Helps when the referee gives you a penalty in the last minute for nothing
And decides to let your keeper stay on the pitch when probably 90% of other refs would have sent him for an early bath ! ;)[/quote]
I saw the two decisions on SSN last night when I got back from the game.
I thought Latics penalty was a penalty & just as much of one as Sunday’s. Perch makes a meal of it though with flailing arms as he goes down but for my money it was teh correct decision
Didn’t have the best view fo Al Habsi’s foul in the ground & said at the time that the only thing I could think why he hadn;t walked was that he’d taken the ball too wide & wouldn’t have been able to get a shot in. He did probably knock it a little wider than he’d wanted but if he’d been able to stay on his feet he’d have had a pretty simple job if just turning it in. Rosler said we had a covering defender but there’s no way he’d have been able to get back & either tackle the player or block any shot.
A very odd decision but we needed it coz ugly is too kind a word to describe that performance. Still 3 points is 3 points & those types of games often come on the back of the type of performance they produced on Sunday
