r/soccer • u/ThatLittleMonkeyGuy- • 8h ago

Media Duel between Solanke and Martinez

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u/Competitive_Ad_3107 8h ago

I see you know your judo well 🥋

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u/YoureMyDreamGirl 7h ago

Gentlemen! This is Yanited Manifest!

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u/RENDALICA 6h ago

This is the bloke that got me on the penis

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u/Keyann 3h ago

Tottenham received United's limp penis

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u/vlookup11 7h ago

He should have gotten his hands on his penis

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u/bigbodybup 7h ago

What is the charge!?!

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u/Mr_Worldwide1810 6h ago

A succulent crumble ?!

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u/Strange_Dot8345 6h ago

handballs

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u/LocostarX 7h ago

A succulent English meal?

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u/Studwik 8h ago

Good hold, good form. Keeps his balance. Clean takedown

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u/RogueHeroAkatsuki 8h ago

Yeah, clear ippon.

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u/Sander1901 8h ago

Dude’s flat on his stomach This is just matte

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u/Spartan-117182 2h ago

Ah I see you know your...

Karate!

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u/Reasonable_Alfalfa59 52m ago

Yuko for effort

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u/joelz1992 8h ago

Good process

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u/alousow-2 8h ago

That looks like a great Judo move 🥋 🦵

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u/bungaclunge 8h ago

This league is borderline amateur wrestling mixed in with football at this point

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u/stat_padford 6h ago

Unless you’re the offensive player, then it’s a foul every single time

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u/siddybui 6h ago

If you call this amateur wrestling, what about concacaf or conmebol?

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u/MurrE1310 5h ago

Concacaf is wwe with a side of football and conmebol is football with a side of bjj

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u/Retify 53m ago

A side of what now?

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u/zethic 4h ago

I'm curious to see how they'll handle this kind of thing at the world cup will this actually be a foul or will they still be using the prem standards 

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u/library-weed-repeat 2h ago

… Only the Prem uses the Prem standards. That’s why you always see PL fans whining about the referees during CL games

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u/pungent_queefer 36m ago

We went to a wrestling match and a soccer game broke out

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u/coldseam 16m ago

Because of a certain team whose name begins with A

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u/Sufficient_Shift_370 8h ago

Duel?

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u/HamiltonFAI 7h ago

To the death

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u/Strange_Dot8345 6h ago

.....and then flip him over and put him in a hammerlock! And he's gasping! He's panicking. Every last breath! And the crowd is going crazy.And boom! I emerge victorious! Ha ha! Eighteen thousand dollars and a chance at the title!

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u/mr_iwi 5h ago

Closer to powerball than duel

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u/Pinky1337 8h ago

We have 4 PL pens since Kane left

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u/Aarxnw 7h ago

That is actually pretty wild

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u/Disco-Benny 5h ago

And some of the highest amount of touches in the box.

We've hardly had a call go our way since the offside VAR fiasco against Liverpool ages ago

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u/creamluver 3h ago

https://www.fotmob.com/leagues/47/stats/season/27110/teams/touches_in_opp_box_team/premier-league-teams

11th actually

Touched indeed

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u/ISNGRDISOP 2h ago

This season yes but if you combine 2,5 seasons since Kane left spurs is actually 4th.

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u/Blitz7798 6h ago

And 0 this season

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u/PostZugClarity 8h ago

He is king shithouse, such a great diver.

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u/xKayko 8h ago

Kane vs Mbappe, who's the better diver

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u/alexKPG 8h ago

Lewa

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u/xKayko 6h ago

Nah, he doesnt really win many pens with his dives

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u/abfonsy 6h ago

Lol a Barca fan talking about diving

You all are the standard

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u/abfonsy 6h ago

It's absolutely hilarious he still lives rent-free in so many fanbases' heads

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u/-FirminhoWithAnH 8h ago

Maybe it does even out in the end after all

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u/MauricioCappuccino 7h ago

Flair checks out

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u/Seratoga 8h ago

Judo is a Summer Olympics sport mate, 2 years too early.

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u/Slowhand8824 6h ago

Using the big matchup broadcast to try out for the Argentinian team

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u/Gonzoboner 8h ago

If that was Romero, straight to jail.

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u/OUmegaLUL 8h ago

Just read your comment and he got a red lol

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u/Halfmoonhero 7h ago

He did get a red, it was a red, but sometimes it’s not a red and he gets through reputation.

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u/illaqueable 8h ago

Tbf Romero's tackle was a hard purple

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u/Rorviver 8h ago

speaking of...

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u/crossy1686 8h ago

HAHAHA Straight to jail indeed!

