I've seen the 3 Forest non penalties and TBH I wouldn't give the first two. But Ashley Young could well have set a new record as the first player to give away three penalties in a game.
Taking Forest's non pens in order.
There is undoubtedly contact in the first one, but as I keep saying 'contact does NOT equal a foul' and yer man goes down like the fella from Platoon. Why his arms come swinging out like that and he looks like he has been shot I will never know. That alone means he doesn't deserve a penalty, but even so I don't think there was enough contact there for a penalty. If you start to give stuff like that then it's open season for diving in the penalty box, or throwing yourself to the ground at the slightest touch. and **** knows no one likes diving. We can't all sit here and curse at players diving and then say they should get a penalty for the slightest touch in the box.
The second one is very subjective, I THINK (I haven't seen a full video of it only a few stills) Youngs arm is up, but it is a result of his leg being up trying to block the cross/shot and thus I reckon is probably in what they call a "natural position". Your arm comes up as a counter balance when you lift your leg at that speed. We have all seen them given, and we've seen the first one given too, but I think not giving it was the right call.
The last one is a foul all day long. The ref says he got the ball. Ehhh, yeah, he did, he got the ball THROUGH Callum Hudson Odoy's foot. That'll be a foul. I can understand the ref missing that as it is close and hard to spot at full time, but ehhh VAR That. Is. Your. Job!
Nothing will happen about it all though. The PL will fine Forest for their tweet and PGMOL will continue as they have done all season, serially ruining games week in week out. If club's wanted to do anything about VAR the time to do it was when Liverpool got royally shafted at Spurs. That shambles was the time to say "hold on, you boys are making a mess of this." Almost every dodgy VAR call you can at least make an argument for the decision, like I did above, but the Liverpool one was a totally different kettle of fish. It was VAR and the referee literally not knowing what they were looking at and being on different pages. Subjective calls happen all the time. We probably disagree on some of those Forest penalties, but the Liverpool one was a procedural **** up, everyone agrees it was a goal. But instead of realising that it would come back to bite them eventually clubs decided it was easier to laugh at Liverpool and now it's too late. You need another decision along the lines of that to be able to do something about it. Otherwise the PL/PGMOL can rightly point to the fact they got away with that so why should a bad offside or missed pen suddenly be treated differently.
Speaking of jammy bastards (again)
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No doubt he'll be fighting fit and wanting to make up for lost time in the home game against Spurs the week after
That was my thoughts exactly, albeit I was more annoyed that Arsenal got to face Chelsea without their best player.
Ohh and I would say ETH is away regardless of what he does for the rest of the season. His only hope is win over City in FAC, a few decent performances between now and then and the new guys to accept that part of the blame lay with the old structure of the club. Even so, it's probably easier just to fire him and move on. The question is, who do you get?
And who do WH get? Talk of Almorion. I don't think Moyesy has done a bad job, but he has probably taken the club as far as he can. There aren't huge numbers of decent managers out there though.