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Wolves v Blackburn

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Anyone else reaaaaally rate Farai Hallam - started the season on a high!

Hopefully this doesn’t jinx it and he doesn’t go on to drop a clanger in the second half…
 
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Handball & from his position, inside the penalty area (or at least on the boundary line) - therefore a penalty kick.
Looks from his body position that he was definitely inside, certainly a very brave decision though as the safe option would have been free kick.
 
Looks from his body position that he was definitely inside, certainly a very brave decision though as the safe option would have been free kick.
I don’t think the safe option would have been the right decision, especially with the score-line as it was - needed to be brave if he trusted his instinct/gut which he did, especially from the position he had whereby I don’t think he would have guessed. From the long view down the pitch they showed a few times after the incident it looked on the boundary line or inside the penalty area to me and the Referee was in a much better/closer position.
 
I don’t think the safe option would have been the right decision, especially with the score-line as it was - needed to be brave if he trusted his instinct/gut which he did, especially from the position he had whereby I don’t think he would have guessed. From the long view down the pitch they showed a few times after the incident it looked on the boundary line or inside the penalty area to me and the Referee was in a much better/closer position.
Completely agree, I'm just saying that from his position it would have been easy to go safe as he wasn't looking at it from a great angle. I do think he got it right, but I'm not sure he can have been 100% certain given where he was stood, and he gave it immediately so there was definitely no input from the other officials.
 
Top decision thst and said similar on our group chat

I think he's 4th for some CL qualifying games and the community shield too

Think we'll see him middle a dozen or so PL games plus some plumb cup ties this year
 
Wolves fan so glad my gold tinted specs were not deceiving me.

I genuinely thought the arm looked inside. Great refereeing performance - he had a better view/position than the camera too and was brave.
 
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