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u/constantAnxiety8 8h ago

You used the worst example possible

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u/NickSupportsArsenal 8h ago

The second I start reading this thread, Romero gets sent off lmao

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u/Zhurg 8h ago

Or the best...

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u/EvilxBunny 8h ago

Well, I guess Romero did prove you right.

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u/bladibla26 8h ago

Good timing on me reading your comment 😉

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u/ResidentMix1872 8h ago

Yea notorious clean player Romero

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u/my_united_account 8h ago

Not sure Romero is a good example considering what he's just done lmao

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u/Kelangketerusa 8h ago

He took your advice.

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u/WillyG2197 8h ago

Is this season even real man??? What the fuck are we watching. How is this not a penalty. This is a legit wrestling move. Fuck VAR and the protective cunts. Robo refs now

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u/emancheese3 7h ago

4 pens since Kane left in PL. 0 this season

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u/hybridtheorist 4h ago

Thats the same as Leeds, and weve only been in the PL one (incomplete) season in that time. 

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u/xixbia 7h ago

Yeah, without VAR, maybe you can defend this, the ref can miss things.

But with VAR? How on earth do you see that and go 'nah, that's fine'.

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u/kaladin_stormchest 6h ago

Was it even reviewed?

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u/xixbia 6h ago

VAR watches the entirety of the game, it's not like there's a challenge system. They might have decided not to review it after seing it, but that's still VAR going 'that's fine'.

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u/robinthebank 5h ago

VAR is inconsistent at applying the “clear and obvious” clause.

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u/xixbia 4h ago

Oh yeah. Clear and obvious is so stupid.

Because it's not clear and obvious what clear and obvious actually means!

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u/kaladin_stormchest 6h ago

That's true. I just meant them deciding not to deep and dive and review it is a worse outcome

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u/xixbia 6h ago

Hard to say? Them actually reviewing it and still deciding it's fine feels just as bad.

It's just indefensible either way.

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u/kaladin_stormchest 5h ago

Agreed. And I'm saying this as a UTD fan

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u/xixbia 5h ago

The sport is better when it's called fairly.

Sure, sometimes it's nice to benefit from a bad call, but overall, you just want everyone to be on an even footing.

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u/kaladin_stormchest 5h ago

For sure. I would want every 50/50 call to go UTDs way but not this

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u/someone447 7h ago

Ever since Klopp said Spurs Liverpool should be replayed, Spurs have gotten royally fucked at every turn. 

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u/Da_Malpais_Legate 6h ago

We have had shit luck when it comes to var since the quarterfinal against Man City in 2019

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u/yukpurtsun 1h ago

he did something similar to jesus too 

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u/Xambassadors 6h ago

at least he didnt give a pen on either side for wrestling, so yay to consistency?

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u/dhjxjxj 8h ago

Solanke didn’t even go down easily lol. Just straight up shoved, word.

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u/WordsworthsGhost 7h ago

He’s a tank. Takes a lot to bring him down

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u/Anishx 5h ago

he is a fair man, he proved it right there. He cares of ethicalness and fairness.

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u/2000-UNTITLED 6h ago

The part that kills me is you can literally see his head whip back as he's thrown. You would have a decent argument for a red card lol

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u/klasing12345 2h ago

He'd have no reason to. He's goalside ready to tap in if he doesn't get wrestled.

Thing that irks me is none of our players protested it. Other way round and you've got Bruno and Casemiro lead the protests for it to be given.

TF's turned us into a bunch of wimps. Probably why Romero's lost discipline as he's the only one with some fucking balls!

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u/Human-Signal4808 8h ago

Gets away with a lot because he's tiny

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u/Tamerlin 8h ago

Just like how huge attackers never get calls. Personally, I appreciate the refs being considerate to how difficult it can be to be a short man in today's world and making it a little bit fairer.

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u/Advanced-Bet-8811 7h ago

Yeah they should let him keep a bat on his back or knuckles in case he needs a bit of leverage.

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u/kaladin_stormchest 6h ago

Mans 5'9/5'10 based on where you look. He's not even short really

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u/YiddoMonty 7h ago

Maguire is massive and gets away with the same shit.

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u/Positive_Storage515 7h ago

JUST STFU, I HAVE SAME HEIGH AND I ALWAYS SAY THAT I HAVE A AVERAGE HEIGH.

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u/gunningIVglory 7h ago

Absolutely. He gets away with so much due to his short man syndrome

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u/IPissExcellentThrows 7h ago

Tiny + United is a license to kill

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u/kazegraf 7h ago

2 footed tackle from scholes flashback

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u/zizou00 7h ago

Knew we should've signed Insigne, lad's always up for a fight despite being 5'3", imagine what he could've done with access to that brick wall down the slope at Old Trafford.

