I’ve looked at it a lot too, however no matter what angle you see it from, you can’t make out a Liver bird on the shirt so clearly no penalty.
Just watched the Sky highlights for the second time and noticed a man in the wheelchair behind McCarthy's goal in the first half. Lives somewhere near me and I used to see him at Newport games and at Southampton. Still a season ticket holder at St Marys...makes me ashamed that I can't cross the Solent and yet he makes it to Leicester. Top fan.
That Vardy dive in isolation doesn't bother me, but the fact the media have not cottoned on to his diving ways really irritates me. Certain players are lambasted over and over for it, while some are ok - because they play with passion. Vardy is a thug and a cheat.
He’s on my least liked players list, along with Carroll, Herrera, Noble and many others that I can’t think of right now.
Whilst it was a dive, he was preempting the tackle and going down, on my stream I didn't see him make any sort of appeal for a pen when the challenge didn't come in. I guess that is why nobody has mentioned it.
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A few of you obviously don’t get on the MOTD train when we win. They mentioned it and pointed out the flawed logic behind how he can’t be punished, because he didn’t successfully con the ref
Some decent coverage on Sky Goals on Sunday with Michail Antonio as a guest. Worth a look if you can find a replay but no mention of the diving problems. Valery did catch Stillwell but only after making contact with the ball, Stillwells reaction was a bit nasty too, but that's probably because it hurt! The second yellow was always going to happen but it was a soft challenge that got it. In hindsight Ralph should have subbed him before it happened, hypothetical now.
Different set of rules for Liverpool. The thing is, Tom has already told us that referees treat games of " bigger magnitude" differently from the rest so it's never going to change.