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I was amazed this wasn't given as a red card. Still cant fathom why.

Peter Walton said it was because the leg was bent therefore there wasn't any force which was complete nonsense imo
 
It's just a still. It tells us nowt.

Serious foul play involves a players actions being (in the opinion of the referee) "excessively forceful".

I'm guessing a red card wasn't issued because none of the officials deemed it so.
 
Kes said:
It's just a still. It tells us nowt.

Serious foul play involves a players actions being (in the opinion of the referee) "excessively forceful".

I'm guessing a red card wasn't issued because none of the officials deemed it so.
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I'm fully aware of the law and that the officials obviously didn't think it was a C&O error. But it certainly looked a C&O error for me. Ticks all the boxes for SFP. Waltons explanation was baffling too
 
Ben448844 said:
I'm fully aware of the law and that the officials obviously didn't think it was a C&O error. But it certainly looked a C&O error for me. Ticks all the boxes for SFP. Waltons explanation was baffling too
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Walton just sits tyere trying to justify whatever decision the ref makes. Offers no opinion or insight
 
As performances go, I thought this was a prime example of how to completely lose control of a game. Inconsistent and constantly incorrect decision making throughout (the Jesus one shared above being one of many baffling decisions).

I think there's an argument to be had about whether Welbeck would have been able to gain control of the ball, but with the way VAR operates I wasn't even slightly surprised when it wasn't overturned. The Gundogan one is just inexplicable. On first viewing I actually thought the defender got a touch on the ball for the Jesus pen shout, so I'm okay with that not being given.

bloovee said:
Walton's job is to justify a decision, no matter how bad. How baffling is that?
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I enjoyed Stuart Brennan's description of Walton in the MEN match report - "Backing those two up, quite literally, was BT Sport's resident ref pundit Peter Walton, a man who performs contortions worthy of an Olympic gymnast trying to justify the unjustifiable" :oops:
 
How can that not be SFP? Would genuinely love to hear if people think its a yellow as to why.

More annoyingly for me and probably only me is the officials choice of colour of shirt(don’t actually know who picks it)
 
I think it probably is DOGSO and I'm happy with SFP, however I don't think either incident is what VAR is there for
The SFP looks a lot worse when slowed down etc. I don't think it's as bad as has been made out
 
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