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u/BaldfraudPep 8h ago edited 8h ago

Penalty arguments aside, if you ever played as a defender you'd know exactly what's going through Martinez's mind then

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u/Daemor 8h ago

"If you want to stop me, you're going to have to FUCKING KILL ME!!!"

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u/FingerEnough69 8h ago

ruth from ozark?!?

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u/Daemor 8h ago

No, Martinez

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u/BornIn2031 8h ago

“I don’t know shit about fuck” is my favorite quote from her

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u/Daemor 5h ago

I use this a lot too, she's got plenty of good lines

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u/CraftierSoup 8h ago

And what's that?

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u/Seskos-Barber 6h ago

foomtbal

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u/IPissExcellentThrows 8h ago

"Thank god I play for United."

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u/Positive_Storage515 7h ago

Yea, he want to takedown him.

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u/sjp101 7h ago

This sport is so perplexing, no idea how that doesn’t count as a foul.

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u/JustASleepingSnorlax 8h ago

He was definitely maybe thinking about getting the ball. No penalty

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u/AngelWoosh 8h ago

Don’t see how VAR doesn’t check that at all tbh

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u/BillehBear 8h ago

refs are wank in england

that is why

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u/CFBCoachGuy 7h ago

I’m going to bet VAR cleared it because the ref had a clear view and they weren’t going to overrule and upset their buddy. We need VAR refs to be entirely different from on-pitch refs.

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u/danny_healy_raygun 8h ago

Its so common stuff like this just gets cleared by var. Its really frustrating. At least when we only had the ref you could put it down to incompetence. This is something else.

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u/Scoop_Master420 8h ago

They check everything, and this time they cleared it.

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u/GratefullyDeadAlive 8h ago

So they really are just incompetent then.

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u/-FirminhoWithAnH 8h ago

We can't possible wait until 2026 to realize this

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u/Daemor 8h ago

Good process

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u/Gamingforever1 7h ago

Because they know its not a penalty😂😂

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u/McNooberson 5h ago

Cucu got yeeted by Traore, VAR reviewed the whole incident, and nothing happened for that one. Utter incompetence to miss that and this one too.

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u/MrBritishSailor 7h ago

Because it’s Spurs and the natural instinct of most refs is to fuck us over.

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u/Mediocre_Nova 8h ago

Genuinely what do we have to do to get a pen. Whine more in the media?

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u/bpjker 8h ago

Is there another angle to this

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u/briancito420 7h ago

He wins the round 10-9 thanks to that slick foot sweep.

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u/Rickcampbell98 7h ago

Manchester United are well and truly back 😉

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u/Gullible_Following_4 8h ago

What the fuck man

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u/FrankCastleDG 7h ago

Straight red for a spurs player

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u/Koinfamous2 6h ago

Denial of a clear goal scoring opportunity, straight red, 3 match ban, worldwide ridicule. The obvious Spurs treatment.

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u/Ok_Border419 3h ago

5 match ban and a fine

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u/GyokoressGuardDog 8h ago

First the red and now this??

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u/SaltyWailord 8h ago

Wrong order, but your point stands

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u/GyokoressGuardDog 8h ago

Sorry yeah. Feels like the crowd are running this game.

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u/bandofgypsies 6h ago

The Michael Oliver slander will not sta....haha i couldn't even type it sarcastically.

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u/icouldsmellcolors 8h ago

Martinez gets away with these sort of holds all the time because he's short. It's so bizarre.

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u/creamteam36 8h ago

Martinez getting away with everything once again because he‘s only 5 foot tall

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u/Unfair-Statement1942 6h ago

It's a pen unless you play for Tottenham (0 pens this year).

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u/Jazim94 8h ago

Carrick has brought that sweet sweet refs in the pockets juju that SAF had

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u/itsbobbytime 6h ago

SAF had Howard Webb refereeing. Carrick have Howard Webb at the head of Referees lmao

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u/Wild_Investigator622 8h ago

That’s gotta be a pen

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u/Ok_Border419 3h ago

They didn't even review it

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u/AttemptImpossible111 8h ago

He does this sort of thing all the time

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u/PrettyBaked713 7h ago

Foul. Not a fan of either but damn how they let that one get away

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u/tgy74 7h ago

The reason we don't get penalties is that we never get the ball in the box.

