Talk:Graham Salisbury/@comment-81.155.119.201-20141126112518

Can I say that the criticism Graham Salisbury has received over his decision not to award 'the' penalty in the Huddersfield Town v. Sheffield Wednesday game is a disgrace. Keith Hackett's comments are particularly risible. I was sitting with a regular partner at the match, and we both had an excellent view of the incident, and yet in real time one thought the player 'definitely' dived and the other (myself) thought Huddersfield 'might' have been luckily with the decision. Further, when seen later on television,I noted that even the match commentator's initially were of the opinion that the decision was 'close' and that from the referee's perspective it was understandable why he took the action he did. Only on televisual replay (surely the bane of every match official's life), seen several times, did they conclude that he had probably got it wrong. The money obsessed, black/white, risk averse and zero tolerance culture we now inhabit is the real concern.