Today's Football 2015 / 16

[Maxwell]

How is that not a penalty

 

[Eggs]

With my Ipswich connection I've always rated him. How Town could do with him now!

...yep, I remember you highlighting him.

 

[Toast]

Lawrenson's comments on the BBC page read like a spoof Twitter account.

Why do they let that drunk horse have an opinion?

Lawro calling Pienaar, Steven Penis..

Was the highlight of the MOTD season though mate.

 

[ijjysmith]

One of the best reffing performances I've ever seen.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Leicester winning the league would harm the "brand"

You know the shouts are going to come mate

 

[Furey1878]

Vardy has caused this.

I think he's also somewhat caused them being 7 points clear so...

 

[RomanReigns]

Come on you pearly kings and queens!

you gonna be blowing bubbles tonight mate? or drinking them

 

[Jamiednm]

Leicester still guaranteed at least another 3 points because they still have a fixture against us, so Spurs still pretty much need to win all of their games (and LC need to drop more) to seal the deal.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Absolute desolation at the King Power

Those fans are GUTTED

 

[tsubaki]

Which I'd hazard a guess at 50% of all penalties being the case.

The striker is perfectly entitled to put himself in a situation to get a penalty. If the defender collides with him, the ref has the decision to make whether it is one or not - but it isn't simulation.

I think people are just confused and think simulation is anything that is trying to get a penalty - it's not. Simulation is solely where the striker makes an action to try and get a penalty where minimal contact, if any, is made.

There's more than enough contact and reasonable doubt for this one on Vardy to be waved away, and given the referee should be 100% sure before calling it a dive, then he's had a complete howler.

It isn't, though. The laws of the game are quite clear:

• attempts to deceive the referee by feigning injury or pretending to have been fouled (simulation)

Now given that everyone on the thread seemingly agrees that Vardy did that in order to try and get a penalty (ie: to make the ref think that he had been fouled), I am a bit bemused as to why you think it doesn't fit the definition of simulation as the rules of the game state it (and not your own definition).

 

[Tubey]

Serious questions need to be asked of this ref after the game. Some shocking decisions.

Strange how it benefits two London clubs isn't it?

 

[Eggs]

.....a wobble would be interesting with us having to go and play there.

 

[Mozza1987]

It's why it's not a foul.

It's like someone just running straight into a player after knocking it round them. Ref has to decide if it's foul or a dive to win a foul.

Ronaldo used to it all the time when at United. Throw his arms in the air. Refs never books him for it.

How is that the same? Running into someone in that situation just happens because the defender can't just disappear, no one is trying to con the ref. Here is trying to cheat, simple as that. Deserves to be sent off. Football doesn't need that sort of thing.

 

[canuckblue]

Which I'd hazard a guess at 50% of all penalties being the case.

The striker is perfectly entitled to put himself in a situation to get a penalty. If the defender collides with him, the ref has the decision to make whether it is one or not - but it isn't simulation.

I think people are just confused and think simulation is anything that is trying to get a penalty - it's not. Simulation is solely where the striker makes an action to try and get a penalty where minimal contact, if any, is made.

There's more than enough contact and reasonable doubt for this one on Vardy to be waved away, and given the referee should be 100% sure before calling it a dive, then he's had a complete howler.

It was clearly a dive. He leaned into the defender to initiate the contact, then followed with a two-footed takeoff. Deserved yellow for simulation.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Disgraceful performance this. Moss is an absolute joke. He's an utter mess physically in terms of his chronic weight issues never mind him being the biggest corrupt fraud outside of clattenberg who at least can burst into a jog.