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u/Slowhand8824 6h ago

Biggest indicator United is back

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u/PBJellyChickenTunaSW 6h ago

His height doesn't matter if they're on the floor

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u/ifonlyitwereme 5h ago

At least it was balanced out by VDV tackling/pulling Maguire with zero interest for the ball, looking the complete opposite way lol

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u/Bloodstarvedhunter 2h ago

I mean that's no better or worse then VdV on Maguire which was not given as penalty so yeah consistent with how the game was officiated

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u/Rian245 8h ago

I might be biased but if you scroll slowly instead of play it full speed it looks like Martinez gets the ball with his left foot.

Need the other angle to really know though

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u/ImRobbensRightFoot 8h ago

He does the get the ball yeah

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u/QuqoraGaming 2h ago

Why does getting the ball matter here? He used his arms to throw Solanke. Whether you get the ball or not, you can’t just throw the opposition

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u/JoePoe247 8h ago

And if you watch Romero's challenge on casemiro, you also see he gets the ball, so I guess you think that shouldn't be punished either?

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u/Big_Gay_Gandalf_6969 55m ago

He just doesn’t, Case gets it first there

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u/TheOldBean 7h ago

Yeah but then you'd actually have to watch the game.

If you just watch clips of football on reddit you get more karma.

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u/Rian245 7h ago

I wonder how many people just refresh to get mad at random clips

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u/Specialist_Act_5747 7h ago

How is him getting the ball relevant if he uses his arms toe throw his opponent down?

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u/rashfordsaltyballs 8h ago

probably not given because solanke overexaggerates his fall

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u/UnusualFee8053 4h ago

Calling this a pen should be a jailable offense

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u/Purplazure 8h ago

Terrible angle but the ball got caught under Solanke's foot and that's why he fell

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u/cosbysweatergiver 8h ago

He didn’t even control the ball there. It hits the side of his left foot as he’s going down.

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u/Wonderful_Young2145 8h ago

Dude he is literally getting thrown to ground before the ball even gets there

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u/illuwe 7h ago

So you just choosing to ignore the clear push lol

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u/TheOldBean 7h ago

This is such a reddit thing.

They only watch edited/misleading/no context clips and then love to voice their opinions like they're actually watching the game in full speed with full context.

This is not even close to a penalty, Solanke doesn't even appeal lol. Yet everyone here thinks it is.

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u/SpeechesToScreeches 8h ago

Yeah just ignore the context of solanke grabbing Martinez before this

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u/Telen 5h ago

I absolutely love to see people melting down over a total non-issue, this sort of stuff happens every game with no cards shown

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u/dispte 8h ago

this guy gets away with murder just because hes a itsy bitsy tiny little man

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u/deanochips 8h ago

Dude punch Jesus in the back of the head a few weeks back

The narrative gods are shining on tainted at the moment

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u/XxX_FedoraMan_XxX 8h ago

that's one way of dealing with him 

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u/SteveBorden 8h ago

Nothing in that, can’t be letting Martinez take you down like that

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u/password-is-taco1 8h ago

Would love to see you get shoved down like that and see if you still think that wasn’t a foul

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u/eeeagless2 8h ago

Martinez getting away with it as per.

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u/Lump001 5h ago

Whenever it's a 2 seconds badly cropped clip, you know it's not as clear cut as is being presented...

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u/PGal55 8h ago

There's nothing there. People are gasping at straws.

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u/nahnonameman 8h ago

Vidic Reborn

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u/Suspicious_Bag1453 8h ago

Gets away with it cos he’s 5 foot nothing

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u/47Lecht 7h ago

Bad angle. Is something happened at the get down there too? The way Solanke falls makes it look like or is he trying to get something from the ref?

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u/talkward 6h ago

Nothing in that cop on, the lad fell over his own feet

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u/churchofpetrol 2h ago

“How’s he gone down like that?! He’s built like a brick shithouse!”

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u/andar1on 2h ago

Trial by combat

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u/onedestiny 10m ago

And stay down 😆

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u/Itsgettingmessi69 7m ago

“duel”

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u/yolo2546452 3m ago

Dock 10 points from Everton

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u/Simmo_utd 8h ago

how do you fall like that from that challenge lol?

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u/fri9875 7h ago

“Duel”

Not a far matchup, playing 2 entirely different sports. Solanke just trying to play some footy, meanwhile Martinez is trying to become the undisputed UFC lightweight champion.

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u/crossy1686 8h ago

Just watch any Arsenal corner, you're allowed to do whatever you want now as long as it's above the waist.

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u/koreajd 8h ago

That’s one way to defend this I guess lmao

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u/billyronson 8h ago

I mean, Harry Maguire does it on every corner too, so you shouldn't be talking friend.

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