KenL
Tour Rookie
So funny, why would that absolutely not a penalty have been given at the other end? #paranoia
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KenL
Tour Rookie
rudebhoy
Q-School Graduate
If it was absolutely not a penalty, why did the VAR team ask the referee to review his original decision not to give it? They obviously thought he’d made a clear and obvious error.
We all know that “big” teams get decisions that smaller teams don’t, both domestically and in Europe. If it had been at the other end, he would have watched the footage a couple of times, saw the stamp, and given the penalty.
KenL
Tour Rookie
There was no stamp. The defender clearly kicked the ball away.
rudebhoy
Q-School Graduate
So it’s ok to stamp on someone if you play the ball first? I like Hart but he doesn’t half talk rubbish sometimes.
Maeda gave a penalty away recently when he hooked a ball clear then made contact with the opponent. That was the right decision.
KenL
Tour Rookie
Again it wasn’t a “stamp”, his foot landed on top of his by accident.
rudebhoy
Q-School Graduate
So why did the VAR team ask the ref to review it? They obviously thought it was a foul.
We both know that 99% of the time, when the ref is asked to go to the screen, he changes his decision.
Anyway, it’s done.
rudebhoy
Q-School Graduate
So if you foul someone “by accident “ it’s not a foul? When did they bring that rule in?
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
I thought penalty; then saw replay and thought penalty; then saw another and thought…hmmm…maybe not - ball first then putting foot down.
KenL
Tour Rookie
That is what var is for.
Springveldt
Well-known member
I'm not sure if it's not given down the other end, there were a few "bizarre" decisions towards corners, Celtic got denied 2 clear corners, one of them right in front of the linesman when the Bayern left back clearly kicks the ball out. While down the other end Bayern got 2 corners when 1 of them the ball had clearly crossed the line before the cutback and the other the last touch clearly came off a Bayern player.
Doubt the penalty decision changes the overall tie anyway as I'm sure we are getting pumped over there by at least 3 goals.
Springveldt
Well-known member
After the 2nd went in (and how the fk is Harry Kane standing all alone at the back post?) I got the fear and was expecting a 5-0 drubbing. All credit to the team for sticking in even if it seemed Bayern took their foot of the gas a little. Away fixture is watching through the fingers until the inevitable 2nd or 3rd and then switching over to something else. 
rudebhoy
Q-School Graduate
Did I hear right the other night, that the winners of the knock out ties get an additional 11 million euros? Not that we are going through, but that's a staggering amount of money.
KenL
Tour Rookie
rudebhoy
Q-School Graduate
an additional 23.5m for getting to the quarter finals, it really is quite obscene.
Hence the ever growing gap between the haves and have nots
GreiginFife
Money List Winner
And this is how we find the one horse league that we have. Celtic brought in more money from 6 CL games than a team like St Johnstone did in an entire season. And 3 of those CL games were draws.Hence the ever growing gap between the haves and have nots
It may be obscene at the top end, but even at the "bottom" end of it, Celtic make off quite nicely from it all and will be able to remain so far ahead in Scottish football that the others might as well just pack up and go home.
That's mirrored across Europe, even in the bigger leagues, and I find that sad. It reduces league competitiveness and makes European football dull as it's largely the same teams year after year
. I appreciate that doing well should be rewarded but the scales are tipped too far at the moment. A shame.
chico
Club Champion
It us all structured so the teams from the top 5 leagues get the biggest share because of tv money. It's the equivalent of Hovland winning the Masters but getting 25% of the winnings an American would get.
It has stopped true competition, could you imagine Malmo getting to a UCL final like the did in the seventies? As someone else has pointed out it distorts competition in the smaller leagues. If Celtic get knocked out they will have already made more money than Rangers would get for winning the Europa league.
It has stopped true competition, could you imagine Malmo getting to a UCL final like the did in the seventies? As someone else has pointed out it distorts competition in the smaller leagues. If Celtic get knocked out they will have already made more money than Rangers would get for winning the Europa league.
GreiginFife
Money List Winner
Thing is, I can't think of many "developed" leagues where the balance is tipped quite as far. Aberdeen is, technically, the 3rd biggest club in Scotland. Celtic's 6 CL game income dwarfed their entire match day income for a year.That's mirrored across Europe, even in the bigger leagues, and I find that sad. It reduces league competitiveness and makes European football dull as it's largely the same teams year after year
I can't think of many other leagues where that would happen, other than some of the more obscure Eastern European leagues (without intending offence to them).
