Is it just me or do the top team in the Championship always get a ridiculous amount of them? I mean, I know you could argue that the top team is going to be the most attacking and therefore more likely to be fouled in the box, but bloody hell... Southampton topped the leaderboards last season with 10 penalties - Crystal Palace have already had 9 this year! Obviously I realise if you're fouled in the box so much then you should get the deserved amount of penalties... but it does seem that certain teams get a hell of a lot more than others. We've been a good attacking team this season and haven't had a single one. Palace had consecutive 3-2 and 1-0 wins over Cardiff & Bolton - 3 of the 4 goals being penalties. That's 6 "free" points. Free may not be the right word but I'm sure you understand where I'm coming from. Being at Uni I haven't made it to a game since Bolton, so... Is it just us? Do we not go down easily enough, have we not had enough diving lessons or have we simply not had reason to appeal for penalties this season?
Yesterday's programme said Palace had had 7 penalties. They then got another 3 last night. Is that not 10 now?
Cause and effect? Do the team that are top of the league get given a lot of penalties, or does the team that's given the most penalties end up at the top of the league.
We seemed to get quite a few at home last season. Some more dubious than others. Think they were a large proportion of Fryatt's 16 goals.
Palace had 2 penalties last saturday(scored one and missed one) and last night had 3(scored 2 and missed one) but were they all justified ?
I think it's probably down to the fact that the best teams usually have good, tricky wide players and forwards, who not only score/provide a lot of goals from open-play but also win their fair share of penalties besides
Whilst I agree to an extent I still find it a bit of a stretch that with our attacking play we've had 0 and they've had 9 (or 10 like you said, I don't know)
I agree, but I can't help thinking that for example Leeds would be at least 3 places lower in the table if their penalty areas didn't extend 5 yards beyond the pitch markings. (think it was Barnsley they beat due to one like the one against us)
We got 3 penalties all last season and Fryatt missed one. We haven't had more than 3 or 4 penalties in a year for ages. J-D is right, there are teams that just get loads. Mark Noble seemed to be scoring every week last season but it was just on account of being West Ham's penalty taker really. Leeds get a **** load, West Ham still do, Palace seem to be the current team getting them and for some reason Stoke get loads too.
The bloody cheating Shrek lookalike. You can't take 2 touches on a pelanty (as Chrissy Waddle calls em)
I've thought for a while that we never seem to get awarded any penalties - I remember against Blackpool we should've had 2, but given none. We've had quite a few other penalty shouts turned down too - so it's not like we haven't been in a position to get a penalty, it's just that refs never seem interested in giving them to us... but like has been mentioned; we've been awarded no penalties this season whilst Leeds have been awarded 2 that weren't even in the box!
I reckon Prossy would be good at them but from our starting XI probably Simpson. It always seems like for us to get a penalty it has to be absolutely blatantly obvious and without question, as if the refs are briefed to only give us a penalty if they're absolutely certain, whereas on FLS and MOTD other teams get them regularly for 'debatable' incidents.
I said Simpson simply because he took one for us before (Sheff Utd away on boxing day), which I don't think Koren ever has. In fact, I think Koren was playing at the time but Simpson was preferred to him.
