SeaSeeEffCee
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I’ve watched the video multiple times and you can’t definitively say that it’s only hit him above the t-shirt line on any of the angles shown. You’re not going to get a decision like this overturned without clear-cut evidence to the contrary. Screenshots taken before he’s even made contact with the ball, like the ones people are throwing round on Twitter, aren’t enough. What’s the alternative anyway? That there is a grand refereeing conspiracy against Coventry City in an attempt to get us relegated? I’d rather trust a panel of experienced officials ahead of a bunch of partisan football fans who are desperate for on of their centre backs to not get a suspension ahead of a big game.
Sky Blue Pete
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Rejected but only 2 games ban
So doubled for having the cheek to ask.
Sky Blue Pete
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No no addition for appealing
David O'Day
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If it it's somewhere else and deflects on to his arm from a short distance it's also as per the laws that are currently in place not a pen.
Also it's clear it hits his shoulder area
Well it's not really that special ,if we have Var now it's not that.mutch of a stretch to have a decent level of verification on ref decisions retrospectively ,oh hang on jeez IDK now
What are people's views of Var Lol.
Ah
Still a joke punishment considering the it's a subjective refs opinion ,cost during a game, subsequent game and then one more .
mrtrench
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I'm not complaining; I'm not even expressing an opinion on VAR and certainly not on whether it was a penalty or not. I'm just musing.
"You win some you lose some" is certainly a valid opinion. But I can also understand people thinking that's unacceptable when if you lose more than you win you might lose £millions. What if your bank randomly rounded your balance to an even £hundred every now and then? Is "you win some you lose some" fine in those circumstances? You'd probably be happy when they rounded up - but what if they rounded down 10 times in a row over the period of a month - and most of them immediately after your salary had been paid in. Still OK? And the amounts of money at risk in football are far greater.
Brighton Sky Blue
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There was about as much chance of this being successful as them upholding Wednesday's 12 points
mrtrench
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Aha! I always suspected that you were part of the conspiracy.
I bet the Wolves fans and management foster this opinion .
I'd concur having witnessed a fair number of their games which indeed didn't balance out with the round up theory.
hill83
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David O'Day
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The Hilluminati
Otis
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The Humiliati
SBS
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Fair enough, think I got the wrong impression of your original post.
For me VAR was / is never going to work, there’s so many disagreements amongst pundits even after minutes of slow motion replays. Rules now being changed to try and suit it but it won’t solve anything. Would love to see City in the PL but would hate dealing with that crap every week.
Johhny Blue
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I think the ref made a big mistake that may or may not have cost us a point(s) but I would have no concerns having him ref any of our future games. In the big picture he’s been consistently better than most.
Liquid Gold
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If they're going by 'clear and obvious' as a reason for overturning then it's not clear and obvious as we can't even agree on here with our sky blue specs on and the refs decision should stand.
Ian1779
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Isn’t it 2 because it’s his 2nd sending off this season? The offence is normally a 1 game ban I thought.
Sky Blue Pete
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Yep so no extra game for appealing
mrtrench
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I'm not great with the rules but morally it looks like handball to me. He moves his arm up towards the ball and steps away. Had he stepped into the ball and it hit the same place without raising his arm (and he appears to have time to do so), it would have been a great and legal block.
Happy_Martian
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Would anyone else like to see Kelly dropped back as the sweeper/central CB in McFadz' absence? He can read the game well, tackles well and is the leader on and off the pitch. Think he'd bring the games of Hyam, Osti and Rose up a notch and also reduce his exposure to manic running about the pitch trying to cover everyone elses job and therefore reduce the risk of injury.
Otis
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Too small and do we even know if he is any good in the air?
mrtrench
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Having seen his tackle profile, I think he could rise to the occasion.
Briles
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If you've got facebook have a look at this angle. Pretty conclusive. He moves his hand towards the ball and stops it. Everyone commenting in here im guessing has only seen the front angle. So I'll let you off. But you're wrong
David O'Day
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That's not the laws though. It can't be handball if it doesn't hit a part of the body that counts as a handball. Intent does not matter, if you got to handball it but don't it is not a handball.
Frostie
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Link doesn't work.
I've posted the view from behind earlier in the thread which shows it hitting his upper arm. You're literally contradicting yourself, earlier in the thread you said it hit his armpit which, by current definition, is NOT handball.
Ah but he moved unaturally ,then he moved his arm ,yeah to try and avoid the ball hitting it,ah but then he turned his upper body cheeky bugger trying to shield it away rather than into the net .
David O'Day
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It's a badly written law that is changing next season but short distance deflections do negate handballs.
steve cooper
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They won't normally overturn a referee's decision unless it is something like mistaken identity. Especially when a penalty is involved and/or the result is affected.
Out of interest does anyone know why Rotherham's Smith sending off was overturned?
If the sending off had cost Rotherham points the decision to overturn it would have been much more difficult.