[jambutty]

Originally Posted by mthead

Yeah I agree it does defeat the object Cashie.When all said and done over a season it usually balances itself out anyway,your team not getting a penalty or the other team getting one in dodgy circumstances.Not only that what would we have to talk about over a pint It would take all the debate side of the game away.I think its all the fun of being into footie having a good old post match chin wag

So because it is thought that over a season things USUALLY balance out it is OK to carry on as we are doing? USUALLY isn’t good enough today! Imagine if that attitude applied to other walks of life. You get short changed in a shop but the shopkeeper comes back with “It’ll balance out over the year because another shop might give you more change than you should have got.” There are no concrete statistics to verify the “it’ll balance out over a season” claim. There is a lot of evidence to suggest that some big clubs like Man U, Chelsea, Arsenal etc are more likely to get a penalty when playing at home than the opposition.

On Saturday Watford got their first penalty of the season and you can bet your sweet life they had many un-rewarded legitimate claims in previous games.

Because you and your mates will not have anything to talk about after a match is a pretty lame excuse for not doing something positive about ‘penalties’.