Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [8th - 10th November 2019]

One of the Liverpool players should just slap Sterling and see if anything is given. I reckon they could today.
 
omnomnom said:
No...Silva handballed it. I mean how do people not see that?

Chief sports writer for the times:

Re the Alexander-Arnold handball, under the new law that should have been handball by Bernardo Silva a second before so maybe it's immaterial whether TAA's should have been given or not #LIVMCI
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Silva was very close to player who struck the ball. Arnold wasn’t.

City need a world class centre half. Their fullbacks aren’t a patch on Liverpool’s either. City have been wasteful up front, they just don’t seem the same team as the previous couple of years.
 
Colonel_Klinck said:
Silva was very close to player who struck the ball. Arnold wasn’t.

City need a world class centre half. Their fullbacks aren’t a patch on Liverpool’s either. City have been wasteful up front, they just don’t seem the same team as the previous couple of years.
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Yes but it then diverts and would have been a penalty and therefore would be overturned.
 
manic111 said:
Well on the basis that you think any contact is a foul, Sterling should have been sent off for that elbow
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I don’t think any contact should be a foul, if it was up to me we’d still have the likes of enforcers on the pitch. Todays game is today’s game though, it’s soft.
 
McBain said:
I don’t think any contact should be a foul, if it was up to me we’d still have the likes of enforcers on the pitch. Todays game is today’s game though, it’s soft.
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The problem for me is that the vast majority of fouls aren't enough to knock a player down, but they should be given as fouls as they throw a player off their stride and effectively impede them. However, if a player stays on their feet the ref never gives a free kick even if he loses the ball, so it forces players to go down for relatively soft offences, which makes it totally unclear if it's actually a foul or not.

Nobody in a position of power has tried to clarify when something is a foul and how far towards actually knocking a player over that needs to be. It's therefore down to a ref's subjectivity, and I totally agree with you that this leads to inconsistency. However, until those rules are fixed VAR is of no help for those decisions
 
Funny thing is, for all his gobbing off about how people shouldnt be abusive to others, over the years Sterling really has struck me as a bad tempered little man.
 
Fabinho's the type of player we've been crying our for since Mascherano left us and the type of player Emre Can thought he was but wasn't.

Edit: Love the fact he's also got a nasty side and isn't afraid to boot someone to slow them down.
 
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