[Albion] Penalties for us this season

Is this the longest we’ve gone in a season without having a penalty awarded to us ?

Is it also the longest we've gone without an Albion player scoring more than once in a match ?

The Wookiee said:

Is this the longest we’ve gone in a season without having a penalty awarded to us ?

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Possibly.

We didn’t score any penalties at all in 2004-2005 season but we were awarded one (that Leon Knight missed) at Millwall on 11/12/04.

It is not just us it?

We are not conceding many. I guess teams are making extra efforts to be careful defending in the box.

With so much hugging, arm-grabbing, pushing, shoving and pulling, events like corners have become a near-on MMA free-4-all.
Except, of course, for teams that defend zonal and not man-4-man - far more orderly.

I'd like to see footballers start wearing shirts like the egg-chasers - difficult / impossible to grab hold of anything.
Maybe compulsory woollen mittens that also make grabbing on to anything highly unsuccessful.
I'd also be happy for VAR to intervene on excessive man-handling by both defenders and attackers and start awarding free kicks or penalties to redefine that "marking" someone does not permit any hugging, grabbing, pushing, shoving or pulling.

Such 'housery has become too acceptable IMHO ...

Can’t even think of any particularly strong shouts we’ve had for pens where VAR has had more than a cursory look. Anyone?

Shropshire Seagull said:

With so much hugging, arm-grabbing, pushing, shoving and pulling, events like corners have become a near-on MMA free-4-all.
Except, of course, for teams that defend zonal and not man-4-man - far more orderly.

I'd like to see footballers start wearing shirts like the egg-chasers - difficult / impossible to grab hold of anything.
Maybe compulsory woollen mittens that also make grabbing on to anything highly unsuccessful.
I'd also be happy for VAR to intervene on excessive man-handling by both defenders and attackers and start awarding free kicks or penalties to redefine that "marking" someone does not permit any hugging, grabbing, pushing, shoving or pulling.

Such 'housery has become too acceptable IMHO ...

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But if they go in the other direction and blow penalties for someone just touching another player in these situations, we all know what it will look like. The so called men (in reality spoiled boys) in the Premier League and other big leagues will immediately throw themselves at the ground for what in the vaguest definition could be a "push". In the congestion of a set piece you can always find a foul one way or another in these situations. Its in the nature of so many players being close to eachother and moving around.

To get around that, we have and to large extent always have had higher tolerance for these things on set pieces. Its not something written in the laws of the game, it is just some sort of intersubjective reality that has been created out of necessisity. Refs, players, fans etc all know that there's a hidden set of laws in a corner situation... because otherwise they become a bit pointless since you can always find a foul from two players running into eachother or a hand on a shoulder somewhere or whatever.

Teams are becoming better at abusing this. In football, unlike in a fair bit of other sports, the culture is that winning is more important than the future of the game so there's always a desire to abuse situations, either through shoving, grabbing shirts and whatnot, or through throwing themselves on the ground for nothing, depending on the situation.

The refs aren't going to be able to solve this problem - pro football needs to take a look at itself before anything really can happen - so there will be constant bandaid fixes loosening or tightening up the rules. It will swing back and forth since people will always be unhappy with either "too much MMA" or "too much laying down on the ground".

Perfect timing!