Neither of the two handballs they showed on match of the day were pens. The first, was it Delap, jumped his hand was out from jumping, EVERY player does this bar none, he didn't move his hand at all from the header, to the contact, whats more is, it was a weak ass header, going straight at the keeper.
Move your hand to the ball after the ball has started moving, penalty, I for one would have given it even with accidental handball if say, it was going straight in the goal, had he been on the line, or it stopped it going directly to a player who would have had a fantastic chance to score, neither were the case, no penalty for me at all.
Same with upson, firstly, he doesn't move has arm, secondly, his arms are where EVERY PLAYER would have their arms, thirdly, it hits his body and then goes up, and it only hits his upper arm/shoulder, AND the contact from the body was either taking it straight out of play anyway, or directing a very weak ball straight into the keepers arms, either way the "legal" contact stopped any danger from the pass, the rest was accidental, and prevented nothing for Liverpool.
As before, that happens on the line to stop a penalty, or that happened on the edge of the box and the ball was otherwise going to someone with a clear scoring chance and maybe, as it was, no way a penalty.
The carragher, its classic case of stupid CB syndrome, can we or the ref tell if Caragher put all his strength, locked his arm and dragged him down, or if he just stupidly put an arm around him but with no strength and it was 2% contact, 98% dive, no...... how can you be sure........ don't put your arm around the player for utterly no reason at all.
Same happened in that other game, Kenny might want them to be the wrong decisions but they were right in that other game with loads of supposed penalties, and right today. They wouldn't have lost if, Henderson or Suarez had finished pretty easy chances, or if Caragher engaged his brain at all and just didn't put his arm around the player.
Bolton, so so bad defensively, Knight so often got caught way wide of the goal, protecting a pointless area, leaving Cahill and Boyata to defend the area actually infront of the goal against normally 3-4 players.
Kevin Davies, not malacious, just a big hulking clumsy idiot with no footballing skill whatsoever, worst "fouler" in the league every single year pretty much for 7-8 years, normally close to twice as many fouls as the next player, he had 30 odd more fouls than Tiote didn't he. He rarely does yellow/red card tackles(though could have gotten both yesterday) but for persistant fouling he should get a red in basically every single game he plays.
Why is it Carlton Cole does the same thing, but wins the ball more often, yet gets fouls called against him and gets yellow cards for it, but Davies does it every game, every year, with zero punishment?
(i know, it's just one of those that you can't see working
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