ayrshireblue wrote:Sky are even more full of shit than usual this morning. "The pivotal point came when City were controversially awarded a penalty." Amazon tried hard last night to get someone to say it shouldn't have been a penalty but couldn't because, rightly or wrongly, the laws of the game say a penalty must be awarded for the handball. In yesterdays Edinburgh derby Hibs were awarded a similar penalty and nobody made any issue of it, in fact the commentators phrase was "Is that a handball? Yes it was!"
Even the non-award of a penalty for Liverpool against Arsenal has been dragged out as an excuse not to give us the penalty - "Why is that a penalty if the Odegaard one wasn't". That was a wrong decision and should have been a penalty but should not influence other incidents.
That’s not a recent rule change - that’s always been classed as a penalty. Defender diving in with his arm in the air and it stops the shot from going towards goal. I’m not sure why they’re wheeling this nonsense out.








