The Spygate Saga

[Kenilworthy1959]

With a two match ban for a West Brom forward for handling the ball into the net it looks like the era for over the top punishments is well established. It is not even clear that it was intentional. Will Norwich get a ban for their goal against us last season? 

[Birder Saint]

13 minutes ago, Kenilworthy1959 said:

With a two match ban for a West Brom forward for handling the ball into the net it looks like the era for over the top punishments is well established. It is not even clear that it was intentional. Will Norwich get a ban for their goal against us last season? 

Or the skates?

[LiberalCommunist]

We really are in new territory now. Until they try it with a club big enough to stand up to them, then we are in the same territory. 

[James]

Just now, LiberalCommunist said:

We really are in new territory now. Until they try it with a club big enough to stand up to them, then we are in the same territory. 

Completely insane. 2 match ban because the ref missed what should have been an obvious decision to disallow a goal. Definitely not clear that it was intentional.

[benjii]

23 minutes ago, Kenilworthy1959 said:

With a two match ban for a West Brom forward for handling the ball into the net it looks like the era for over the top punishments is well established. It is not even clear that it was intentional. Will Norwich get a ban for their goal against us last season? 

So an offence that's a yellow card if the ref sees it, is a 2 match ban if the ref doesn't see it.

Makes sense.