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Joshref

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Penalty to Spurs. No complaints from me, Cedric has barged into the back of him. Can’t see VAR overturning that. Any thoughts?
 
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Not watching the game, but someone on BBC Sport text-in said that the game had a feeling similar to the Leeds- City game with the referee letting too much go. Both were reffed by Tierney, is this a common occurrence for him?
 
Tried managing the situation between Rob Holding and Son early on. Personally I think it worked because when he did caution Holding it was the most obvious persistent infringement caution I’ve seen in a long time.

And now having just binned him he can’t complain at all.

As for the penalty, had he said no foul I doubt that would’ve been overturned either.
 
Tierney’s got all the major decisions spot on in my opinion. The penalty was one where it wouldn’t have been overturned regardless of if he gave it or not.

Holding’s arm to the head of Son was moronic at the best of times, let alone when he’s already on a booking.
 
Given the cesspit that is social media, it's not surprising there's people out there that think Holding was hard done by. Utter tripe, only got himself to blame, he had clearly lost the plot from the very start.
 
Given the cesspit that is social media, it's not surprising there's people out there that think Holding was hard done by. Utter tripe, only got himself to blame, he had clearly lost the plot from the very start.
The laughable part was he tried claiming his shoulder and not his arm, as if that somehow makes it ok to charge your opponent off the ball. He only has himself to blame
 
Arteta's post match interview was embarrasing. He just refused to say anything as if he did he would "face a 6 month ban". Geoff Shreeves asked him if his players were to blame and he came out and said absolutely no, so was clearly looking to blame Paul Tierney.
 
Arteta Wenger out in front of the camera on Sky interview now.

Players blameless, referee at fault essentially. 🙄
 
If you want to get rid of diving in the game you have to caution this. I don't care how early in the game it is or what's at stake. It's clear attempt at cheating. No contact at all yet for some reason both feet get stuck to the ground behind him.

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I thought Tierney was excellent. Always seemed to be in the right place and gave what he saw decisively, even when he would have known the decision was going to cause some angst. It was almost like VAR wasn't there ....

In stark contrast, Arteta should be embarrassed by his after-match interview. That kind of slopey shoulders 'it couldn't have been my team, it must have been the officials' nonsense is what we all have to put up with too often.
 
I've only glanced at the PK decision once when I stuck my head in the boozer at HT
The Spurs fans were mocking and laughing at the decision and the Gooners were incandescent. Maybe I was swayed into think it was 'as soft as hands that do dishes'... Yes/No?
But then I don't see much controversy this morning about it. Weird... I must be imaging things. Just looked like an incident which nobody would've noticed or ever mentioned again if Tierney didn't call it
 
Yes, so I still see that as very soft. Forget the slomo's from various angles, they're so misleading. No way I'm calling this in real-time. Imagine this given in a Glasgow Derby, it would be 5-5 on PK's alone. Not for me, play-on and absolutely nobody even notices the Arsenal player holding his ground or Son making the usual meal of any contact whatsoever
 
Just looked like an incident which nobody would've noticed or ever mentioned again if Tierney didn't call it
at the moment Cedric made the challenge Neville immediately called ‘penalty’ on commentary. We see those in a Fair few games where full backs subtly lean into attackers jumping for the ball but this just a blatant charge into Sons back.
 
Yes, so I still see that as very soft. Forget the slomo's from various angles, they're so misleading. No way I'm calling this in real-time. Imagine this given in a Glasgow Derby, it would be 5-5 on PK's alone. Not for me, play-on and absolutely nobody even notices the Arsenal player holding his ground or Son making the usual meal of any contact whatsoever
I don't think you need the slomo on this one, but granted it does look different from different angles. There is a camera angle similar to Tierney's where you get a good view of how blatant it is at full speed. For me, it's well beyond accepted football contact and a good shout from the ref.

None of us should defend the indefensible from our senior colleagues, but on this one I think our ire should be saved for Mr. Arteta and his post-match nonsense
 
Seems like one where slo-mo makes it look like less of a foul than full speed. The angle that Tierney had shows that Son was going to be able to head the ball back across goal before he was carelessly charged in the back.
 
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