Here are some memorable ones
- Matteo Kovacic somehow not getting sent over against us on Sunday
- Christian Norgaard being offside during the buildup during Brentford’s equaliser against us at home last season somehow not being taken into account
- Martinelli’s disallowed goal at Old Trafford away last season (even PGMOL admits Odegaard did not foul Eriksen in the buildup)
- Dan Burn’s foul on Gabriel denying us a penalty (Newcastle at home last season)
- Son somehow avoiding a booking for elbowing Rob Holding during our 3-0 to Sp*rs in the 21/22 season
- Several penalty shouts not given
Xhaka interfering with Schmeichel from behind him and being called offside was pretty bad.
That’s the thing though, I don’t think it was a foul. David Luiz doesn’t run across him – he’s behind him, makes no attempt to put in any challenge, and the Wolves player catches him, which causes him to trip up. If that’s a foul, then surely anyone can just run into the box with the ball, clatter into a defender, fall over and win a pen
He runs across the back of him. He’s initially to his right then runs directly behind him as the Wolves player goes to shoot. You don’t have to put a challenge in to foul someone. Watching it back in 0.25 on youtube it actually looks like Luiz’s knee goes in to the bottom of the foot so yeah it’s a definite foul.
I agree that you don’t have to put in a challenge to foul someone, but if that’s foul contact, how do you differentiate between what Luiz did and the scenario I described, where an attacker just runs into a defender and wins a pen? Intent? If you must imply intent in that situation, why not here? Neither player intends to make contact, it’s incidental
I’d have to see a specific scenario to say. I mean you can do hypotheticals the other way and say if these aren’t deemed a foul then what’s to stop defenders running directly behind attackers that are through in goal and hope the attackers foot catches their leg causing them to trip?
The Brighton one where they decided to give an offside call Martinelli after 3 minutes trying to draw the lines. It was basically impossible since there was a lot players close to each other making the call just a guess.
Yeah I mean I’m like pretty sure Martinelli was offside but the fact that it took them that long to look at it and couldn’t decide only to give an offside was ridiculous
What I wonder is how many times Man City have been on the wrong end of these decisions?
I can’t remember any and they’ve never had to receive an apology from PGMOL.
I’ve seen them get a fair few soft penalties though.
Ederson foul vs Odegaard 21/22
the one where erik pieters decided to T-pose and play basketball against pepe always baffles me
Robin Van Persie being sent off against Barcelona for taking a shot when he was winding up as the whistle was blown in a sold out and raucous camp nou
Pre VAR, but the Rooney dive in Game 50 still makes me mad nearly 20 years later
Don’t know if it was a VAR decision but the Martinelli double booking against Wolves. Guess who was the referee in that game…
Chambers against palace, David luiz against wolves, or the Brentford offside fiasco. Take your pick
Huge one not being mentioned here is when Tomiyasu had his face trampled on along the touchline, forget what game that was… Everton maybe? Not sure
A dive is a dive, and what happens after is irrelevant unless there’s violent conduct. It’s also not always going to be called. The amount of shirt grabbing and pulling that we see ignored… the ref didn’t have to overturn the decision of the field.
Fully pulling the shirt and sticking your leg out like that to impede him is always a penalty still. We’d lose our mind if we don’t get that
The Man City game two seasons ago when Ederson fouled Odegaard inside the box.
clear pen.
It has to be Norgaard. Insane calla are one thing but a referee just literally not doing their job is unforgivable.
Objectively it’s when they forgot to check offside, but subjectively David Luiz vs wolves
Luiz’s was ridiculous.
First off completely accidental the two players were running.
Secondly if you want to give a penalty for that then fine sure - I guess Luiz did by law trip him when he was in the box (although completely non intentionally)… But to send him off for that is crazy. The only justification is that he’s the last defender… But there’s no common sense at all. It was two players tripping each other up running towards the ball without meaning to touch the other.
Crazy decision
TBF, it’s up to the defender to avoid contact with the attacker, not the other way around
That logic is kinda easy to exploit
The inverse is in even worse.