Why no pen?

[East Level 2]

Dear Manuel,

If you spout off about one of our blind, incompetent officials in the first leg then we'll give you an even bigger toss-pot in the second leg, especially if you're up against the Spanish rags; one of our favourite teams.
Glad to clear that up.

Love and kisses

Mick Platini<br /><br />-- Thu Mar 13, 2014 5:10 pm --<br /><br />

You have to remember also the vociferous appealing that Barca gave when Kompany scored our onside goal, I honestly thought they were going to overturn that, some much was the intimidation, no getting away from it the pressure from the crowd & players affects referree's decisions. Easy not to give anything.

Vociferous appealing that wasn't rewarded with a card. What a surprise.

 

[Rösler von Stretfordbömber]

The Ref was awful, yes he got a couple of Barca decisions wrong too, but what really wound me up was all the minor fouls he gave against City, which must have really pissed the players off, Iniesta falling over when being breathed on by Yaya, the same as in the first leg. As soon as Yaya is fouled by a shortarse player, nothing is given.

This is what gets me. He got a couple of big ones wrong yes, but it was the nothing fouls that went barcas way and got our boys booked.

And this from the absolute get-go. Takes you completely out of your game almost immediately.

What fucked me right off was the sequence where Kolarov gets booked for looking sideways at the little twink Neymar. Then Zabba gets utterly annihilated by Iniesta - NO CARD. Then Zabba gets carded for a foul on Iniesta that MAY have warranted a yellow from a fair official. All within about 3 minutes.

I'm not saying we were the better club and deserved to win 0-3 or some such. But when you see maddening shite like that it makes you feel as if the whole exercise is just pointless.

By the way, fuck you Neymar.

 

[Eds]

I wonder if UEFA will ban the ref from reffing for a few games?? I doubt it. Did anyone think there was a foul on Silva as well that could have been a pen or was that just outside the box when Iniesta took him out.

 

[aguero93:20]

I wonder if UEFA will ban the ref from reffing for a few games?? I doubt it. Did anyone think there was a foul on Silva as well that could have been a pen or was that just outside the box when Iniesta took him out.

Think it was just outside the box, as much a penalty as messi's in the first leg though.

 

[littlemarkyc]

get over it....this doesnt need its own thread....

why is there a conspiracy theory when we dont get a pen, but there isnt when they had 2-3 goals dissalowed harshly....you sound like a liverpool fan. we werent hard done by.....we should have had a pen...so should they....the fact is they had anoher gear to go into if they needed it and we played well, but are not at that level yet. its no big deal.

the ref had a shocker....agreed....it happens...if somehoe we'd turned it around and got through, now that would have deserved its own thread, becasue then there really would have been conspiracy theories!

 

[jared]

Probably just want to even things up. He farked up on their penalty decision with messi so he evens things up with the non decision with Dzeko.

 

[jimharri]

Yes Barca should have been given a spot-kick in the first half and yes they scored a perfectly legit goal that was chalked off. But just concentrating on the baffling decision not to award us with a pen I'm really curious if anyone has an inkling as to WHY this decision was reached?

Because the ref saw the offence clear as day. And it's not even up for debate whether Pique collided with Dzeko and took his legs away.

So it is not down to interpretation surely? The ref couldnt have believed for example that Dzeko made a meal of the challenge.

So what was his thought process?

The only possibility for me - and its a reach - is that he perceieved Pique to be falling after losing his balance and thus accidentally collided with Dzeko. So there was no intent.

Anyone else got a theory because, aside from the above, I'm fucking stumped.

Did you not read the memo then boyo? It's ''The Agenda''™.

 

[akcity]

Yes Barca should have been given a spot-kick in the first half and yes they scored a perfectly legit goal that was chalked off. But just concentrating on the baffling decision not to award us with a pen I'm really curious if anyone has an inkling as to WHY this decision was reached?

Because the ref saw the offence clear as day. And it's not even up for debate whether Pique collided with Dzeko and took his legs away.

So it is not down to interpretation surely? The ref couldnt have believed for example that Dzeko made a meal of the challenge.

So what was his thought process?

The only possibility for me - and its a reach - is that he perceieved Pique to be falling after losing his balance and thus accidentally collided with Dzeko. So there was no intent.

Anyone else got a theory because, aside from the above, I'm fucking stumped.

I think that you answered your own question by the synopsis of the ridiculous decisions that he didn't give Barca.

I will also throw in the hat that we are lucky a couple more of our players weren't sent off. Some late challenges that didn't get booked at first.

 

[Mr. Aguia]

Yes Barca should have been given a spot-kick in the first half and yes they scored a perfectly legit goal that was chalked off. But just concentrating on the baffling decision not to award us with a pen I'm really curious if anyone has an inkling as to WHY this decision was reached?

Because the ref saw the offence clear as day. And it's not even up for debate whether Pique collided with Dzeko and took his legs away.

So it is not down to interpretation surely? The ref couldnt have believed for example that Dzeko made a meal of the challenge.

So what was his thought process?

The only possibility for me - and its a reach - is that he perceieved Pique to be falling after losing his balance and thus accidentally collided with Dzeko. So there was no intent.

Anyone else got a theory because, aside from the above, I'm fucking stumped.

I think you are giving him way too much credit. He wasn't going to give us a penalty even if Pique tore off his arm and beat him with it. Maybe he was told at half time that he missed the penalty in the first so it was a make up call or he just wasn't going to give the away team any shot at winning the game.

 

[Bill]

er cos he's a cheat.