Schalke post match thread

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

I must just add to this discussion that I listened to RManc on the way home from the MCWFC v EFC game tonight and dear Danny Mills was co-commentationg, and I must say that he was very much behind City tonight. He thought the first pen was laughable and that Otters second yellow was very much debatable. At 2-1 down he was confident that come the game at The Etihad we would put the tie out of Schalke's reach. Well done, Danny!

 

[The Colonel]

Wio. What an absolute cock. And to think he actually gets paid for that. Unbelievable.

Didn’t he say no pen?

 

[@BluePhil8]

Only heard it mentioned on Five Live by Mills of all people how by the protocol the ref is supposed to consult a screen but it was 'broken ' ?and got told to reverse his decision and give Nico a yellow.........but what a fucking comeback!

Wonder who was on the the other end of his ear piece....

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

The movement of the arm towards or away from the ball is only part of the decision process for the ref.

Cool. So someone who moves their arm away from the ball, as opposed to towards it, is deliberately committing a handball offence? For a penalty to be given the rule requires the offence to be deliberate of course.

I respect your view, and that of SWP, of course. The point I am trying to make is that the stated aim of VAR is to clear up clear and obvious errors. It does no such thing. Limit it to goal line decisions, limit it to offsides if you like (tho evidence from cricket and tennis is that it is far from
Infallible on line decisions). Don’t have it in play for subjective decisions. Give the ref a camera to look at. Leave it to him

 

[Blue Llama]

I might be a plum but at least I'm not a nerf herder

I haven't got the time to waste on arguing with someone who cannot understand a basic point.

 

[Withnail]

Great win and our character and resilience certainly can not be questioned tonight. Leroy take a bow what a beautiful goal and he should have been on the field a lot earlier for me as we we seemed to be running out of ideas and his pace, mazy runs would have helped us.

Ref the usual pile of shit but no surprise in the CL.

Pep got the team selection wrong tonight imo and should have played Dhino in his usual DM role, with Zinchenko at LB and Laporte at cb.

 

[hihosilva]

Around the refs throat would have been a start...

Lol

 

[west didsblue]

I’d be crying out for a penalty if it was us appealing. I thought pen straight away and I still think it was now. There’s a fine line with these sort of incidents, but he wasn’t exactly point blank and his arms were outstretched. Add to the fact the ball looking liked it was on target and I can’t see how it isn’t a penalty. Like I said, if it was City in the same situation, I’d be going nuts for a pen.

Was thinking the same. No complaints about that one. The second one was more iffy imo because of the offside.

 

[inchy14]

Watch any game of football and 90% of defenders put both arms behind their backs once they square up in the penalty area. Micah Richards did it every time.

Except at Klanfield

 

[cleavers]

If that was the case then they would have disallowed our first and third goals.

Why ? Our third, their player pushes Sterling first, the first isn't even up for debate its never a foul, they initially reviewed it for offside, but then went back 1 minute to see if it was a foul, it wasn't.