Fair play to Shearer on MOTD, he called it perfectly.
Agreed. Lineker said on twitter that he thought it was a penalty and tried to push Shearer into making it a controversy. I liked how quickly he clearly shut it down
Fair play to Shearer on MOTD, he called it perfectly.
I think the still image on that article is fairly conclusive proof that Solly did make SOME contact with Trezeguet's shin (for those claiming he didn't). Still no-where near enough to cause him to tumble like he did, of course, nor enough to make it a penalty.Dermot Gallagher calling what was patently obvious to anyone other than Keown and myopic Villa fans yesterday
INCIDENT: Michael Oliver awards Aston Villa a dramatic penalty after Trezeguet appears to be tripped in the box by Brighton's Solly March. But, after consulting VAR and the pitchside monitor, Oliver judges that March had touched enough of the ball before catching Trezeguet and chalks off the penalty.
VERDICT: "I think this was definitely not a penalty. The angle the ball goes tells me that March has got a big touch on the ball. Then they've come together. March has clearly played that ball first - there's no doubt in my mind."
https://www.skysports.com/football/...lagher-bruno-fernandes-incident-not-a-penalty
I lost patience with Martin Keown when he pushed in front of me in a queue in the Churchill Square branch of Barclays Bank in 1985.
Keown is a weak pundit and always has been.
He tries to sound intelligent and can speak convincingly. But when you break it down he very very rarely has anything insightful to say.
He approaches punditry like he did defending - by intimidation, and breaking up the conversation.
Watch how he buts in with some irrelevant or obvious nonsense, when he’s in a group of pundits.
Fair play to him though, he gets work over far superior minds.
Yeah we spotted that one. Plus the nonsense about having players who "want to get the points". He just chatted shit the entire game and then got important incidents completely wrong.Stealing a living. He asked whether Webster practices long passes in training ! Also made some reference to ‘an unprecedented number of games’ for the players to play. Last time I looked there was the PL, the league cup and the FA Cup. Same as ever.
just turn the sound down and then you don't have to put up with the irritating comments
I lost patience with Martin Keown when he pushed in front of me in a queue in the Churchill Square branch of Barclays Bank in 1985.
Look at it from the angle that shows it properly (someone posted the slow mo of it on here somewhere) and there's clear daylight between them.I think the still image on that article is fairly conclusive proof that Solly did make SOME contact with Trezeguet's shin (for those claiming he didn't). Still no-where near enough to cause him to tumble like he did, of course, nor enough to make it a penalty.
I think the still image on that article is fairly conclusive proof that Solly did make SOME contact with Trezeguet's shin (for those claiming he didn't). Still no-where near enough to cause him to tumble like he did, of course, nor enough to make it a penalty.
The longevity and cause of such grudges is what makes football the sport it is!
I agree that that angle makes it look like there was no contact. But I'm struggling to look at that still image and envisage March pulling his leg away with (at the moment that was taken) an absolutely maximum of a millimetre between them, as that appears to bear out. It would almost defy physics!Not when you see the slow mo from behind that clearly shows Solly pulling his leg away with no contact.
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FYI, I have no idea what kind of person Martin Keown is but I did acquire a Barclays Bank credit card recently.I lost patience with Martin Keown when he pushed in front of me in a queue in the Churchill Square branch of Barclays Bank in 1985.
He is the perfect example of someone who believes they are intelligent by talking slowly and using 4 words where 1 would suffice.Searched for threads with Keown in the title and had quite a choice, none of them complimentary, which just about sums him up. Settled on this one as apparently I’d started it when some bullshit he’d previously come out with had obviously pissed me off.
Anyway, he’s back on form this morning on talkSport. Still banging on about the Rice red card, he’s almost in tears. Embarassment of a man. White and Jordan are just taking the piss out of him constantly and he’s not even aware. Absolute tool.