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#Post#: 1859--------------------------------------------------
Chris Kavanagh - Arsenal v Leicester
DIR By: bruntyboy
Date: October 22, 2018, 6:07 pm
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How did he fail to award a penalty for a clear cut handball (and
a RC for a 2nd booking for Holding) when looking straight at
the incident from 10 yards away?
#Post#: 1861--------------------------------------------------
Re: Chris Kavanagh - Arsenal v Leicester
DIR By: QuoCob
Date: October 22, 2018, 6:12 pm
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It was one of those; it was hand ball but was it deliberate?
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Re: Chris Kavanagh - Arsenal v Leicester
DIR By: Failed Ref
Date: October 23, 2018, 3:19 am
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Hands above head, must be a penalty.... Chris Sutton slams the
decision....
I would argue that this was one of the best decisions made this
season. Both players were going for the ball, both had their
hands up and looking at the photographs they look like a mirror
image of each other! Were both trying to handle the ball? No, I
believe that the defender's hand appears to be in a natural
position as a result of jumping to head the ball (just like the
attacker's) and therefore I cannot see how the handball was
deliberate or that he could have moved his hands out of the way.
Difficult to accept from a Leicester perspective but had a
penalty and a second yellow been given the Arsenal would have
had good cause to feel aggrieved. I wonder what Chris Kavanagh's
reasoning was?
It also occurs to me that it must have been tempting for the
assistant to call a penalty as all neutrals must have at first.
Otherwise I thought the referee was OK. It was one of those
games where there were many similar petty offences and you have
the perennial problem of differentiating the ones worthy of
yellow and those not and the word inconsistent comes to mind but
in these circumstances it is easy to hang that word around the
referees neck when in fact players these days are too clever and
cynical.
#Post#: 1865--------------------------------------------------
Re: Chris Kavanagh - Arsenal v Leicester
DIR By: nemesis
Date: October 23, 2018, 3:50 am
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--- Quote from: Failed Ref link ---
>
> Hands above head, must be a penalty.... Chris Sutton slams the
decision....
>
> I would argue that this was one of the best decisions made
this season. Both players were going for the ball, both had
their hands up and looking at the photographs they look like a
mirror image of each other! Were both trying to handle the ball?
No, I believe that the defender's hand appears to be in a
natural position as a result of jumping to head the ball (just
like the attacker's) and therefore I cannot see how the handball
was deliberate or that he could have moved his hands out of the
way. Difficult to accept from a Leicester perspective but had a
penalty and a second yellow been given the Arsenal would have
had good cause to feel aggrieved. I wonder what Chris Kavanagh's
reasoning was?
> It also occurs to me that it must have been tempting for the
assistant to call a penalty as all neutrals must have at first.
> Otherwise I thought the referee was OK. It was one of those
games where there were many similar petty offences and you have
the perennial problem of differentiating the ones worthy of
yellow and those not and the word inconsistent comes to mind but
in these circumstances it is easy to hang that word around the
referees neck when in fact players these days are too clever and
cynical.
>
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Anyone think he might have found it just that little bit easier
to give at the other end. Kavanagh seems to have settled in
well.
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Re: Chris Kavanagh - Arsenal v Leicester
DIR By: Readingfan
Date: October 23, 2018, 7:49 am
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I don't buy the argument that it wasn't 'deliberate' - I think
everyone would expect a penalty to be given in that situation.
I'm not sure a second yellow card would have been necessary
though.
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Re: Chris Kavanagh - Arsenal v Leicester
DIR By: dtrv2
Date: October 23, 2018, 9:16 am
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I'm an Arsenal fan and I think it was a penalty and called it as
it happened. The only possible argument against it I can see is
perhaps Holding was nudged before, but I think that is clutching
at straws given how high his hand was. Can't understand the
calls for a second yellow though - not every handball, even at a
penalty, has to be a YC.
Shame, as other than that key decision, Kavanagh had a decent
game.
#Post#: 1917--------------------------------------------------
Re: Chris Kavanagh - Arsenal v Leicester
DIR By: Tweed
Date: October 24, 2018, 1:32 pm
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Kavanagh has been excellent for a year and a half, this maybe
the first bit of adversity he has had - react well and a top
referee we have.
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