Mark Clattenburg’s newspaper analysis of Everton penalty is pure eye-roll

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We’ve genuinely seen plenty of pundits and rival fans claim that the penalty decision on Trent Alexander-Arnold on Saturday evening was the correct one. 

Perhaps our bias makes us completely incapable of fair judgement, but having seen the incident about a thousand times, it still look like a striker running into a player lying on the floor and tripping up as a result.

Ian Ladyman of the Daily Mail agrees, although former referee Mark Clattenburg doesn’t.

He’s claimed that Trent was in fact lucky not to have been sent off, as he didn’t try to play the ball!

Trent didn’t try to play the man either, for goodness sake. He was on the floor, horizontal, after going to ground, and Dom Calvert-Lewin running at him full-pelt was the reason contact occurred.

Never mind – we’re pretty much done with officiating this season. Let them say what they want – the whole thing feels so ridiculous you can make an argument for it being rigged.

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3 Comments

  1. Trent lifting his leg to clip Lewin is why the penalty was given, we need to stop bemoaning this as Everton deserved the win and it did not effect the outcome. We have bigger issues in recruitment that have let us down so why keep smoke screening, Mick YNWA

  2. This has been my conclusion. The problem is that refs have lost the ability of commonsense. The striker fell over a body on the floor. Refs in their wisdom seem to think that they have to apply a law to every incident, they don’t. What bemuses me is that there is a battle every weekend for referees to justify their decisions. This is because the decisions are dubious and are ruining the game.
    This dilemma has only occurred with the Law changes and there is a debate to be had whether it has been for the betterment of the game or not. We, the fans, have got to stop analysing each incident and have a National Debate about issues such as VAR and Law changers. There is a concept that fans shouldn’t have a say in such matters but I think the person who pays the piper should call the tune, not unelected bureaucrats dictating what we can have and how it is, They are ruining our sport.

    1. There is plenty of pictorial evidence as to what took place after the collision when DCL regained his footing and was tripped by TAA. As for your view that DCL “fell over a body on the floor”? such nonsense, he didn’t go down until he was tripped. Red card? Not a clear goalscoring opportunity for me but certainly a foul which the ref rightly saw as a penalty.

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