dtp, on 07 February 2016 - 01:11 PM, said:
It was a foul on Lee, no doubt. But, we seem to be getting on the end of a fair number of bad refereeing decisions throughout this season.
On the subject of their goalkeeper - is not there a case for describing "feigning injury" as "simulation"? What is the difference between a player diving to try and gain an advantage or a player feigning injury to try and gain an advantage. The laws of the game should allow a referee to observe the agility of a player following such deceit and book him retrospectively as it is rare to see somebody with a bad back leap about so easily.
Then again, the laws of the game allow the referee to book players for time wasting - what a waste of time that was yesterday with "Mr I'm in Westley's pocket"!
When the keeper first went down with his back injury we were beginning to put a bit of pressure on their goal with the kop making some noise
Cue play stopped for at least 2 minutes taking the wind out of our sails and quitening the crowd
It is one of the oldest tricks in the book but the problem is most refs cannot see through it and just tell the keeper to get up and play on
for fear of getting in the neck on the faint chance the keeper really is injured
The mere fact that Alnwick was soon diving about again soon after should have alerted the ref to the fact that he was trying it on and laughing
at him
Its just a pity we did not really give him a bad back by having to pick the ball out of the net a few times
Still with Westley joining the other 2 obnoxious toads in charge what do you expect from a Peterboro side
And the beauty is not that we can watch them again on the BBC on wednesday and Skys love in with Peterboro continues with the home match with Coventry
being shown later in the season
This post has been edited by whittman: 08 February 2016 - 10:45 AM