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I've just watched the highlights and would say the West Brom goal was definitely offside, the sending off was justified in today's climate and the 'penalty', although soft, would have been given nine times out of ten.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman
A draw was just about the right result in a poor-quality game.
You've got it spot on. Imagine the reaction if the penalty had been awarded, Pack would have been slaughtered, particularly so soon after Bacuna's debacle.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman
Townsend (and Ishmael) may have expected a penalty. He didn't deserve one. But he certainly deserved an Oscar!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dorcus
What do you think Packs reasoning was for putting his hands on the WBA players shoulders while he was on the turn-Massage?Quote:
Originally Posted by jon1959
I s’pose they’ve every right to complain about the penalty incident but had their goal been correctly chalked off the game would have taken a different course. It would have been restarted with a free kick to us rather than a centre spot kick off. All ifs, ands and buts but the wrong decision re. their goal changed the whole format and subsequent scenarios. If the officials had done their job the penalty incident, as it was, wouldn’t have occurred.
I doubt reasoning came into it. It was a stupid thing to do. In most cases the ref would have given a penalty. But Pack didn't foul him, didn't make him fall over, and the double somersault with pike surely deserved some sort of award?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
The post-match ref assessment report will be X rated!
Exactly, there's this weird false equivalence going on as if a goal being wrongly awarded and a penalty being awarded are the same. Had the ref/linesman done his job properly and not allowed their goal then the penalty incident wouldn't have happened.Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
Impeded him i would say, although it depends on how much that Impediment caused the WBA player a problem in staying on his feet, not much i would've thought although pack putting his hands on him certainly wouldn't have helped his cause. I reckon that Pack was a lucky boy and the ref didn't fancy it. I'm grateful :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by jon1959
Wow, that's quite deep :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by City123
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Originally Posted by Tuerto
Quite correct though.
Indeed. And from the free kick that wasn't awarded for offside until the end of the game, literally anything could have happened. City could have held on to win, West Brom could have equalised later on, or the Baggies could have gone on to win. Who knows?Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
What we do know is that West Brom were awarded a goal that shouldn't have stood and City got away with one in injury time.
We could've lost 6-1 or won 5-2Quote:
Originally Posted by City123
All due to the officials’ ineptitude.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman
Maybe he didn't give it do balance out the offside goal..
Quite Correct.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman
I reckon that you could be on to something...Quote:
Originally Posted by dembethewarrior
I know :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
Do refs really think like that? Would it matter one iota to that ref yesterday if he had given a penalty? What would have happened? Morison would have complained, we would all be up in arms and the press would report it was a controversial ending at West Brom where the hosts continued their search for promotion.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto