Whitey Grandad

A handball decision is always a subjective decision. Not as to whether there was any contact between the ball and the hand but there are a lot of other factors to be taken into consideration.

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“clear penalty” Again, this is subjective and not definitive. My views are well known. It is an abortion that ruins the tempo of the game. I used to enjoy watching rugby twenty years ago. Now it’s turned into American Football with all the stoppages. Totally unwatchable.

Handball is a subjective decision so one person’s view will be different from another’s.

That’s understandable. The problem is all the other drivers.

“Snow ankle deep” That was never a problem in my day. The trouble now is that we have a generation who have never experienced these conditions. It’s perfectly possible to drive on such snow but it does require a totally different approach. For us oldies these conditions are not unprecedented. We used to call it ‘winter’.

Agreed. Been there, done that.

Oops, did I miss something? Too many freds, I say. How about editing a thread title? Just a thought...

The club website has the game down for 13:30 on Sunday the 18th on the BBC. https://southamptonfc.com/fixtures/2017-18 And the BBC too http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43225939

What was the ‘orange ball, orange ball’ game. Was that away to Villa?

Oxford United away midweek whenever that was. Closely followed by that Reading match. Souness was incensed by the ref saying something like “It’ll be all right if they don’t go at it 100%” or something. I was frozen at Wembley for the Zenith Data Cup too.

They should pay us for watching it.

Yep. And it’s going to get worse. Television has paid a lot of money and it has bought the sport.

Did somebody mention my name?

This is his fundamental problem. He doesn’t have a concept of all-out attack. Go for the throat, I call it.

Swansea have a replay against Sheffield Wednesday tomorrow. What difference this might make I cannot say.

I agree. I've just wasted some more of my time by looking at the MOTD 'highlights' and from what little you can see if looks as if Barnes's goal cones off the point of his shoulder, of the very top of his sleeve and above the flesh. Poor goalkeeping in my opinion but McCarthy can't be criticised these days. As for his 'handling outside the box' again, not clear or obvious . If you accept that he has both hands on the ball then the attempt to kick the ball is a foul on the goalkeeper. All minor points in a long season.

Photo? Video? There is now way that you can be certain from TV. On MOTD you could see that his hands were releasing the ball.

His hands were a couple of inches away from the ball at the time the ball went outside the box.

That McCarthy had handled outside the box.The only eveidence that we have (TV) apears to show that he took his hands away at the last moment.

Go for the throat. We are running out of games.

Did he? What makes you think that?

Two TV fixtures have been selected and are now up on the FA website. We are not one of them. Manchester United v Brighton & Hove Albion 7.45pm, Saturday 17 March Live on BT Sport 2 Leicester City v Chelsea 4.30pm, Sunday 18 March Live on BBC One http://www.thefa.com/news/2018/feb/23/fa-cup-on-tv-quarter-finals-230218

I think you need to look up the meaning of ‘intervene’. It’s not as though he rugby-tackled anybody. It was a bright day, surely the players can see a big lump in the middle of the pitch? Anyway, how can you blame somebody who was not at fault?

There’s a lot of competition.