Match Day Thread NUFC vs Arsenal

The point of it was because defenders (John Terry a classic) deliberately made themselves big using their arms to block shots and crosses and would look all innocent as they “accidentally “ handled the ball hence the new rule where they judge if the arm is in a natural position or not.

 

Fabian Schar last season v Southampton springs to mind when everyone was saying the sending off was correct despite no contact made

 

We all remember incidents which haven’t been dealt with by the referee in terms of cards being dealt with by the authorities after the game. Why is that not happening for this assault?

 

Because it would not benefit Arsenal

 

When people slide (like Gabriel) their arms up come.

When you jump - your arms again are used to create momentum - even sprinting requires arm motion. Its "unnatural" to do anything athletic with your arms stuck to your sides.

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The Law has been there for many seasons now
it was first introduce to stop the likes of John Terry sliding in and collecting the ball as he slid in
as he so often did
the law has been finely tuned ever since

 

The judgement of natural position is taken on an incident by incident basis and everyone won’t always agree with the judgment but it does overall cutout the John Terry style of defending.

 

I remember one game when John Terry slid about 10 yards with ball nicely tucked under his forearm

 

Arsenal should have had a penalty imo. Pope got lucky with the slightest of flick. But he wiped him completely out. If that was against us I want a penalty all day long.

The incident on Woltemade. The punch. Yes I think VAR should have looked at that and a red card shown.

The hand ball. It took the slightest of deflections of Gabriel’s foot but that’s not enough in my mind not to give the penalty. As such should have been one.

They could say they got shafted once. We got shafted twice.