Former referee Gallagher said Toon's penalty was correct decision and our winner should have been disallowed! Double standards methinks!
as Didn´t think theirs was a pen. but have to say Dave, that I thought the same as Gallagher about ours when I saw it - but if you look at the replay, NO Newcastle players appeal, so make of that what you will.
Well, I think they were similar types of handball, so either it should have been no penalty and goal, or penalty and no goal. Personally I don't think either were deliberate, but they were quite obvious, and I think that's where the problem lies. Human nature I think would tend to equate obvious with deliberate.
Certainly agree with you RBF, what I failed to point out was he' dismissed two cases of handball in the Leicester win, which were far more obvious than O'Neil and Howson, and declared them not penalties because they weren't deliberate. One prevented a definite goal and the other prevented a dangerous cross. Now you tell me how our two handballs could possibly have been deliberate? Here's the article! http://www.skysports.com/football/n...mpton-penalty-for-handball-against-leicester?
Especially compared to cheating Bournemouth who managed about 15 in the Championship and continued that run...
I am still smarting from the Jerome over head kick - performed by Rooney et al would have been allowed and had Sheararse in raptures
Awarded one, conceded 8. Only Sunderland and surprisingly West Ham are with us on 1 penalty awarded, although they've conceded fewer. Leicester top the table with 10 penalties awarded, 2 conceded. Nobody else has been awarded more than 5 penalties. Source: http://www.myfootballfacts.com/Premier_League_Penalty_Statistics.html
RE Leicester, that seems to correlate with Leicester being top of that 'Ref Review' league I posted earlier.
The Ref Review panel this week judged that Delaney's challenge on Jarvis should have been a penalty. Like MotD pundits, they felt that there was no attempt to play the ball by Delaney. Decisions like that could cost us our PL status. http://www.teamtalk.com/news/ref-review-the-incorrect-decisions-from-week-33?
If you have not seen it the table of benefit/loss makes intersting reading - guess who is top (as if you couldn't guess)?
As F*cking always. Shame it gives us none of the points we need and deserve from all these decisions. I recon if you have a certain amount of these decisions that were decided were wrong, you should be given a point or 3. Every 5 key decisions like penalty's not given judged as wrong, you should get a point compensation.
...or we should just introduce in-game reviews so we get the decisions correct the first time around. It really can't arrive fast enough.
We've been through this before, I fear, but it really wouldn't slow it down that much at all. It takes literally seconds to get the decision for if the ball has crossed the goal line. Why would it take significantly longer to establish if a player was offside or if the ball has struck an arm?
Incident happens, await the confirmation, decision made, players surround the ref and complain anyway. Footballers aren't as disciplined as rugby players. They don't just accept decisions. There will still be the same ruckus.
RE the underlined above, exactly! They do it anyway, so you may as well actually get the decision right!
What I mean is, the players will do that, after the awaiting confirmation, reviewing footage, giving the message to the ref. So having this technology, one of the pros was kind of "the right decision will be made, so wont slow the game down coz the players wont be surrounding the ref complaining" but the review will still add time to every decision. Once it's implemented as well, if the players know it's usable they will appeal for it every time something goes against them. By the way, I'm not against it. I'd love it, as we get f*cked over every Premiership season coz refs feel pressure to grant decisions to the bigger clubs. They assume it's easier to screw over "little Norwich" coz no papers or pundits would kick up any fuss. That's not just us, I mean teams like Burnely, Blackpool, etc teams who come up for a season and go back down.
