by greengoonerie » Tue Apr 30, 2013 8:50 am
I thought Sagnas studs got the ball at roughly the same time as RVP touched the ball forward TBH.
His initial mistake, his panicked sprint back and reckless lunge all contributed to the refs decision, who saw it from behind the incident so had a different view to us all. The GIF above is probably closer to the referees view than the frontal one shown by SKY which I thought showed more clearly Sagna getting teh ball with his studs.
However, if it had been Theo tackled in the same way by Evra, we would all have been screaming for a Peno I think.
I dont agree with Yorky - if you win the ball first, it's not a foul.
Agree with Dejan on this.
All that said, it IS history. The ref gave it, RVP scored and if Sagna hadn't been thinking of Paris in the Springtime with his backpass, there would have been no peno!