28-12-2025, 12:22 PM
(28-12-2025, 11:51 AM)DeesideRed Wrote:(28-12-2025, 10:45 AM)Salvatore Matrecano Wrote: Deliberately locking your leg to get yourself tripped up in a defensive situation is a new one on me. I would say that’s pretty impossible especially in real time speed. If you slow stuff down to the nth degree you will spot something in every play. Surely ex Man City player Joe Hart wouldn’t have suggested no foul?
My take on it is annoying but I would prefer VAR scrapped regardless and in a non VAR world the goal probably stands.
Far more annoying was Dias’s 2nd yellow and the half dozen fouls by Gvardiol that went unpunished.
It was also Wayne Rooney on MOTD. MGW initiates contact to stop him jumping that's fine, he then tucks his leg to essentially drag him down and win a foul.
That's 2 ex players and VAR saying it
That’s two ex players with agendas.
Where - anywhere and by anybody in the media- has it been said that MGW locked his leg in to drag him down and win a foul?
The answer is nowhere because that’s not what MGW did. He was using his arm to stop the jump and both arm and leg to stop O’Reilly pushing-off from him to get half a yard of space to flick on at the near post.
Any other interpretation is disingenuous and simply wrong.
In a world where fouls simply aren’t given at corners, to imply Morgan did it to win one is beyond belief.