Comments on: VIDEO: How The F**k Is This A Pen??

By: tunnelboy

tunnelboy — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:07:02 +0000

Definitely a pen! My only beef is that one ref can see that one but another completely misses Drogba doing GBH on Wes Brown.

By: Scott the Red

Scott the Red — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:02:36 +0000

If a penalty was awarded every time shirts were pulled in the box, we’d have rugby scores every week!

The fact that Vidic lets go of his shirt when the ball comes in, allowing the player to jump for the ball, only adds to the fact a pen was a wrong decision.

Not a single Pompey player appealed for a pen. That tells you all you need to know.

By: ChelseaD

ChelseaD — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:56:05 +0000

There’s enough paranoia round here to make a schizophrenic look sane, lol. Vidic had a handful of shirt – if the opposition did that against you, would you be saying it wasn’t a pen?

By: Eli @ Eli Shares

Eli @ Eli Shares — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:47:57 +0000

It shouldn’t be a penalty, Vida did pull the shirt but with the right amount of force and he did let the Pompey dude to jump for the header. Unless Vida pulled Pompey dude too hard that he can’t even jump and fell to the ground, that would be a clear penalty.

By: phildo79

phildo79 — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:48:15 +0000

It’s a pen cos Vida was shirt pulling. I have no problem with this cos, after all, it is a foul and if it happened at the other end of the pitch we wouldn’t be complaining. The problem I have and probably everyone else has is the lack of consistancy in these decisions. Shirt pulling in the box goes on all the time so if you award one pen you really should be awarding about ten every match and that will never happen.

By: Mangesh

Mangesh — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:44:42 +0000

Alpha_RS

Had Portsmouth player gone down that would have been definite penalty IMO. But he neither appealed nor he went down. That was really unfair penalty.

And about Foster he also made couple of brilliant saves against Wigan and one against Birmingham City. Also a good one against Barnsley.

By: King Eric

King Eric — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:31:56 +0000

jamie and 20legend – We can’t keep a settled back four at the moment due to injuries. Fabio, Rio, Evans, O’Shea are all injured.

By: Alpha_RS

Alpha_RS — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:31:57 +0000

@Costas
We’ll see how much shirt pulling goes on in the Arsenal v Chelsea game later on this afternoon and whether the referee blows up for a penalty. I’d rather Arsenal beat Chelsea today. A penalty against John Terry would be great. Especially if it was an unjust one. Then he’ll know how it feels!
Tomasz Kuszak did a really good job yesterday. It would be interesting to make a comparison between the performances of Tomasz Kuszak and Ben Foster. Ben Foster has made a fair few howlers. Most notable against Man City, Arsenal, Sunderland come to mind. The only brilliant save I remember was the one from Van Persie against Arsenal. He hasn’t really taken his chance like say Johnny Evans did when Vida and Rio were injured. There seems to be a fair few balls coming in to the box that the keeper is forced to deal with though as the central defenders don’t seem to be getting their head on the ball though!

By: Costas

Costas — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:23:08 +0000

@Alpha_RS: It could be a pen. Not denying that. I am bemused for the same reason you are. Why is it that United are the first team to get a penalty like that against them.

And i agree about Tomasz. He has had a torrid time this season. When Edwin was out, he was on the bench and when VDS came back he was still on the bench(i think Foster hasn’t sat on the bench too much). That has to be so frustrating. Lets see where this performance takes him. He is a certain starter for Tottenham in my eyes.

By: Alpha_RS

Alpha_RS — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:46:17 +0000

@Costas et al
That was a penalty. To the letter of the law. Simple as.
But the point is that kind of shirt pulling happens in every game at every level up and down the country day in day out but they are rarely ever given.
So why was it given against United? That is the real question.

Also just wanna say Tomasz Kuszak made some really good saves yesterday. The reflex save where it hit the bar was top drawer. That performance should push him past Ben Foster.

Congratulations to Ryan Giggs. It’s saying something about the United midfield that he is still putting those kinds of perfomances in at this stage of his career. Brilliant invention and creativity. True professional.

You wonder where it’s gonna come from when he finally does retire!