At first glance, the penalty decision is a simple one with Bassey grabbing Mount and throwing him to the ground.<\/p>\n
Given the Premier League’s stated aim to crackdown on pulling and holding at corners this season, in part brought in to help avoid time being wasted by referees delaying set-pieces being taken to warn the players involved, it was no surprise it was given.<\/p>\n
“Holding happens in different places within the penalty area – sometimes on the ball, sometimes off the ball and it varies in terms of extremes,” Howard Webb, the chief refereeing officer said before the start of the season.<\/p>\n
“What we’ve said to the officials is if you get one of those situations where one player is clearly dragging another one to the floor in an extreme non-football action, even if it’s off the ball, we expect the referee to see it.”<\/p>\n
The complication comes from the fact Shaw also seemed to be fouling Muniz, just behind the Bassey and Mount incident.<\/p>\n
The United left-back had both arms wrapped around the Fulham forward and both ended up on the ground.<\/p>\n
While Shaw’s grab was considered a foul, the penalty was still awarded because Bassey was deemed to have committed his foul first.<\/p>\n
But not everyone agrees.<\/p>\n
“The two fouls are simultaneous,” former England goalkeeper Rob Green told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n
“Shaw has two arms round his opponent in a holding action at the same time as Bassey does. So a penalty seems harsh.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At first glance, the penalty decision is a simple one with Bassey grabbing Mount and throwing him to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-92889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}