WHU v Saints 'highlights'

[Professor]

Interesting to try to spot the rights and wrongs of the penalty decision. The highlights don't show the Lallana dive, probably as that's a lowlight, but they do show what looks like a handball by Hooiveld just before the penalty was given to West Ham. The fall by Noble for which the penalty was given has all the hallmarks of a dive but so what, its what most players from most clubs do now and is making a mockery of the game.

 

The sending-off did look justified. The WHU players wcan be seen as the more aggresive in responding to Sharp's complaint about the dive and Taylor certainly seems to push or hit Sharp. What does NOT happen, which Allerdyce claimed, is that Sharp did not go down holding his face or make any move to have Taylor sent-off. Allerdyce was actaully far too far away to see anything at all. So it was Allerdyce who came out of that with most discredit, lying to the media about what he'd seen.

 

But ultimately, the fault lies with FIFA failing to stop the penalty kick being far too great a reward for an incident in the area, which is encouraging all this ridiculous play-acting and is ruining games of football by turning in wrong results based on penalty goals that never should have been.

[pingwing]

Yep, highlights don't show Vaz Te going down at every moment Richardson took the ball off him or beat him to the ball. Should have been sent of for about 9 attempted to get Richardson booked, the worst being about 20 mins into the first half where he goes down because there was nothing else for him to do other than look stupid.

 

Adkins was nice and frank about the pen decision, a flat out nope never was one and I'm ammused the fa don't have a go at him because he talks like an adult instead of crying.

 

Big fat Sam should well be shown up in the run in as his teams seem very very silly, playing for rubbish fouls and not really playing football is not good

[Lazlo78]

No extended highlights on Saints Player this time?