Caporegime
It’s a pen all day long in the modern game.
The Emirates FA Cup 3rd Round ** Spoilers ** [4th - 8th January 2024]
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Caporegime
Nuh uh, put him off balance. He could have gone down a few seconds later and it would still have been a penalty!
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Went down like an 8 year old girl 
Caporegime
I mean, yes ultimately. Unless you want to be pedantic about it never being a dive if there is contact. The contact was minimal and there is not a chance that was enough to take him off his feet.
Caporegime
Sky had a price boost on 16+ shots on target, just came in at 14/1 
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Caporegime
No. A penalty should be for something concrete. Something where a defender has at least almost certainly denied a goalscoring opportunity or done something that is a clear foul. That was neither.
I know that if you don't go down you don't get the decision 95% of the time but that doesn't mean that if you go down and there is contact it should be a penalty.
I don't know if you can be giving out yellows when there is contact but its clearly a dive but you certainly don't have to give a penalty.
Caporegime
If you watched Rashfords highlights from this game you would think he had scored a few and waltzed the game and the hightlights just missed his goals. Hes been strutting around like Messi all night.
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No team photo infront of the 7 thousand who travelled all that way?
Caporegime
It was poor finishing ultimately. We should have won that by 3-4 goals
Thought we played pretty well for the most part but Wigan put up little fight in any area of the pitch.
Thought we played pretty well for the most part but Wigan put up little fight in any area of the pitch.
Caporegime
Thank you for that lesson on penalties
I'm not sure what you are saying about yellows. Refs reasonably regularly don't give a penalty when they think a player has made an absolute meal out of something in the box and they also don't give a yellow for a dive or simulation.
To be clear. No it shouldn't have been a penalty. Bruno probably shouldn't get a yellow because the current way the game is played means that if you do what he did, you usually get a penalty and there was contact. He was playing the game that we have created.
