Originally Posted by
Superhoops
I have posted something like this ages ago, but when we go to live games, we all have an immediate view as to whether an incident is a penalty of not and your view depends on a number of things which I believe are in ths order:
- the team you are supporting
- how much you love/hate the team against who the decision is given
- the vantage point from which you see the incident
- the score in the game at the time
Last week Ireland conceeded a stonewall penalty against Slovakia. How did we react? - Well played Dunne/McShane! - Get up you fu*kin Sloakian waster! etc. etc. Had exactly the same decision been given at the other end of the field, how do you think we would have reacted?