Match Day Thread Southampton v Aston Villa Saturday 30/1/2021 8pm Sky Sports

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Just looked again at the offside and am convinced VAR (Mike Dean) drew the lines in the wrong place. Danny's line should be at the seam of his sleeve not at the end. And the line on Matty's bum is way out of line with the edge of his body. It was on side.

Ralph has said previously the benefit of VAR is that you can't dispute the facts, but if they draw the line in the wrong place, it's a joke.
Trouble is it’s very subjective & a mm on the pass can make a few cms on the lines. These fine lines (including a marginal touch on a thigh before a deliberate handball) are dragging football down. If Var remains (as I’m sure it will) I don’t see any progress & we’ll just have to accept, even pizzle.
 
On a separate point from the obvious, what do we make of Ings since his injury? I thought he was very quiet yet again tonight.

Does he deserve to be our highest earning player of all time?
At 29 in the summer is he worth £30m?

Or does he just need more time to get back to his best?
Needs a few games to get sharp again imo
 
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I'd be inclined to agree if we look at his time with us, but we can't pretend injuries don't change players.

Obviously I am playing devils advocate here - but considering how desperate we want him to stay, and the (apparent) deal we have offered, I think he needs to get back to his best asap if he wants to be the highest earner in our history or even earn that top 4 move.

Lets look at tonight only. He still showed the two best moments of absolute class. The flick and assist fir the penalty and the oh so sexy ball the rough for Che’s chance that was saved.... I’ll hold the goal scorers, sniffing instinct back for now :)
 
Given that I'm such a VAR supporter (but not a Lee Mason supporter!), this evening hasn't been easy for me.

I was talking on here the other day about the wording of the offside law potentially justifying the Man City non-offside. But I just don't see where in the wording of the handball law it justifies our non-penalty. The bit about it deflecting off your body doesn't apply to deliberate handball. If it did, everytime the ball hits a defender's knee, they'd just grab the ball!

You went to a different referee school to Tom then :emoticon-0148-yes:
 
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Hate to bang this drum again... but the technology isn't that accurate to say with certainty when it's that close.

There's multiple frames you can stop on of someone playing the ball.
This so much. From one frame to the next is such a big jump
 
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You went to a different referee school to Tom then :emoticon-0148-yes:

It doesn't matter how many times I read the law, even if I was desperate to justify Mike Dean's decision. I just can't agree. The wording is clear as day to me that deliberate handball is an offence - regardless of any deflection first. And there is no way in my mind that it wasn't deliberate.
 
On twitter - Paddy Power just announced they have refunded (as a free bet) all pre-match singles on Southampton to win, AND the draw in Southampton v Aston Villa, after two controversial decisions went against the Saints in their 0-1 defeat.

Says it all really.

Is it true Mike Dean is officiating our game on Tuesday?
 
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On a separate point from the obvious, what do we make of Ings since his injury? I thought he was very quiet yet again tonight.

Does he deserve to be our highest earning player of all time?
At 29 in the summer is he worth £30m?

Or does he just need more time to get back to his best?
Personally thought he was poor and world have dragged him.ofc at HT with Walcott. Think Adams gave us more energy. Very unlike Ings performance. He was invisible, as was Walcott
 
On twitter - Paddy Power just announced they have refunded (as a free bet) all pre-match singles on Southampton to win, AND the draw in Southampton v Aston Villa, after two controversial decisions went against the Saints in their 0-1 defeat.

Says it all really.

Is it true Mike Dean is officiating our game on Tuesday?

Better ****ing hope not. I'll surrender before hand if he is. Useless twat will cost us again
 
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It doesn't matter how many times I read the law, even if I was desperate to justify Mike Dean's decision. I just can't agree. The wording is clear as day to me that deliberate handball is an offence - regardless of any deflection first. And there is no way in my mind that it wasn't deliberate.

The problem with the word "deliberate" is that unless a player catches and holds the ball you could argue that any other handball is accidental.

Was Cash's tonight deliberate? Maybe, he definitely moves towards the ball with his arm, but was this just a natural reaction to moving his leg to block the shot? In the slow mo it looks very much like he does, but also could be a "natural" movement that follows moving his leg to block the ball (and for me it does hit his thigh). The wording of the rule is wrong, as it has been for ages, you can't ever know if a handball is deliberate except in the most extreme examples or the player being completely honest about it
 
Here are the relevant bits of handball law from fa.com

Dean needs to answer for why he was unable to abide by the laws of football. Could it be any clearer?


It is an offence if a player:

  • deliberately touches the ball with their hand/arm, including moving the hand/arm towards the ball
  • scores in the opponents’ goal directly from their hand/arm, even if accidental, including by the goalkeeper
  • after the ball has touched their or a team-mate’s hand/arm, even if accidental, immediately:
    • scores in the opponents’ goal
    • creates a goal-scoring opportunity
  • touches the ball with their hand/arm when:
    • the hand/arm has made their body unnaturally bigger
    • the hand/arm is above/beyond their shoulder level (unless the player deliberately plays the ball which then touches their hand/arm
The above offences apply even if the ball touches a player’s hand/arm directly from the head or body (including the foot) of another player who is close.

Except for the above offences, it is not an offence if the ball touches a player’s hand/arm:

  • directly from the player’s own head or body (including the foot)
 
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Personally thought he was poor and world have dragged him.ofc at HT with Walcott. Think Adams gave us more energy. Very unlike Ings performance. He was invisible, as was Walcott

Yet still he gave us our two best moments of quality. That is why he is so important. Set up the “penalty” with a moment of genius, the through ball for Adams for his chance was sublime and he still poached the “equaliser” in the 92 minute.

I know he wasn’t at his best, but those three things are why I’d never drag him off.
 
Lets look at tonight only. He still showed the two best moments of absolute class. The flick and assist fir the penalty and the oh so sexy ball the rough for Che’s chance that was saved.... I’ll hold the goal scorers, sniffing instinct back for now :)

That flick :emoticon-0115-inlov
 
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