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Sorry if this has already been covered but I couldn't see it anywhere (and don't want to read through 25 pages of the match thread)

I was at the match so only saw the incident once and thought it was a pen but there were plenty of people on the radio saying it wasn't. So, just between us blues, was it a penner?

NO mate it wasn't it was a free kick outside the box.

no imo but like i give a fuck.

should owen scored in the 7th minute of ET at OT?

nope.

Probably not. Based on the same idea as the one we conceded against Everton, but the contact in the box was less apparent.

No, he never so much as touched Cantona when the corner was being taken.

No but it wasn´t 6 minutes at the swamp NOR 5 tonight

Marginal, but then if he didn't have a handful of his shirt then it definitely wouldn't have been so. End of.

for me, no.

but that said if everton's pen on sat was legit, so was this. shirt tug outside but bellers went down inside. goal scoring chance stopped.

tv coverage on the beeb was not conclusive. they all thought it was contact outside and no contact inside but it looked as though there was a pull right on the edge. anyway doesn't matter. was it a penalty? yes! the ref said it was so it was. we got done against everton today the moon shone on us!

I'm sure when we read tomorrows papers it will be as much of a penalty as all the other ones given. Ref says penalty, it's a penalty. For me, if Micah's foul was apenalty on Saturday then the foul on Bellamy tonight had to be one as well.

no.

i would of been very unhappy if it was given against us but at the time before any replays on tv i thaught so and so did my rag mates

Definitely a foul, but I'm not sure it was inside the box, however even if it were outside, it was close enough to the edge that to make a judging mistake on that wouldn't be very hard.

There is a part of me that is glad it was a dodgy decision, it makes it even funnier that we beat them!

He definately still had a hand on Bellendamy when they got inside the box. I've watched it half a dozen times at least and if he still has his hand on him in the area, then it's a pen. Not speakin with my blue glasses on, it's just how it was nuff said.

i would of been very unhappy if it was given against us but at the time before any replays on tv i thaught so and so did my rag mates

King Kev wrote:There is a part of me that is glad it was a dodgy decision, it makes it even funnier that we beat them!

exfuckingactly, what goes around comes around

No

Foul outside, and the slap on Bellamy's forearm (leading from the position his arm was in after the initial foul) created a second foul. From the amount of rag players in the box, and the position outside the box the initial foul happened, that should have meant a red card and a free kick to me. As it was, it ended up a pen and a yellow.