Excellent Monday points as always. There were plenty of different stories in football this weekend.
Great for Palace winning the Cup but how Henderson was not sent off as you said was a joke. How can two VAR officials sit in a booth and decide that was not deliberate hand ball outside the area that prevented a clear goal scoring opportunity is madness. They must be watching different screens.
Grealish has to leave City as you say. He is done at City. Not a Pep player now. The substitution’s show that. Where he goes is going to be interesting as he is on a massive wage. But doesn’t go by people now or do anything attacking really. Pep would not be telling him to do this either. He loves attacking players and would want his wingers taking players on and trying to create things. Grealish holds onto the ball to long. Always cuts back onto his right foot. Easy to defend.
Rice without doubt Arsenal’s player of the season and the captain on the pitch. What a goal and what a player. Always fit to. Loves playing. Has to be the next England captain.
Great way for Vardy to go out at Leicester. A typical Vardy goal. What a signing he has been for Leicester. 13 years of great service for a club. But right to move on. Leicester need to restart again now with a new breed of player. Interested to see where he goes.
Good morning Henry, I have a slightly different take on the matter - maybe my membership of the goalkeepers union has a bearing on this. There is no doubt that both Henderson’s feet were in the area. So was he outside of his area? Are the laws of the game explicit? In cricket you can parry the ball back into play, provided your feet don’t touch the ground, therefore saving a six and/or facilitating a catch. In rugby, a defender can create a “ball out on the full” by catching the ball with one foot in touch.
Assuming that the laws of the game aren’t clear (my 1977 version from when I took a ref’s course at school won’t be much help), then surely the fact that part of his body - especially as it was his feet - means he was in the box. To me, common sense prevailed and now we have an explicit reference point, the laws can be amended to cover whatever outcome the powers that be. Perhaps they can address offside flag raising in the same meeting….
Hands outside an offence. They can’t look for a yellow so had to focus on DOGSO red card possibility. Take your point about cricket, Giles. Maybe they’ll consider changing it in football!
When VAR looked at Henderson handling outside his penalty area, was it only looking into whether the ref missed a red card incident? Was VAR not allowed to be used to award City a free kick? And my limited grasp of the ever changing rules tells me it’s a mandatory straight red and not a yellow for a keeper handling outside the penalty area. If this was all cleared up on TV or radio then apologies, I missed it.
Excellent Monday points as always. There were plenty of different stories in football this weekend.
Great for Palace winning the Cup but how Henderson was not sent off as you said was a joke. How can two VAR officials sit in a booth and decide that was not deliberate hand ball outside the area that prevented a clear goal scoring opportunity is madness. They must be watching different screens.
Grealish has to leave City as you say. He is done at City. Not a Pep player now. The substitution’s show that. Where he goes is going to be interesting as he is on a massive wage. But doesn’t go by people now or do anything attacking really. Pep would not be telling him to do this either. He loves attacking players and would want his wingers taking players on and trying to create things. Grealish holds onto the ball to long. Always cuts back onto his right foot. Easy to defend.
Rice without doubt Arsenal’s player of the season and the captain on the pitch. What a goal and what a player. Always fit to. Loves playing. Has to be the next England captain.
Great way for Vardy to go out at Leicester. A typical Vardy goal. What a signing he has been for Leicester. 13 years of great service for a club. But right to move on. Leicester need to restart again now with a new breed of player. Interested to see where he goes.
Enjoy this week’s football.
Good morning Henry, I have a slightly different take on the matter - maybe my membership of the goalkeepers union has a bearing on this. There is no doubt that both Henderson’s feet were in the area. So was he outside of his area? Are the laws of the game explicit? In cricket you can parry the ball back into play, provided your feet don’t touch the ground, therefore saving a six and/or facilitating a catch. In rugby, a defender can create a “ball out on the full” by catching the ball with one foot in touch.
Assuming that the laws of the game aren’t clear (my 1977 version from when I took a ref’s course at school won’t be much help), then surely the fact that part of his body - especially as it was his feet - means he was in the box. To me, common sense prevailed and now we have an explicit reference point, the laws can be amended to cover whatever outcome the powers that be. Perhaps they can address offside flag raising in the same meeting….
Hands outside an offence. They can’t look for a yellow so had to focus on DOGSO red card possibility. Take your point about cricket, Giles. Maybe they’ll consider changing it in football!
When VAR looked at Henderson handling outside his penalty area, was it only looking into whether the ref missed a red card incident? Was VAR not allowed to be used to award City a free kick? And my limited grasp of the ever changing rules tells me it’s a mandatory straight red and not a yellow for a keeper handling outside the penalty area. If this was all cleared up on TV or radio then apologies, I missed it.
Hi Simon they can look only at possible red card offences. Not yellows. Of course causes problems when a second yellow
Thanks for replying Henry and for your well crafted thoughts on Brian Glanville.
I can recall a book in my school library I read repeatedly about an English striker who went to play in Italy. I’m sure it was one of Brian’s.
McILvanney, Barclay and Glanville. The Holy Trinity.
And lost two recently. Quite the debating society upstairs