Tuesday 8 December 2015

Match of the Day





Still suffering from the weekends results that once again provided as many surprises as it did inconsistencies in the refereeing decisions. Yes, that old chestnut I'm afraid.
Offside, use to be either given or not. Now we have variations of marginal, way off by a mile and flagged but level, so not offside. This provided goals for Bournemouth and Leicester but not for Liverpool. In the case of Leicester's second goal scored by Mahrez (clearly very offside) Match of the Day didn't even bother to review it after showing the match highlights. Bad luck Swansea!
Was this so surprising ? 
MOTD was on for 90 minutes and featured 8 Premiership games. With all the in-between chatter and after match analysis of say roughly 5 minutes per game, this left only just over 6 minutes of highlights shown of the actual football played. Barely enough time to see any of the action, let alone all the replays of the important incidents. Time for MOTD to be on longer or simply not show highlights of every match played? Or, dare I say, cut out a lot of the unnecessary chatter and interviews?

As is often the case there were bookings and missed fouls that video evidence may yet see punished. Schweinsteiger of Man United is in the frame for his elbow in the face of West Ham's Reid, however Fellaini isn't for his stamp, which also went unpunished at the time. While WBA's McClean should have seen a red card and not just a yellow for his challenge on Dembele of Spurs.
Next week, penalties, perhaps ?


For those of you who missed the bus from Inverurie to Annan at the weekend (see last weeks Scottish Cup action reply) you would have been more distraught, as the replay was a late postponement due to high winds. As Annan is not actually in the highlands but close to the English border the obvious headline "High Winds in the Highlands" didn't apply. 
You Loco fans keen to know how they fair, the game is due to take place this evening.

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