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especially when Puyol was also doing the pulling and barging.

 

Are you telling me their aren't shirt pulls in every single game that are never called?

 

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22 years old and has 34 goals in 32 appearances for League 1 side Huddersfield.

 

There are about a half of a dozen shirt pulls on every single set piece in every single football match on the planet.

 

There are many different types of shirt pulling that goes on in most games, some more clear cut than others hence the difficulty for refs to call every single one.

In most instances the defender lets go before the guy falls but in a situation where the defender doesn't let go and the guy is impeded enough to go down...the referee has no choice but to blow for the pen.

 

They called one on Vidic in the last few years, remember? I believe it was a game Rooney scored a hattrick vs. Pompey.

See above. I mean dude, why even give them a reason to make an easy call like that? How can one claim they are cheating for Barcelona, when the ref made a call, thats a yellow card anywhere else on the pitch?

Its like the goal we conceded vs. Bilbao. They stopped our attack because Evra had his shoe come off, and he played the ball. The ref blew the whistle, and Bilbao went right down the pitch and scored after that. No one ever calls thats, but what can you say when the call is made? Its in the book.

 

Thats not really relevant. Its a foul.

"everyone else does it" has never worked as an excuse in all my life.

 

It is pretty obvious you don't read post before you respond.

 

I can remember an incident in Ligue 1 and the Bundesliga where this was called this season. It's not something called frequently but it's in the law. If a referee sees it, it will be called, simple as that. I mean Nesta was literally pulling him back with the tug.

 

"doing a cevno"

 

Sorry, you are right, I didnt. I didnt need to because there is no excuse for pulling another player down by his shirt, in your own box.

 

It wasn't that the defender held on for a exceptionally long time that he went down. He went down because Barca players have a sixth, maybe seventh sense for knowing how to get a penalty. He felt the tug, he hit the deck.

 

Who is talking about your life?

And the same people that defend Barca use the "everyone else does it" excuse when they are accused of diving or swarming the ref so I don't want to hear that BS.

 

What you should be complaining about is the moving pick Puyol was trying to set. That could possibly be a foul going the other way.


Should also complain about the foul just now on Ibra. Exact same foul Messi was awarded a PK.

 

You admit its a BS childish, excuse then?

 

Come on bro, why make this about Barcelona? If Rooney was tugged back like that he'd be hitting the deck and flapping his arms. Same for Nani. Does that mean United players have a sixth sense for hitting the deck?

Come on now.

 

I understand that.

Im not denying the tilt may be in favor of Barca, but that penalty, was a clear foul in the box, and no one should have any complaints.

 

I was just joking about the sixth sense thing. I was more making a point that they were both jostling for position and the Barca player decided to take a fall.

 

No, what I'm saying is it's one of those excuses that people love to use when it works out for them but then call other out for it.

I was saying the Barca fans (not saying you are) love to use that excuse when their players are accused of diving and swarming the refs to get cards.

 

Amazing how that incident has completely de-railed discussions about the game itself. I've not seen so much whinging about a team in my lifetime.

It's also these protests that create the vitriolic narrative. At the end of the day it was a penalty, and even if it wasn't they scored again.

There is literally no argument to draw from this.

 

You mean this guy?

 

hey look Mascherano 100% got the ball but got booked. Let's bitch about that.