Soft is a word I used and I acknowledge it is inaccurate. Having watched grappling at every corner in every game this season without punishment maybe a better adjective is 'unexpected'. Why? I am still at a loss as to why it was given when every other instance is ignored. Payback for last season? Do me a favour. Lets see how many similar penalties are given in the next round for similar infringements. I predict zero.'Cos we got it! What I don't understand is why, if Oliver intervened and assisted Blind Tierney when Rodri was grievously fouled inside the Rag area, why didn't he repeat his 'assist' when Haaland was dragged to the grass inside the Rag area?
The people who think that the Rodri pen was 'soft' are the same people who thought that Jack's fingernail in the Final was a blatant handball and a stonewall pen!
'Ignoring the LotG' is probably the kindest and most euphemistic way of saying the bastards are cheating.
I think they have an unwritten law or an understanding something along the following lines.I don't understand why City's penalty is being described as soft, or controversial. Law 12 includes:
"A direct free kick is awarded if a player commits any of the following offences:
holds an opponent"
This becomes a penalty if committed by a player in his own penalty area.
There is no further explanation or clarification, so this consideration of whether Rodri could have reached the ball is just unnecessary noise and obfuscation.
The controversy occurs for all the times holding occurs in the penalty area and a penalty is not awarded. When this happens, the referees are ignoring the Laws of the Game. If this was penalised more often, holding would stop, and the contest would be a fair one between opposing players.
I though Jack was excellent one of his best games perhaps.Touché! Haha!
Still waiting to see a post from our Kaz giving Jack credit for his recent performance but I guess she didn’t see that game..
On the plus side, Antony can stink out 3 more games for them.There seems to be this whole idea that more should be made of the penalty and it was a disgraceful decision but the true disgraceful decision was not send anthony off, by every metric and letter of the law he lashed out and its a clear a sending off as you will ever see.
I havent posted in anyones thread but i guess you didnt see thatTouché! Haha!
Still waiting to see a post from our Kaz giving Jack credit for his recent performance but I guess she didn’t see that game..
I think refs are ignoring/cheating on holding in the area, but if someone is thrown to the ground it moves into the area of a 'trip'! Still doesn't explain why we didn't get the second. Carbon copy of Rodri's!Soft is a word I used and I acknowledge it is inaccurate. Having watched grappling at every corner in every game this season without punishment maybe a better adjective is 'unexpected'. Why? I am still at a loss as to why it was given when every other instance is ignored. Payback for last season? Do me a favour. Lets see how many similar penalties are given in the next round for similar infringements. I predict zero.
Happy to take it though.
The foul on Rodri was nothing compared to the battles Haaland has been having. It has really reduced his threat at set pieces this season. All we want are the lotg applied in a sensible, consistent manner. Not much to ask you would think.I think refs are ignoring/cheating on holding in the area, but if someone is thrown to the ground it moves into the area of a 'trip'! Still doesn't explain why we didn't get the second. Carbon copy of Rodri's!
Asking for the LotG to be applied as they are written is something I've long given up on. For many a season now we have had to secure a win by stint of more goals than the opposition as the LotG are massaged beyond recognition. The arbitrators of the game are more concerned with managing a game with as little controversy as possible, despite what the fans in the ground have seen with their own fuckin' eyes. And there is an ever-expanding queue of ex-refs who invariably tell us that the foul on Haaland wasn't a foul, the trip on Foden wasn't a trip and when Bernardo gets his customary kicking we are reminded that it's a 'contact' sport. Laughable!The foul on Rodri was nothing compared to the battles Haaland has been having. It has really reduced his threat at set pieces this season. All we want are the lotg applied in a sensible, consistent manner. Not much to ask you would think.
I think refs are ignoring/cheating on holding in the area, but if someone is thrown to the ground it moves into the area of a 'trip'! Still doesn't explain why we didn't get the second. Carbon copy of Rodri's!