Vambogills
Vital Football Hero
Let's be fair. We've only said nice things about our manager since he became our manager. Even then it's still a 48/52% splitI've been reading the thread on the Lincoln board about this and they are very unkind about our manager! Oh and most think it was at best a very soft pen but Jackson gave the ref a reason to give it
The problem is that refs seem to have gone from one extreme to the other.
It used to be that they were less likely to give a foul in the box that they happy to give on the halfway line because of the consequences I.e. a probable goal.
Now it seems that they are looking to give any sort of contact in the box, ‘fouls’ that would almost certainly not be given elsewhere on the pitch.
It’s as if refs are looking to give pens.
So in that respect if you put your arms on a player in the box you run the risk of the ref giving a penalty, or being conned into giving one.
So I kind of agree with the Lincoln fans on that.
if we had been awarded that penalty we would almost certainly be saying the same thing.
Thing is if League One had VAR there would have been at least 3 penalty appeals. We would have had another ten minutes of officials pondering a screen added to the game and possibly still be arguing that we should have lost 2-3.
I'd still rather have just one decision to moan about and wait a few games for a soft pen to come our way and even it out.