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Originally Posted by Russ B
You do know what sort of player Essien is though, right?
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Reputation? Ronaldo has a reputation for diving, does that mean that every time he gets tackled, he has dived?
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Originally Posted by gazzae
To me it look like Giggs is shaping side foot the ball
Then essien makes contact with the back of his leg causing him to fall
Look where the ball is, why would giggs need to slide to get it.
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To me that is an extremely weak claim for a penalty. Even Giggs didn't think that it was a foul. I do think that Essien was just doing what a defender should do, challenging him for the ball. Okay, on a tv reply, where you can keep going back and forth, there may be a grey area, where you can try to argue for it, but I can definitely see why nothing was given by the officials.