Premier League Games 6/7/8 May '23

Swings at the ball to clear it and Johnson sticks his foot in front of it.
Piss poor decision.Having said that if it was given to us pen all day
 
You might be in the minority but I agree I think it has to be a penalty. He clearly kicks him and gets nowhere near the ball. I don’t see how it can be anything else within the confines of the current rules.

You can argue it’s rough on the defender and I agree, but there’s no provision in the rules for it to be anything but a penalty.
Nailed on pen.
 
I’ll add I don’t think this is like the KDB/Partey situation for the simple reason that in that case Partey deliberately ran away from the ball to intercept De Bruyne without attempting playing the ball. Here the attacker was just trying to get in front of him and he succeeded.
I think they are very similar, as one player only had designs to play the ball, whilst the other only had designs to play the man (or, more accurately, make the man play them).

The Soton player, like Partey, could see the entire way that the Forest player was going to kick the ball, and intentionally ran in at the very last second to get kicked.

It’s a cunts trick and it is against the spirit of the law.
 

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