I’ve seen players do that, move towards the ball and deflect it with their arm which is by their side and not be penalised, load of rubbish IMO, should be a penalty!
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Maybe defenders just need to have their arms cut off?
oh wait I thought I was in the SandCastle thread.
It is a consideration. Players are supposed to be protected from having the ball blasted at them, but you’re right it’s at the ref’s discretion. That doesn’t apply here though given it came from a fairly good distance away and he moved himself into the flight of the ball to try to block it. You don’t get to claim the ball hit you when you move yourself into the path of it.
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Felt to me like he angled his arm to make sure it might hit it.
I’d be calling our player dumb and getting being called a numpty I assume.
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As I feared look who they appointed as refs and VAR Slot already voicing his concerns mentioning the last two games he screwed us over.
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They’ve started early this season.
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What is the point of this new ref cam if Sky refuse to show the footage of potentially key issues?
At halftime they showed the first corner and us clearing the ball, but cut it short just as the ball went to Coady when Joelinton nearly kicked his head off, but they stopped the footage and moved on without any comment of the foul - why? At the time I thought it could have been a red card.
Hooper allowed them Carte Blanch to kick 7 shades out of us for the first 20 odd minutes but miraculasely none of Newcastles early fouls where shown on ref cam
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Tackles like that can only go out after the 9pm watershed :0)
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Its nonsense, unnecessary are will always be dishonest. The camera will see stuff the ref doesn’t want to see anyway.
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As I suspected before the game when we knew the appointment of Hooper, I knew he would play to the crowd and gave them everything they wanted but the ungrateful sods insulted him throughout the match.
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Oddly John Brooks did at least show enough interest in the Gordon tackle. Why do I feel if that had been Oliver it would have been “yeah good process lads”
Would say the above article is a bit silly, refs will piss off managers at times and get booked. This idea he is another ref with a vendetta based on that is silly. Typical fan social media article.
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