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I still maintain that the reason the penalty wasn't given was that Maguire was already on his way to the ground before he was touched!!  He knew he was going to be fouled but in trying to "sell" it to the ref he went down too early!!  He needs to occasionally try to stay on his feet right through a challenge, he will get much more respect from refs if he does that.  It was a foul, but if he was deemed to be simulating before the tackle then maybe that foul took precedence in the refs eye!!

On an earlier discussion I said I would like to see refs be able to explain their thinking about the decisions they made during a game, give them the  opportunity to tell us why they gave a decision and maybe even accept that they were wrong with hindsight, this would be a classic case for the ref to be able to give his version, but we know that's not going to happen.

I agree but as Keith Hackett says, the foul ticked all the boxes to make it a penalty.

Great to hear Howard Webb on MNF last night.