Saint Fan CaM Posted 19 October, 2010 Share Posted 19 October, 2010 (edited) Has anyone else seen the Huddersfield game 'highlights' on Saintsplayer? I would not bother usually running over a game we've lost, but I'm glad I did on this occasion. Watch the video and pause it at 1:20. What do you see? I'll elaborate - a significant infringement that the officials must have been blind not to spot... Just as Lambert (7) is about to head the ball, the ball is deliberately blocked by the hand of their no.16 - this is inside the penalty area and a nailed on penalty!!! Plus a booking or indeed sending off as the handball stopped a scoring chance. OK - too late now to worry about, but it does go to show how some of these so-called decent teams in this league are able to cheat their way to success and what a poor standard the officials are not to spot something like this IMO. Not only that, but this incident was before their 2nd goal and the course of the match might have been quite different if we'd been awarded a pen. Mind you, didn't excuse ANOTHER rubbish shot from Puncheon sailing over the bar into row ZZ! Edited 19 October, 2010 by Saint Fan CaM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 19 October, 2010 Share Posted 19 October, 2010 Will have another look but I didn't notice it when I watched earlier. Edit; think it's just the angle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintJackoInHurworth Posted 19 October, 2010 Share Posted 19 October, 2010 I was at the game and made brief reference to this incident in my comments on the post match thread. I'm pretty sure others have made reference to it as well. I take it you were not at the game and haven't read the post match comments? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocknrollman no2 Posted 19 October, 2010 Share Posted 19 October, 2010 Surely you are used to the refs and linesmen making bad decisions in this league? Its just another reason we need to get out of League one asap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doddisalegend Posted 19 October, 2010 Share Posted 19 October, 2010 Surely you are used to the refs and linesmen making bad decisions in this league? Its just another reason we need to get out of League one asap. I don't think it's just league one there were enough ****s up in the world cup and that was supposed to be the pinncle of football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devonsaint Posted 19 October, 2010 Share Posted 19 October, 2010 Don't you think that at least one of Adam, Guly or Chaplow, not to mention Ricky, would have appealed if it had been handball???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Fan CaM Posted 19 October, 2010 Author Share Posted 19 October, 2010 Don't you think that at least one of Adam, Guly or Chaplow, not to mention Ricky, would have appealed if it had been handball???? I did consider this, but if you pause at the 1:20 you can clearly see the guys arm reaching out and then after the contact, watch the direction the ball heads in...i.e. Rickie didn't get a touch. I am convinced it was a blatant handball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Fan CaM Posted 19 October, 2010 Author Share Posted 19 October, 2010 I was at the game and made brief reference to this incident in my comments on the post match thread. I'm pretty sure others have made reference to it as well. I take it you were not at the game and haven't read the post match comments? No, was not at the game and I must have missed the reference in the post match notes, although to be fair that might have been a reference to another incident. So you were pretty certain it was a handball? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintJackoInHurworth Posted 19 October, 2010 Share Posted 19 October, 2010 No, was not at the game and I must have missed the reference in the post match notes, although to be fair that might have been a reference to another incident. So you were pretty certain it was a handball? If it's the incident I remember seeing in the match, then yes. The referee was awful all afternoon and made a whole load of dreadful decisions. Did the players not appeal though? I don't remember from the match itself whether they did or not! I don't have a subscription to Saints Player so can't look at it myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintbenny Posted 20 October, 2010 Share Posted 20 October, 2010 I can confirm the ref was blxxdy awful all game. Completely lost control of the game in my humble opinion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Fan CaM Posted 20 October, 2010 Author Share Posted 20 October, 2010 If it's the incident I remember seeing in the match, then yes. The referee was awful all afternoon and made a whole load of dreadful decisions. Did the players not appeal though? I don't remember from the match itself whether they did or not! I don't have a subscription to Saints Player so can't look at it myself. Well it's true that no Saints player seemed to appeal which I did find remarkable. Perhaps it was the manner in which the offence took place - the player stuck his hand out (full arm stretch) and then followed through with his head to make it look like legal challenge. I wish I could take a snapshot of the video frame and post it on here - I did try but it didn't work. ): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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