The Footie Thread

[Neilds]

Am I right in thinking that until ball is touched at a corner the ball is dead and so nothing can happen. Refs have not got the bottle to penalise the defender, it always seems the attacker is committing the foul. Maybe it will just take a farcical couple of weeks in all divisions and have 6,7,8,9 penalties a game and it might stop. Like anything in this life, if the wrong doers have no consequences, then why stop

It’s a good job the referees and the leagues agreed to clamp down on holding at corners and set pieces, really been successful

 

[Billysboots]

Do you think that’s a penalty?
He lets go before he gets in the box and Cunha decided to go down imo.
That’s a dive you would never get him down with that unless he chose to.

No. I thought it was soft when I saw it first hand, and then when I saw it on television.

But the actions of the Palace player allowed everything which followed.

 

[PaulMdj]

No. I thought it was soft when I saw it first hand, and then when I saw it on television.

But the actions of the Palace player allowed everything which followed.

Noooooo Billy! That’s like saying the player is entitled to go down.

 

[Slime]

Do you think that’s a penalty?
He lets go before he gets in the box and Cunha decided to go down imo.
That’s a dive you would never get him down with that unless he chose to.

Penalty and red card were the correct call.
I'd also have given Cunha a yellow for diving.
However, by going to ground he brought the ref's attention to the fact that he'd been pulled back.
The danger is that, if he'd stayed on his feet, play would merely have continued.
Players often go to groung to highlight the fact that a foul is being/has been committed.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Penalty and red card were the correct call.
I'd also have given Cunha a yellow for diving.
However, by going to ground he brought the ref's attention to the fact that he'd been pulled back.
The danger is that, if he'd stayed on his feet, play would merely have continued.
Players often go to groung to highlight the fact that a foul is being/has been committed.

That’s an interesting view - so players can now dive to over exaggerate any touch

At most it’s a yellow outside the box but it’s definitely a dive as soon as he got in the box

But it’s just another example of inconsistency within the refs

 

[Swango1980]

That’s an interesting view - so players can now dive to over exaggerate any touch

At most it’s a yellow outside the box but it’s definitely a dive as soon as he got in the box

But it’s just another example of inconsistency within the refs

Salah has done it for years

 

[irip]

I thought it was a penalty as the holding started outside the area but continued inside, which by the rules now means it’s a penalty.
I thought sending him off a bit harsh but can understand why the ref thought it was denying a goal scoring opportunity.