This season in the championship it is near on impossible to get a penalty from an infringment and I for one am pleased. We are not the premiership with TV scrutiny at every moment, this is the physical diehard championship. Last night there were two 'modern day' incidents with Sheff Utd where even our fans thought it was a penalty but because of the theatricals and blatant diving referees have no alternative than to dismiss any physical call for a penalty. As we saw against M'boro we got a penalty for hand ball and that seems the only way you get a penalty these day and good on it. The championship is blood and thunder and if the ref gave penalties for every physical challenge it would mean results would be 6-5 with 4 penalties each. The refs are doing the best job by completely ignoring any claim.
I know it’s not quite your point but They weren’t penalties last night.
The first, EMC didnt pull him back or push him over, it’s not a non-contact sport.
The 2nd one. There was a video angle shown a couple of times where you can see him dive.
*if I watch them back again and change my mind that’s allowed too!
Campbell genuinely dived, or if I'm being generous, slipped. And that's taking aside that I detest the guy.
However look at some of the ones we've had not given this season. MVE was literally wrestled to the floor yards from goal and it's not even deemed a foul.
The first one, Mason-Clark puts his arm on their player but its not enough contact to go to ground so never a pen.
The second one, Thomas swings his leg out, clumsily, and Campbell see's his chance to go down after he knocked the ball too far forward. There was *some* contact with Thomas's foot but he had already started to go down.