Worth pointing out that getting a touch on the ball doesn't allow you to foul the opponent with impunity. Quite simply, fouling the opponent as you touch the ball is a foul. McCarthy didn't touch the ball anyway. That decision will go down in history - Jon Moss's career defining moment.From The Telegraph....
It was, as Phil Foden said afterwards, a “strange” game, with neither attack having to hit the heights to unpick some curious defending and bizarre decision-making, even if Mahrez’s goals and contribution for the third were dazzling. But there was nothing stranger than the failure to award Foden a penalty shortly after the half-hour mark when Alex McCarthy, the Southampton goalkeeper, swiped away the City midfielder’s standing leg.
Graeme Souness and Chris Waddle said Foden had been “too honest” by just about staying on his feet, and there is little doubt he should have gone down. But it becomes difficult to turn around and blame players for diving or tumbling theatrically when they run the risk of honesty getting them nowhere. It was hard to understand how referee Jonathan Moss had missed it but even more bewildering was the video assistant referee Andrew Madley’s failure to overturn the decision.
The official explanation was that, because Moss felt McCarthy had got a touch of the ball and Madley could not determine that was not the case, the decision stood. Foden said he would continue to act honestly but you would not blame him if he thinks twice about staying on his feet the next time he is in this position. “I’m an honest guy and I never like to dive, I always like to stay on my feet but 100 per cent I thought it was a penalty,” he said.
Guardiola was in disbelief. "It is just incredible that penalty was not given,” he said. “One day they are going to explain why. I do not understand it. It's incredible that in four-and-a-half-years we have won everything ourselves. No-one has given us anything.”
Alf Grey?Still angry about that, one of the worst decisions I’ve ever seen
nothing to do with the fact he works for bt and the match was covered by sky ??Wow, for that vitriolic little hateful prick to say that about that decision when it went against City is everything you need to know.
Difficult to see without being at the games but it seems that teams are playing a very high line against us which is hindering our build up. Think the commentary mentioned it against UTD. We could do with working on exposing the ball over the top/through ball to push them back a bit or at least threaten it so they cant.First 10 minutes were very poor. We conceded possession to Southampton and couldn't build any genuine attack. The reason was their press and the fact Fernandinho couldn't help us build from the back. He didn't get enough support from Kevin and Gundogan and was left alone. Think Bernardo should have played Kevin's role, and vice versa. On his current form Kevin is a bit of a liability in the build-up.
Pep changed things at half-time by putting Gundogan next to Fernandinho. After we made subs, however, we lost control again with Aguero contributing very little to our pressing game and Torres and Mendy not doing enough.
3 highly important pts though! If we beat Fulham, we'll be almost there. We'd need 3 wins form 8 games or even 2. Stones, Cancelo, Rodri, Sterling and Jesus to start vs Fulham with Bernardo and Foden in midfield.
It really does look like a corrupt decision. Impossible not to give that as a penalty after seeing the replay. It was also bizarre that during the commentary Neville and Tyler bent over backwards to try and justify the decision instead of calling it out. It looked like a clear penalty in real time. There is something going on with PGMOL. Why didn't Moss check the monitor? VAR is being implemented in a corrupt way.We would have missed the pen anyway;) Foden not going down has put a spotlight on the corruption we otherwise would not have seen.
No, let’s get this right....free kicks seen but not given.Nowhere near our best. We were lucky we were clinical. Fair play to Southampton for playing proper football. Thought they were excellent for the most part, barring their errors.
All this is moot as we should have had a penalty and playing against 10 men for over an hour.
I don’t criticise refs often, but Moss was absolutely shit tonight. Loads of free kicks missed as well as the blatant penalty.
Difficult to see without being at the games but it seems that teams are playing a very high line against us which is hindering our build up. Think the commentary mentioned it against UTD. We could do with working on exposing the ball over the top/through ball to push them back a bit or at least threaten it so they cant.