Happy with that.........

I could never find the "ball-to-hand" not counting as hand ball rule..

lol your hands tend to come up to block your face,head,chest from taking a whack.

you are right in saying the ball struck his hand but his hands were above his head.... he was not shielding his body at all. if his hands were level with his head then that arguement may stand but the were way above his head

ManCityMan (U1189)
posted 1 hour, 15 minutes ago

"What was dubious about it? Lescott had his hands in the air and stopped the ball heading towards goal. Stonewall."

Epic fail!! watch it again, the ball would have gone well wide and even the after match analysts mentioned this fact.

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Ridiculous

How is anyone meant to see at that pace if its 100% hitting the target?

It was towards goal, in the penalty area. There is no debate about that decision.

Get over it.

When does the ball have to be going towards the goal for it to be handball???

D.J. Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 4 minutes ago

When does the ball have to be going towards the goal for it to be handball???
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It doesn't, and is that what I said?

I was only responding to the City fan who said the shot was off target.

I said that it was going towards goal, thus rendering it a CLEAR penalty.

Ok?

Javier, that is who I was talking to!!

Chelseas was a certain pen, you just can't stick your arms up in the air and stop the ball ffs! You should have had a pen, and you should have been down to 9 men never mind 10! Clichey knew he was on a yellow, so going into a tackle he can't make like a loonley means you'll get sent off.....and as for the actions of Toure, well City have got away with that one! So OP, you need to take off your blue specs off mate and actually think about it!

Some good comments guys.

Still think that most Prem refs would have waved away penalty claims when that powerful shot struck Lescott.

Chelsea did a good job of getting under our skin.
You could see the boys were rattled, angry, irritated and had lost composure.
They'll have to learn from that one.

We move on.

No3. Obtain a dubious penalty to win.

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If a handball in the box is dubious then you're a bit silly tbh.

Yet every handball which is far less obvious that United get away with in the box they probably scream blue murder and go on about how the refs and FA are in our pocket etc blah blah blah!

Fickle fans! I think City should have had a penalty in the first half but Chelsea's was a blatant penalty. Raise your arms in the area and you risk giving away a penalty. The whole ball to hand thing is irrelevant really. The hands shouldn't be up that high in the first place.