Johnny Rotten wrote:A view of what still angers me as an atrocious decision not to award us a late penalty yesterday from a former colleague and manager of mine, since retired, who also doubled up as a football referee assessor:
I have had a look, whereby for the sending off, the attacker was mid-way into the defensive half, on direct route to goal & much space beyond the defender so can see why he sent defender off.
As to the penalty, the Referee had much the same view as the tv camera by looking ‘towards’ the incident, whereby he would have been better placed getting more a side-on view. I think there was contact from the Home defender, though the probable reason why he didn’t give it, is that the Mansfield player went to ground a bit too easily, which always places doubt into the mind of a Referee. He may have also decided that the contact was minimal & therefore not sufficient. If there is any doubt, then a Referee is not likely to give a pen (though we all know some soft ones are given).
Did he not like you, or something?
Ignoring the fact that Davison might be offside, is your former colleague trying to say that Davison didn't go down easily? I'm struggling to see how it is a clear goal scoring opportunity, as the ball is bouncing far above head height, so Davison has to bring it under control and then get into a goalscoring position, all whilst Maris is moving far quicker than him. Even if Maris hadn't got to the ball, he was running down the centre of the pitch, so would have likely done enough to push Davison wide.
On the flip side DKD had the ball under control and is in a goalscoring position.