over it?

It would take fans half an hour to 'clean up' the game and put in place a suitable series of sanctions for the 'cheats'.

 

[paulchapo]

Forest went down a lot in my estimation after Saturday. Absolutely shitehouse tactics.

 

[normskih]

Yeah, I suggested a 10 min mandatory concussion check for such things, but players would just find another way.

How do you define a proper head injury? That’d be where the ruling would fall down.

A clash of heads perhaps?