Recent content by Ryanj91

Jackson was that Lucky, he escaped all punishment! Not entirely sure what VAR was doing today. I can only assume it was broken. A red missed and 3rd goal should have been ruled out. Swings and roundabouts

I agree. Gordon has simply put his foot there to initiate contact to try and win a penalty. Now, we will see a lot more of these aimless attempts to win the ball and with the aim to get kicked instead.

The officials are included as part of the pitch. So the lino touching the ball with his hands makes no difference if the player was trying to do a trick corner?

Yet he didn't give a caution for a clear dive?

I'm pretty certain that would have been upgraded on review. Shocked it wasn't given in real time. The ref seemed cautious to give a caution.

City v Spurs, Haaland hit a referee and no one seemed to bat an eyelid (even on here!). No ban, no media coverage, no Webb and Owen in-depth analysis, nothing. A week later a ref gets assaulted. I know they aren't linked, but if you were to come down strong on players hitting a referee, it...

So it's ok for a player to hit a referee's hands in anger/frustration? I do find it weird that the forum isn't publicly annoyed by this, but were for Mitrovic.. strange that

No excuses for Haaland to lay hands on the referee though. Verbals, context some may forgive, but you cannot allow physical contact.

Haaland aggressively hit the ref too... Which no one seems to be talking about. Guess he will get away with it and it tells grassroots that it's fine to smack a refs' arm when annoyed.

Haaland and Emerson(Spurs) for the initial incident... Nothing for the whole city squad surrounding the referee. Also, anyone notice that Haaland aggressively hit the ref's hands/arms down with a lot of force? Yet, not a red card. Worse than Mitrovic in my opinion. That's honestly a worse...

Interesting that not one of the 11 city players surrounding the referee giving him abuse got cautioned...

The lack of offside shows you how bad the VAR decision was in my opinion. VAR states incorrect law as going by Gabriel shoulder. AVAR tried to correct him, but VAR just says yeah yeah yeah and stops the AVAR explaining who then changes mid sentence to not conclusive evidence. VAR has locked...

I don't see how this matters. He was offside during the whole process no? Could have taken the first possible time and last possible time and he would have been offside. Two hands into the back as Gabriel was just about to head it.... That's always a foul.. Punching/elbow to the head not...

Rather than punching his head, he had clattered his head which is just as a foul. If a defender did that, it's a penalty. I still do not understand the protection keepers get. Cucurella got the caution for the fouls as you can see the ref making the hand gestures to previous fouls. If pleading...

Few things that I am a bit surprised about from this game: 1) Tiago's challenge - ran from distance and 1 almost 2 footed lunge in on Martinelli. Xhaka v City and he got sent off for an identical tackle. 2) Cucurella, getting a yellow for his persistent fouling. But runs to the lino and shouts...