The Mailbox urges Jadon Sancho to stick to his guns in his dispute with Erik ten Hag. Also: why Man Utd are stuck in transfer purgatory; Arsenal's penalty; City and state; and more...
is, like Jonny Nic, way off-base in his missive on intent and the handball rule, while Dale May, Swindon Wengerite is very much on the right track. If a striker shins the ball into the net, we don’t disallow the goal because it wasn’t intentional.
When a defender puts through his own net, we don’t pat him on the head and award an indirect free kick, we chalk up the goal and give the conceding side a restart in the center circle. A wildly dangerous tackle doesn’t become a yellow because the player was looking in the wrong direction. The foul is the foul, and danger to the opposing player, not intent is what’s judged. In the case of a handball in the box, the only standard measured should be “did the offender’s side gain an advantage?” Why should intent come into play at all? Especially when it’s evidently impossible for judges to recognize intent; if they found it easy, we’d see a whole lot more cards for diving. Take Newcastle’s opening goal against Sheffield United as an example. Longstaff scored from an Anthony Gordon assist; Gordon, in turn, had kept the ball from going out of play with a handball, judged by the referee to have been unintentional, and as he was not the scorer, it wasn’t subject to review . I’ll bet you not many Blades supporters would recognize that result as “natural justice.” On the contrary: the goal seems obviously unfair because Gordon gained an unfair advantage by using his hand. A fair handball rule ignores intent, making each player accountable for his body position and movements.…Not an Arsenal or Spurs supporter, so no skin in that particular match at all. But I thought it was a penalty and a pretty clear one at that. The shot was on target, likely going in and his hand stopped it. Close or not, intentional or not, Arsenal were likely denied a goal by the part of Romero’s body that the ball shouldn’t be touching. Seems fair that they get a chance to shoot from 12 yards and also seems fair that Spurs’ keeper has a chance to save it.Rob, Worthing.What an incredible job they are doing, from the owners right down to the lady serving lunch to the players. A ridiculous hit-rate when it comes to buying suitable players, showing how to use scouting and sports science effectively. Everyone they have sold on has been a success at their new club, proving that they trade in excellent footballers . Trossard has been one of the best wingers in the world since before his move and I’m glad the Arsenal fans are also realising it. Then Brighton went and bought Mitoma to replace Trossard… How good is Mitoma?De Zerbi has taken them to a new level. Averaging 3 goals per game. Most goals scored after half-time, that man knows how to read and exploit his opponent’s game. All said, their next three games are going to show us how good they are. But I know we won’t be taking them lightly.I was reflecting on the NLD mails. Most of the players coming in for criticism are those which have moved from a peer and it got me thinking. Among the group of City, United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Spurs, Arsenal it seems to me that Arsenal are really the stand out club when it comes to buying from rivals, particularly from Chelsea. Now, I’d very incredibly sceptical if a fierce rival were willing to give me a player but seemingly Arsenal don’t have this healthy level of paranoia. You’ve got a selling club putting up a decent price and therefore signalling the player is valuable but then seemingly willing to give this valuable player to a rival? Doesn’t add up. Up and coming youth prospect aside where seller and buyer are taking a gamble on potential or benevolently letting the player actually play, I can’t really think of a good reason for buying from a rival, let alone doing so regularly. Seems like a concentration risk to me at Arsenal. I hearby commission F365 to produce a top 10 inter-rival trade analysis scoped to established players and ranked by fee to establish whether there is greater likelihood of success or failure for the buying club. And if your resources permit, an investigation into whether there is an ecosystem of agencies and money men that have vested interests on both sides Regarding RB and his mail about ‘City and the State’ in this morning’s mailbox, I assume he’s got his info from the Athletic article a few days ago. In this article its acknowledged that the UK Foreign Office and the UK Embassy in Abu Dhabi have had discussions, but the article states ‘there is no indication as to what has been said between them’ except the PL charges have been ‘mentioned’. RB thinks a few UK civil servants having talks regarding information that falls into their sphere of work should be headline news, and then proceeds to jump to the conclusion that this is actually the UK government pushing for a favourable outcome as a matter of foreign policy. Based on what actual evidence I have no idea? As regard to 99.9% of City fans saying the club isn’t state owned, maybe RB should of continued reading further into the article where it says the Sheikh is majority shareholder in MCFC and the CFG group, and states ‘it would be legally inaccurate to describe City as state-owned, despite Sheikh Mansour’s prominent political positions in the UAE and Abu Dhabi..’.
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