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Trial by sportscene
We going to get hammered seeing as they decided to pick up on mccalls comments?
Tbf the 'pen' I can see why it would be given but equally deniz dives to save and it squirms under him...deniz is pretty much stationary when the striker runs into him
The 2nd the ball get some mad backspin which means the defender checks his run as all three go to challenge for it which clark can't stop himself mid jump.
Equally no mention of brannigans hand ball on the line
Why am I not surprised. Id much rather we got Hugh dallas or wullie young on to give real refereeing commentary
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- Snacks94
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Re: Trial by sportscene
I would say that ref was correct not to give thistle penalty appeal
I think our second goal shouldn’t have counted as Clark pushes the defender into the keeper
From what I can see from the replays it doesn’t touch Bannigan’s hand from McNulty’s shot - but difficult to see clearly.
No idea about the alleged punch but to be honest it takes very little for Brian Graham to roll about on the ground and Ian McCall is a slavering arsehole so fair chance there is absolutely nothing in it.
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Re: Trial by sportscene
Snacks94 wrote:
I would say that ref was correct not to give thistle penalty appeal
I think our second goal shouldn’t have counted as Clark pushes the defender into the keeper
From what I can see from the replays it doesn’t touch Bannigan’s hand from McNulty’s shot - but difficult to see clearly.
No idea about the alleged punch but to be honest it takes very little for Brian Graham to roll about on the ground and Ian McCall is a slavering arsehole so fair chance there is absolutely nothing in it.
They didn't show the Brian Graham incident at all. I'd love to see it back though.
I saw the pen differently but must say I couldn't say 100%. Looks like brannigan moves his hand towards the ball and it possibly hits him on the back of his hand.
Either way, you've got Hutton and Bartley banging on about how terrible united are... its just not a balanced look at the game
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Re: Trial by sportscene
It was a penalty. A stonewaller in fact.
Mehmet should probably also have been sent off by the letter of the law. The ball goes under his body and he subsequently wipes out their forward. He totally prevents a goal scoring opportunity. Doesn't matter if it was intentional or not.
Clark's goal should never have stood either. He clearly pushes their defender into their goalie, causing them to collide.
No idea about the 'punch' on Brian Graham as it wasn't caught on camera, but i doubt they are making it up. You could hear their bench going mental at the time.
Ref's have totally screwed us over at times this season, but on Saturday we got lucky. Very lucky.
The standard of refereeing in this country is frankly atrocious.
We are seeing horrendous decisions every week these days and all without the pressure of fans being in the ground.
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Re: Trial by sportscene
It was a penalty. A stonewaller in fact.
Mehmet should probably also have been sent off by the letter of the law. The ball goes under his body and he subsequently wipes out their forward. He totally prevents a goal scoring opportunity. Doesn't matter if it was intentional or not.
Clark's goal should never have stood either. He clearly pushes their defender into their goalie, causing them to collide.
No idea about the 'punch' on Brian Graham as it wasn't caught on camera, but i doubt they are making it up. You could hear their bench going mental at the time.
Ref's have totally screwed us over at times this season, but on Saturday we got lucky. Very lucky.
The standard of refereeing in this country is frankly atrocious.
We are seeing horrendous decisions every week these days and all without the pressure of fans being in the ground.
Or, looking at it positively, it could be a hand of God year? 😇🙏😉
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Over the years, I think United have been hard done by refereeing decisions, especially in big games against the old firms.
Weirdly, we seem to have a pattern of wrong decisions in our favour, against Thistle. The hand of God on 2010, blatant penalty just before the Welsh equalizer in the play off, and now this.
Is it all some kind of reverse karma for the disallowed goal in early 90sm
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Over the years, I think United have been hard done by refereeing decisions, especially in big games against the old firms.
Weirdly, we seem to have a pattern of wrong decisions in our favour, against Thistle. The hand of God on 2010, blatant penalty just before the Welsh equalizer in the play off, and now this.
Is it all some kind of reverse karma for the disallowed goal in early 90sm
Every single poor decision ever made was still a better decision than the disallowed goal 😂