Lovebitesandeveryfing
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Re. the pen on Kev. I think, having watched it several times, the United player just gets enough on the ball. That's what swings the decision. No need to see a conspiracy.
As for the “handball”, though, all arguments about the body being “unnaturally bigger” or the arm “outstretched” are just not on. I'd like to know how you naturally jump with your arms by your sides, or behind your back. That would be unnatural. As Jack said, he wasn't even looking at the ball. According to the law as it stands, it was a penalty.
The law, as an obscure dramatist said in the seventeenth century, is an ass. It must be adjusted. It will be adjusted.
We've been the victim of this several times, and I'm now getting tired of it. Didn't it happen to Riyad earlier on this season, where the ball simply brushed his arm and a goal was ruled out? And I don't even want to get into the disallowed goal at the death against Spurs a few years back. Still seething.
Mind you, rather be us than Spurs.
As for the “handball”, though, all arguments about the body being “unnaturally bigger” or the arm “outstretched” are just not on. I'd like to know how you naturally jump with your arms by your sides, or behind your back. That would be unnatural. As Jack said, he wasn't even looking at the ball. According to the law as it stands, it was a penalty.
The law, as an obscure dramatist said in the seventeenth century, is an ass. It must be adjusted. It will be adjusted.
We've been the victim of this several times, and I'm now getting tired of it. Didn't it happen to Riyad earlier on this season, where the ball simply brushed his arm and a goal was ruled out? And I don't even want to get into the disallowed goal at the death against Spurs a few years back. Still seething.
Mind you, rather be us than Spurs.
