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• 1. Charlie Cooke  |  September 17th, 2007 at 3:19 am

  You’ve lost credibility with me by claiming Pedersen should have had a penalty for a dramatic fall when the ball was already six feet away and crossing the goal line. By that standard, you’ll be awarding “penalties” in most games this season. I thought your admirable site was for obvious errors such as the awarding of a penalty to Chelsea at Anfield. Although, now that you’ve lowered the bar so much perhaps it was a penalty after all….

• 2. Mr. FLY  |  September 17th, 2007 at 7:39 am

  Josie Mourinho, is that you? LOL.

• 3. Bill  |  September 17th, 2007 at 8:18 am

  It was a 50/50 decision and I watched the review of it on Sky on Sunday morning. It could easily have been a penalty because Kalou was so clumsy and those are given all the time, so so say it was a dramatic fall is completely overstating it.

• 4. Will  |  September 17th, 2007 at 3:59 pm

  I note that you have no problem awarding Blackburn a penalty (for an incident after the ball was gone) yet you totally ignore the far more egregious but similar incident from two weeks ago when Shaun Wright Phillips was pulled to the ground at Aston Villa (and he still had the ball).

  Such bias destroys your credibility

• 5. Will  |  September 17th, 2007 at 5:45 pm

  It is also interesting that you equate a judgement call, which the ref did not give, and which may not have been converted successfully from the spot, with a nailed on, dead certainty, mistake.

  There was no judgement call over Chelsea’s goal, it was legal under any interpretation of the law you can apply.

  The disqualification of a fair goal does not equate to the possible opportunity to score from the penalty spot that might have derived from a 50/50 incident that nobody even complained about at the time.

  I doubt if you would have even raised the penalty issue for review had you not been looking at the disallowed goal in the same match. As I pointed out, you didn’t see fit to raise the more egregious Shaun Wright Phillips penalty issue v Aston Villa, therefore I think you are clutching at straws just to stick it to Chelsea.

  So you a REEEEEAAALLYY stretching it to suggest that a draw was a fair result.

• 6. Simon  |  September 17th, 2007 at 7:51 pm

  I think Mikel was very fortunate not to concede a penalty to be honest as the another ref would possibly have given it. Personally I think it would have been harsh but this stuff does happen. You could make a case that Malouda should or shouldn’t have been awarded a penalty earlier in the season against Liverpool depending on how you look at it, but it did get given and so it really doesn’t take much either way.

  As for the SWP thing and Will saying that this site sticks it to Chelsea, I think that’s plain wrong (I reckon they stick it to Tottenham, being a Spurs fan of course!). In fact you can check it out if you click on the teams on the league table and just see how many decisions have gone for and against each team this season (although probably a bit early for a meaningful analysis on that one). Judgement calls vs laws of the game is a crazy argument really, you could go on forever and it would be ridiculous. As it says in the rules most pens are converted and so that’s the stance the site assumes. Personally I think this site is fairly refreshing and whilst I don’t agree with every call they make I do think it’s pretty balanced all told.

• 7. Will  |  September 18th, 2007 at 7:04 pm

  Simon thinks RR sticks it to Tottenham. Fortunately, there is no need for anyone to stick it to Tottenham right now, they are sticking it to themselves..

• 8. Simon  |  September 18th, 2007 at 7:38 pm

  I think you and I can both agree on that Will, sadly for me!!

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