2025/26 James Tarkowski

[TheBigIguana]

His body is already moving towards the direction even before the ball was hit and it hit him within a second, again how is it deemed as enough time to react. You simply can’t undo a dive within such timeframe.

If it’s not enough time Tarkowski is done as a professional footballer

 

[Street end man]

Thought he was immense tonight. Gutted he is now blamed when VAR cheated us once more.
By current laws of the game that was not a penalty.....and never has been. John Terry was virtually a goalie for Chelsea.

 

[Parker]

Got too many arms for my liking.

Don't like my centre half's having arms in this day and age.

 

[MaximusEvertonius]

I’m not upset with Tarks. We’re a better side with him and thought he played big tonight .

 

[TheBigIguana]

I still think it’s a penalty but that aside he’s a great player to have in the team. No complaints about him as a player.

Hugely negative defender who needs replacing

 

[Street end man]

Hugely negative defender who needs replacing

Yet for me he's arguably our best.
Both blues with vastly differing takes on it..

 

[mccole]

Every game a silly mistake creeps in

His position needs to be closely looked at

 

[Zezti]

Found the PGMOL® Approved Everton home kit for this season

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

Clear as day, his instinct is to turn himself away to the left so that the ball doesn’t strike his arm. There’s no intention to play the ball illegally so never a pen IMO.
That referee is a dirty little inept gee bag who will be at the forefront of lots of dubious decisions this season once again.

That’s the thing - supposedly the referee didn’t have anything to do with the call. There needs to be an explanation given about what happened.

 

[Lanolin]

I thought it was a fairly obvious pen myself, not cast iron but one you’d expect to be given. It travelled a long way before it hit his arm, it’s not like it was a mad ricochet he couldn’t avoid.

 

[Rooney_Tunes]

Referee was awful all game and such a home ref
Not a pen
Gave them a corner when James missed
Didn’t give us a corner first half when the ball was yards out of play
Missed about six free kicks on Ndiaye and Dewsbury Hall

I don't think they 'missed' anything.

 

[Shibbywiggles]

I don't think they 'missed' anything.

I like to think they’re incompetent instead of corrupt
Perhaps I’m naive

 

[Shibbywiggles]

Considering how kopites and neutrals will have enjoyed that result and love to stick the knife in on us AND considering how Carragher and Neville already tried to sway public opinion on their analysis last night, this public poll on the sky sports app says it all

 

[gixerk6]

Referee was awful all game and such a home ref
Not a pen
Gave them a corner when James missed
Didn’t give us a corner first half when the ball was yards out of play
Missed about six free kicks on Ndiaye and Dewsbury Hall

Yeah before the goal there was a double team on one of our players which should have been a free kick to us but was waved away and they got the turnover and the ball ended up down our end and the goal resulted

 

[catcherintherye]

I thought it was a fairly obvious pen myself, not cast iron but one you’d expect to be given. It travelled a long way before it hit his arm, it’s not like it was a mad ricochet he couldn’t avoid.

I saw Sutton's take that it's an outrage and it's not that.

It's one of them that according to the laws, I can't see how it's a pen as his arm is not in an unnatural position, and he's not making himself bigger.

But the eye test would be it probably is. It looks very odd. For what it's worth I think it looks odd because he's trying to block a fairly tame, deflected shot from which is a stupid thing to do, not necessarily because I think he's trying g to handball it.

I'm not sure VAR should overturn, as it's not a huge clanger (either way). I'm disappointed the ref gave it, because he clearly cant see and I can't see how the linesman can see either. But unless the ref has specifically asked VAR "is his arm in an unnatural position/making himself bigger" I cant see how they can overturn it.

I can also sort of see why a common sense view would be if you jump towards making a block of a shot from 15 yards away and it hits your arm that would be a foul though.