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Originally Posted by Locke
Okay, I watched that game, first of all, Dawson may have been lighty jarred on conceding the first penalty, but it was hardly a foul, and either way, a CB should know to never, ever, put your hands up when going for a corner.
The Gomes penalty was clear cut. No contact with the ball, and again, if Gomes wasnt butterfingers and actually, oh, I dont know, held the damn ball when he caught it the first time there wouldnt have been a problem.
That Adam tackle on Bale was gruesome. I remember seeing it happen, and I'm largely convinced that Bale is really very fragile, I remember thinking to myself 'has this guy ever finished a whole 90 minutes?'
Then they showed the replay, and that was ugly. That really should have been a red card. Sure, I doubt there was intent there, but even if that was just clumsy that was a bad, bad tackle.
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Disagree on the dawson thing, jump in the air and have someone touch you in the back. You will always put your arms up to try and steady yourself, it was slight and not worthy of a foul in any other case, but it caused Dawson to put his arms up so it wasn't worthy of a penalty either
Bale does go down a lot, he is a bit soft Harry has called him out on it in the past. But he doesn't get the same calls as other wingers do, even someone like Lennon gets more calls than him. It all depends on how the ref calls the first borderline tackle, if he gives a yellow than it protects the player, if he doesn't than its basically open season. So far this year its been open season on Bale
the whole 'he's not that kind of player' stuff with Adam is wrong, he did the same thing to David Silva earlier this year. Luckily Silva didn't get hurt
how many times must you do something stupid before you become 'that kind of player'