I am not having a go at you King and I respect your opinion, but using Peter Walton who was a useless ref and is even worse as a'decision reviewer' on TV to support the fact that a decision was correct is akin to using the Daily Mail to confirm that Tory party policy is correct. In my opinion it was a 50/50 decision and if the ref hadn't given it VAR would not have intervened and Peter Walton would have agreed with the ref.
One problem with the Laws of the Game is that blatant deliberate treating goes almost unpunished whereas a genuine 50:50 challenge can lead to a penalty depending on whether the ref sees it as a foul.
If that is a clear penalty then the Law should be changed because the proper punishment for a mistimed challenge anywhere on the pitch should not be a penalty kick. Football is a contact sport and if you mistime a challenge it ought to be a foul but an indirect free kick should be the result. Penalties should be reserved for deliberate fouls.
Except in the penalty area. If the same thing happens to lord Harry in your next game will you just dismiss it as a "mistimed challenge"?
Cliff Jones (now 84!) was just on BBC Radio 4 with his wife, Joan, talking about Wales and the '58 WC. Great stories from a real legend and lovely couple.
It’s not the same to foul someone in the penalty box as anywhere else on the pitch though. A mistimed challenge or not, it’s a foul and it’s a penalty.
My mother's saying that Wales being 0-0 with Iran is torture I may have mentioned to her that if she wants to see torture, either support Spurs or watch the first two Hellraiser films (aka the only good Hellraiser films)
Dem iz the rules. The only issue of contention for me (once a penalty is deemed so) is reasonable punishment of the perpetrator. Card or no card, and if the former what colour.
Joe Allen at fault for both goals: his tepid clearance set up the first, and he was caught out on the break for the second Now to tell my mother who he plays for...
