Other matches 20/21 Season

[labourRed]

Celtic down to 10 in the must win (for them) OF match.

A win here for Stevie would be massive.

A game of two halves, Jeff.

I haven't seen an OF game in about 6years. Fair to say there aren't many scouting opportunities for the Premiership.

[Mark79]

I thought you were still talking about the Utd one.

The Spurs pen is a tricky one. Looked outside the area, but I don’t know the minutiae of the ruling. Initial contact is the foul, subsequent contact. It’s a mystery to me Clive.

Anything from the outside edge of the penalty area line is considered ‘within the box’.

Not sure if this one was or wasn’t tbh. It’s a bit like ruling someone offside because VAR reckons their sleeve to be 3mm ahead of play.

[Fredo]

Meant to quote Kenneth’s post

[Fredo]

Deleted. Tapatalk is balls.

[Scratch]

I'm not sure I'm being Kurt angled, but stupid Luiz puts his right leg across Pogba's path making him clip his calf and subsequently trip himself up. It was a blatant penalty.

Agreed; Pogba is running, his trailing leg clips the defender and therefore deviates into the back of his calf. If the defender wasn't there, then that would not have happened. Clear penalty, even if the ref had not given it, VAR would. Defender at fault for being too tight.

[spud_gun]

Celtic down to 10 in the must win (for them) OF match.

A win here for Stevie would be massive.

Rangers 1 up.

Hold on and they'll win the league.

[Norbs]

I’m a Leeds fan.

Finally, you make sense

[Buzzo]

Rangers 1 up.

Hold on and they'll win the league.

Yeah a 19 point lead is pretty dominant

I hate Lennons Celtic so much, so it will be great to see them absolutely humiliated in their quest for 10 in a row.

Massive win for Rangers and Stevie.

[Norbs]

Do Evertonians support Rangers because we have an historic association with Celtic?

[Kenneth]

I don't know, looked a foul to me for sure. I'd have been screaming at the telly if that hadn't been given for us.

You explained why it isn't in the previous post about Pogba. Apart from being outside the box, it was a foul on the defender if anything. This thing about deliberately stretching a leg out on order to instigate contact has to be stopped.

[danperkins]

Agreed; Pogba is running, his trailing leg clips the defender and therefore deviates into the back of his calf. If the defender wasn't there, then that would not have happened. Clear penalty, even if the ref had not given it, VAR would. Defender at fault for being too tight.

Luiz right leg was in front of Pogba and planted in the ground and it wasn't even the leg he was challenging with. Pogba hits his leg, how on earth is that Luiz's fault? Its absolutely not a penalty imo and that front replay proves that for me. I can't believe its actually up for debate on here.

[Kenneth]

Agreed; Pogba is running, his trailing leg clips the defender and therefore deviates into the back of his calf. If the defender wasn't there, then that would not have happened. Clear penalty, even if the ref had not given it, VAR would. Defender at fault for being too tight.

That's not what happened though. Both players were running and Pogba moves his trailing leg to the side to make contact with the defender. Kicks the defender, basically. Then he goes down. I can't believe people buy it, and especially the officials.

[RichC]

That's not what happened though. Both players were running and moves his trailing leg to the side to make contact with the defender. Kicks the defender, basically. Then he goes down. I can't believe people buy it, and especially the officials.

[Kenneth]

We've gone from needing an attacking player to be impeded to qualify for a penalty, to any contact instigated by a defender being a penalty, to any contact whether made by a defender or an attacker being a penalty. We literally have weekly examples of attackers kicking defenders and being given free goals for it


It's a ludicrous situation that's completely ****ing up the integrity and competitiveness of the competition.

[Buzzo]

That's not what happened though. Both players were running and Pogba moves his trailing leg to the side to make contact with the defender. Kicks the defender, basically. Then he goes down. I can't believe people buy it, and especially the officials.

Yep

He has clearly either coached himself or been coached as to how to make it look like he has been tripped. Slow motion reveals it all.

VAR supposed to eliminate the howler. That was a howler.