Exactly! Benteke felt contact, knew he couldn't score from where he was and so he hit the deck, theatrically. It's what most strikers will do nowadays, unfortunately.
Ah, please, my brother. Don't go down the path trodden by Bambi. There is so much homo-erotic fantasising going on on this site, that I wouldn't be surprised if it comes up on Google when a certain type of user types in the words "pink pound."
There was minimal contact. Benteke was almost at the byline. No way he could score from There. The Palace player slid in a bit recklessly, but basically missed. Small contact around Benteke's knee area and down he went.
Well, if 'Pool win by cheating, where they are, I'm not that worried. Would be worse if they had any chance of finishing top 4. They are cheating to get in the Europa. That's their level.
... I wouldn't normally do this ...but it's 'you're' ... otherwise it appears as if a Southampton fan is attempting to purloin some bread from a Scouser ... which would be novel because you'd normally expect it to be the other way round
Benteke had the foot he was still pushing off taken away, I dunno if he could've stayed on his feet, but if you do stay on your feet, 99/100 times the ref won't give a penalty. Kane, on the other hand, was jumping over Coquelins legs then purposefully let legs drop so that he would get fouled and get coquelin a red. If coquelins legs hadn't been there Kane would've landed on his face. there's no condemnation for the latter because "Diving, Cheating, Begging...." is part of football, hopefully the introduction of video technology will put and end to it.
I don't see what video tech would achieve on this. We've all seen it a million times and can't agree.
.. in rugby the ref tends to narrow down the video ref input by stipulating what he wants judged eg "any reason for me not to award the try" ... that would probably work in football too ... in this case ... "was there really sufficiemnt contact for the big lump to flop over like an excessively dunked digestive biscuit? ... " ... the other thing that is useful is that the ref can ask the video judge to look at something pending a next break in play ... .i.e "did the Eric Dier pull back on Giroud warrant a yellow? .. " - . early bath for Eric from the next break .. at least then you'd start getting some consistency in decisions ... e.g Danny Simpson sent off for us at Arsenal for far less of a tug onsaid cheating Frenchman .. I'd welcome it - if only for the prospect of it making simulation far more risky for those serial offenders ...
For me, Oliver got one right and two wrong. Coquelin he got right, red card. Dier and Bellerin he got wrong. They both should have walked, and didn't. Basically, if Coquelin had to go then so did both of them.
I don't think he had any option with Coquelin, an off the ground late lunge is asking for a card of some colour, what Kane did to make sure of contact is irrelevant, even if he'd jumped over and run on, Coquelin would've been lucky not to get a card. The others probably should have, but they weren't quite as blatant a cardable offence. As we used to say playing kick-off 2, "if you're offering the legs, I'll take them" (although sometimes it backfied and you were injured)
What hasn't been mentioned is that we won despite playing with 10 men after Milner getting sent off for 2 perfectly good tackles.
