UEFA Champions League/Europa League 3/4/5 April *** Spoilers ***

fez said:
Thought that was a bit of a strange penalty to give. It happened nowhere near the cross and there is always a foul in the box when a corner is taken, they are usually only given if it relates to the location of the ball.
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A foul is a foul and the correct decision was made :confused:
 
Nate75 said:
Funny time to start to give them though...

No consistency.
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For all we know that ref gives them a lot, but referring has never been consistent and it won't be getting any better, personally I'd rather see those given and not too fussed when it happens.
 
Purdy said:
A foul is a foul and the correct decision was made :confused:
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I don't agree at all I'm afraid, it happens every time in the box from both sides so who should win the foul. I can almost guarantee that there will have been barca players fouling AC players during that corner. Every single corner / free kick into the box would be either a penalty or free kick if you penalised everything in the box. Refs pretty much only ever give them when its related to the location of the ball for a reason.
 
Actually agreeing with Purdy, it could be something this particular ref is strict on. Just because PL refs are wimps and don't give fouls like that doesn't mean other refs don't either.
 
Two penalties for Barcelona! Don't see any argument for not giving the second.

Hopefully players watching this will see that penalties are given for shirt pulling and hopefully more referee's clamp down on it.
 
In other news, from the brief highlights I have seen of the bayern vs marseille game it could be a very different score. Poor defending on both goals from marseille and they have had a few really good opportunities to score but hit it straight at Neuer.
 
I think puyol was fouling on the penalty too so it was harsh.

Barca do seem to benefit from refs in big games - at least it wasn't from a dive this time though.

Milan need to get seedorf off, he's looked very poor tonight.
 
The second penalty for Barca shouldn't have stood. The ref was well aware of all the shirt holding/pulling and yet he chose to ignore it until the corner was taken. Yes, it is a penalty but it shouldn't have been. The ref should have given Nesta a yellow card and ordered the corner to be taken again.

Penalty? No. For me this is logic and not something that referees in England or in Zimbabwe have different rules on.
 
Well, they failed to show a single reverse angle on the second penalty decision, its VERY common for players to step between the ref and the other player, grab hold of his shirt, on the ref's blindside then call the ref to see him grabbing your shirt.

The cynic in me wonders if Busquet's is pulling Nesta's shirt and the plan was for Puyol to turn and shove them over but hope the ref gives the penalty, because it looked so deliberate. Without seeing if Busquet's had his shirt or not it's difficult to know how fair it was.

In terms of consistent ref, that isn't very useful, ref's need to be both consistent WITH OTHER REF's, and across the season. 99/100 ref's wouldn't have given the penalty for that, so it was an inconsistent decision, if that ref gives them more often is irrelevant, the goal is similar ref decisions in any game, they all generally ignore one type of foul, they all have to.
 
You mean 99/100 English referee's wouldn't have given that? I'm sure you don't mean 99% of all referee's as you don't watch all of them week in week out.

Shirt pulling does need to be clamped down on, doing so in the biggest club games in Europe is certainly sending message out.

It was a foul and the correct decision was made, I take the consistency point, but that's what people want all the time of all referee's, I think this referee has been pretty consistent so far and pretty good.
 
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