The foul is given from where the contact ends. Doesn't quite work when kicking somebody, but if they hold your shirt from the half way line and you go over in the box, then it is indeed a pen.
I honestly thought the football of the mid 2000s would be as bad as it got when John Terry was just making goalkeeper saves with his hands, United were having goals not given against them that were 2 yards over the line, and Gerrard got penalties...
Think we hoped to get the Villa Grealish as opposed to the City one, seems like we're seeing the beginnings of the Everton Grealish.
Always liked him as a player and a character, but jeez, I'm on the turn 🤩
The contrast with the Grimsby manager was stark. Grimsby were having the time of their lives throughout the shoot out. Every time they scored a pen they seemed more amused than anything else ...
I'd consider myself pretty hard left economically and wooly/liberal lefty socially.
I grew up in Boston, which to the uninitiated is a small market town in South Lincolnshire. It's an hour to the nearest city - Peterborough or Lincoln, take...
Saddest thing about it all is that deep down many of these folk are angry frustrated people desperate for community, fed up with visible decline, wishobg for a sense of certainty in a very uncertain, fragmented and often unfair world.
One can't...
Insecurity. The generation that has nothing but fed lies that they can become rich and climb the capitalist ladder whilst being told they're a constant disappointment from their boomer parents who earned their wealth by doing nothing but waking...