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Cannot wait for Franks post match presser if it stays like this 
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.Greenlizard0 PL & Championship Football Thread ** spoilers ** [26th - 27th Dec 2020]
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You shouldn't need to but unfortunately officials won't call fouls unless a player goes down which is why Tierney goes down easily.
It's soft but it's a foul and braindead defending from James.
Cannot wait for Franks post match presser if it stays like this
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Pretty clear dive, idiots running VAR fail again
Completely agree, with both your opinion on fouls and the penaltyYou shouldn't need to but unfortunately officials won't call fouls unless a player goes down which is why Tierney goes down easily.
It's soft but it's a foul and braindead defending from James.
More than Jota
He's just a German Aaron Lennon
Thats a hell of a strike from Xhaka.
How anyone can say thats a penalty is beyond me though. A foul is when a players actions impede you illegally in some way. Its not when he makes any contact. If he touches you and that doesn't make any difference to your balance, movement, gait or ability to strike the ball then how is it a foul? That was 100% a dive. When you are looking for the slightest touch a few seconds before he goes down as some justification you are clutching at straws.
How anyone can say thats a penalty is beyond me though. A foul is when a players actions impede you illegally in some way. Its not when he makes any contact. If he touches you and that doesn't make any difference to your balance, movement, gait or ability to strike the ball then how is it a foul? That was 100% a dive. When you are looking for the slightest touch a few seconds before he goes down as some justification you are clutching at straws.
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Xhaka's once a season or two pile driver card played. 90% of the time Luiz will take those free kicks despite scoring from that range... once or twice his whole career.
You dont need to floor someone for it to be a foul. If you want on that then theyd never be given.
You dont even need to make contact lmao. You cannot kick someone...regardless of whether it would floor someone or not.
Mendy isnt very good is he.
You dont even need to make contact lmao. You cannot kick someone...regardless of whether it would floor someone or not.
Mendy isnt very good is he.
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Someone speaking sense. It was stupid from the defender, he brought it on himself.
Any contact isn't a foul but I'm sure the rules specifically say that kicking (or tripping) or attempting to kick (or trip) is a foul. James kicks Tierney. It wasn't a massive kick but it's still a foul.
People get so hung up about the consequence of the action rather than the action itself. It doesn't matter whether Tierney is completely unimpeded, stumbles or his ankle snaps - none of that changes what James done and it's what James does that makes it a foul or not.