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Anyone who has ever played football knows that's the kind of contact that can knock you seriously off your stride if you are running at pace, definite foul. It may not look much but unlike other instances involving Bale this season that is sufficient contact to be deemed a foul.

MyBrokenKnees

A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »

The arm across his chest and knee to the leg happened at the same time



How is that not a foul unless you are claiming that the arm across the chest should have kept Bale upright after he got a knee in the leg?

Look he ran through the defender! Defo free out.

KingdomYid

Clear penalty this one, it was not a dive. Bale has dived before but this time he was wrongly penalised.

A Dub in Glasgo

MyBrokenKnees wrote: »

That must be the most dangerous thing I have ever seen in a football match :rolleyes:

A foul does not need to be dangerous, maybe you should watch and play football a bit longer :pac:

KingdomYid

MyBrokenKnees wrote: »

Look he ran through the defender! Defo free out.

Now I know you are just trolling

MyBrokenKnees

A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »

A foul does not need to be dangerous, maybe you should watch and play football a bit longer :pac:

Look at my name I know about knee contact :cool::pac:

theteal

A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »

The arm across his chest and knee to the leg happened at the same time

How is that not a foul unless you are claiming that the arm across the chest should have kept Bale upright after he got a knee in the leg?

You need a better angle on that pic. There's another bit of daylight for Bale to throw himself through before making contact with the arm - which if he hadn't fallen would have still made contact and very likely could have won him a penalty.

This has been going on all day and been seen enough times for people to make their own minds up about what they see. What I see is:

a) the knee contact as Gardiner was retracting his leg, definitely not enough so send someone, let alone a strong athlete, flying. My opinion is that Bale felt this and that's the excuse he needed.

b) second contact, Bale starts the dive, leaves his right leg extended and Gardiners other foot makes contact here

c) Bale's left leg, which was going to be his next weight bearing limb and was not affected by any of the contact, instead of landing naturally and continuing the usual running action suddenly changes to not land in an effort to become part of and emphasise the dive.

The arm contact happens somewhere between b and c.

I'm tired so I'll just end with a point I made earlier: the knee contact is not what made Gareth Bale go down, Gareth Bale is what made Gareth Bale go down.

Paully D

It was a penalty for me. Said it at the time and still say it after seeing God knows how many replays since.

Bale can count himself extremely unfortunate to have been booked for diving there.