[madsteve]

if we must talk about the game i mean thats what i wanted to do before being wummed    i thought he dived if you watch it from the camera angle behind him !! he lets both feet go in the air at the same time !! and yet the village player come in on his left leg first    he neads more practise ive always said that strikers and midfielders should practise this more !! owen used to  

.....but as Keith Hackett says, the challenge met all the criteria to be given as a penalty. Whether Maguire exagerated it or not, it is still a penalty.

[Statesideowl]

Definite penalty, Maguire made a meal of it though, throwing both arms up at the same time with both legs doing the same.. If only he just carried on with his momentum and gone down naturally it could've been different.

I personally believe Maguire does make meals of challenges and dives a bit. Horrendous qualities for a footballer to have.

[Thurnscoe_OWL]

We need a proper attacking coach who can tell players where to be for crosses, when to put crosses in instead of shooting, when to pass instead of shooting, how to shoot instead of passing and how to fall properly for a foul

[WakeyTerrier]

I thought it was a penalty and was amazed the ref didn't give it

[madsteve]

but he did exagerate like lee and nuhui the weeks before !! when will Wednesday ever learn ANYTHING aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

That is the point Hackett makes. Exagarating doesn't mean it isn't a penalty if a foul has been commited as it clearly was here. Even Chris Powell said, there was only one person who saw that foul & didn't think penalty. Thankfully for us that one man was the referee.

[Owlkev71]

but he did exagerate like lee and nuhui the weeks before !! when will Wednesday ever learn ANYTHING aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

That is the point Hackett makes. Exagarating doesn't mean it isn't a penalty if a foul has been commited as it clearly was here. Even Chris Powell said, there was only one person who saw that foul & didn't think penalty. Thankfully for us that one man was the referee.

I take it u mean "unfortunately" MS

[madsteve]

but he did exagerate like lee and nuhui the weeks before !! when will Wednesday ever learn ANYTHING aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

That is the point Hackett makes. Exagarating doesn't mean it isn't a penalty if a foul has been commited as it clearly was here. Even Chris Powell said, there was only one person who saw that foul & didn't think penalty. Thankfully for us that one man was the referee.

I take it u mean "unfortunately" MS

That was Chros Powell's quote - he said thankfully.

[Maddix]

I'm more pissed off with May's booking Out of the three, so called fouls, on their keeper, two of them Murphy led with his shoulder and had full intentions of taking May out, the other was 50-50 and then he gets a yellow for having his shirt nearly ripped off his back all because the ref played to the crowd and the home team who surrounded him at every little niggle (wankers) demanding action. Action for what ?

[madsteve]

Let's see if the referee rings SG to apologise.

I know that several referees rang DJ to apologise when they made mistakes. It doesn't make things right but it does make you think that at least they are honest in assessing their performance.

Graham Salisbury has had many poor matches involving Wednesday & the contraversial decisions have always gone against us, home or away. He doesn't strike me as being humble, more pompous.

[St Charles Owl]

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.