The Michael Oliver Penalty Thread

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

I thought you'd be blaming the "RDAH Meedya"!

It's a good shout, jim. The blame for anything, Brexit, the weather, one of me tyres puncturing, running out of milk, gets laid at the doorstep of either PiGMOL or the RDAHMeedya!

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Come on, for two of them the other player ran into them and flung themselves to floor. Some teams get those week in week out, I just can’t understand how the refs are so fooled by it. United, Liverpool and Leicester seem to be doing it loads. There was a game last season where Martial ran into the box and flung himself to floor, the ref didn’t give it, he then got up and came out of the box, United won the ball back and attacked down the flank and he ran into the box and did the exact same thing. Literally two dives in less than a minute, the second one was given as a penalty. In slow motion the defender put his arm on his shoulder. So yeah there was minimal contact but enough to send him flying to the ground, no chance. It was the same on Sunday, felt a slight bit of contact and let there legs buckle, in each occasion the attacker instigated the penalty. Then you have this tactic where the striker kicks the defenders leg and goes flying over. The game has become riddled with cheats, divers and penalty instigators. It’s obvious to some teams they will get the penalties and the fouls given to them if they go to the floor so they do it week in week out.

There isn't a game I watch, whether City or Frickley Colliery, where I fail to verbalise my perplexity at some of the 'fouls' that the Whistling Wankers judge to be a foul - fourteen stone, muscle-bound, strong as oxen players tumbling to the ground when a hand just happens to graze a shoulder - WHY DO THEY FALL FOR THAT WEEK IN WEEK OUT! WHY HAS HE DEEMED THAT A FOUL? THE FUCKER HAS JUST DECIDED TO COLLAPSE TURFWARD! The tosses at PiGMOL have gone along with it and it is now commonplace. It is clear from what I have seen that you cannot, as refs seem to suggest by their inaction, be fouled if you stay upright. If someone grabs a handful of shirt, unless it's Micah at Goodison, you don't get the foul unless you pirouette and collapse to the floor. Holding your face with both hands is a great help to Lee Mason, and Jonny Moss has always looked kindly at players screaming the South Stand down with two shattered shins which miraculously heal themselves in time for them to take the free kick - and score! David Silva was regularly fouled THREE TIMES in each incident before the ref thought to blow, because he stayed on his feet. What happened to yellow cards for simulation? What happened to looking at games during the week and calling out the divers? Invariably it would be some hapless player from EFC who copped it and that box would be ticked. If I were looking for some sport to occupy my leisure time I fancy that football these days would be way down the list.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

We definitely do,I am amazed some of our fans saying all three were penalties. They absolutely were not if we go by what happened to Brighton.

The biggest criterion for awarding the three pens was that they all occurred in our penalty area. Would we have got them down the other end? How many of them would be given in the Dipper or Rag areas?

As sure as we play on green grass and get at least one kick off a game, there would not be an identical outcome in two different games and in two different areas!

 

[I'm With Stupid]

I think they should change the rules so that you have to stay on your feet. So even if you're fouled, if you're clearly choosing to fall over, it shouldn't be given. The one I remember the most was Walker on Sterling where we basically lost a game because Sterling chose to stay on his feet rather than go down under an obvious foul. And from then on, you noticed Sterling now goes down if he thinks he's been fouled.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

The biggest criterion for awarding the three pens was that they all occurred in our penalty area. Would we have got them down the other end? How many of them would be given in the Dipper or Rag areas?

Agreed. They were all examples of penalties that sometimes you get and sometimes you don't. But surprise surprise, against us, they're given every time.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Agreed. They were all examples of penalties that sometimes you get and sometimes you don't. But surprise surprise, against us, they're given every time.

Yer can almost visualise The Bottler on his prayer mat extolling the Archangel Mike Riley to send him a Leicester player tumbling in the City area.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Agreed. They were all examples of penalties that sometimes you get and sometimes you don't. But surprise surprise, against us, they're given every time.

It's not insignificant that every fuckin' time these players only feel the contact the second they get a foot on the penalty area line. No one goes down a foot outside the area either! They wait, and wait, and bingo! they've been clattered, chopped and taken out by a hand on a shoulder.

 

[KentBlue]

It's not insignificant that every fuckin' time these players only feel the contact the second they get a foot on the penalty area line. No one goes down a foot outside the area either! They wait, and wait, and bingo! they've been clattered, chopped and taken out by a hand on a shoulder.

Yep. The dark arts - and no one was a bigger exponent of it than the Pisscan. Now we have Bingo and a few others to pick up the baton and run with it.

 

[Nellies left peg]

Yer can almost visualise The Bottler on his prayer mat extolling the Archangel Mike Riley to send him a Leicester player tumbling in the City area.

Although Steptoe leaving his leg out to initiate contact doesn't get taken into account

 

[blue61]

It was almost guaranteed that Oliver was going to give anything he could against us after the debacle and berating of Anfield last season. Is this the first time he has been ref for us at home since then?