In some other very important game we didn’t even got a freekick for studs to the chest so we should think ourselves lucky 
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to be fair McCallister did enter the space (or some other garbage)
best one i remember about arse covering was the ‘you can see Jota slow down to initiate the contact’…he slowed down to shoot FFS
greatest comment of all time…‘good process lads’
bah.
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Wirtz is a lucky boy he didn’t get a red for coming into Gomez’s space like that
https://x.com/onescouse/status/2000053348087840871?s=61&t=VxX1vHU3NOwwNhlbyICG-g
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Actually, he was OK apart from the fact that he didn’t show him the yellow immediately. It looked like he was consulting with VAR before he decided on which card to give, whereas I believe he is meant to make a decision first and VAR can check.
Edit - I suppose he could have been consulting with his pitch-side assistant. The delay still seemed weird. It was only confirmed by the commentators at half time.
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Well, referee has only applied the same criterion as in situations when Mings went kung-fu on Gakpo or when Doku did the same to Mac Allister. This is actually a positive development when it comes to the improvement of refereeing performance and consistency, so I’m not really sure what you’re getting at here.
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The ball was gone before he lifted his leg. Even if he was trying to slow his own momentum, don’t do it with a foot high up on the opponent’s chest. That looked awful, so dangerous.
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Im generally ok with Pawson it’s not a great decision.
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Without watching it, is it the one where drogba gets booked for being studded in the chest by Evans?
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I can’t quite work out what the yellow card was for there. Wrong shirt?
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Had Evans not kicked him the chest drogba could have clattered him 
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Evans got his retaliation in first.
Drogba doing an admirable Tiswas-style dying fly there.
Drogba could have KILLED Evans…
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The Referees or The Twelfth Man…
… have fleeced us again.
Kavanagh is just a bit shit, isnt he. He sort of plays path of least resistance. If you appeal enough you get it.
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He’s at least as good as Michael Oliver, which is supposed to be interpreted as praiseworthy
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regarding the Ekitike penalty not given, why wasnt VAR getting involved?
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That’s on par with, “my post New Years turd, has been promoted to an elite sh!t”
Pawson and Madeley on Sunday which aren’t the worst.
Get up to speed. It’s the “threshold”.
This threshold can be stretched to fit any narrative you can come up with. So the hold was not detrimental to Hugo as he managed to get his pass in to another player.
Ergo, not enough in the holding. In other words, you are encouraged to go down to win a pen.