I haven’t been watching, only just saw the replay via halftime coverage on USA.
I am quite disappointed in Robbie Earle, who I usually think does a decent job of talking sense, commenting on the penalty saying he thought it was one and stating that “it shows the maturity of Arsenal this season, as last season Havertz may have tried to round the keeper and stayed on his feet and not gotten the goal”, before rounding it off with “but if I am a striker, and the keeper comes out, I am going to drag my feet and get the penalty”.
I may be misremembering, but I feel like he has said the exact opposite in the past, practically denouncing strikers being dishonest by trying to “buy” penalties.
Can only think the producers have finally taken complete control and begun to feed them their talking points as they have been on BBC and Sky Sports for many years now. Up until now it seemed like they were allowed to speak their mind, even when it went against the prevailing narrative in the UK.
Not so much any more, I guess.
Sad to see.