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Take it we're just going to ignore the penalties others have given away this season? And ignore the fact that both penalties were incredibly soft?
If football is a non contact sport they're both penalties. But it isn't. De Vries dived, and so did Miller for both penalties. There may have been contact but in neither case was it remotely close enough to knock them over.
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No, I'm not ignoring the rest of the season at all. I felt my point regarding the shiteyness of our away form this season made that clear.
I agree that they were soft penalties, but the fact is that he displayed a degree of stupidity in allowing the opposing players to take advantage of his body position in the way that they did. In both cases, I feel the opposing players have a reputation for doing things like that - as Gatheussi is new to the SPL, and Scotland as a whole, it's not really his fault that he clearly didn't know that if you even fart in Miller's direction in the box, he'll hit the turf. He should have known that, though - either his manager, or his team mates, should have told him.