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Chelsea broke their transfer ban it seems, with the signing of Howard Webb. He did well for them Id say.
Nonsense. As I've written elsewhere in the thread, I was as close to the incident as Webb and I would not have given the penalty.
Watching MOTD last night, I had the advantage of seeing the incident in slow motion from 4 different angles. One of those angles showed that Carvalho had made contact with Keane. Keane carried on a further stride before going down making it look like a dive.
Referees do not have the advantage of instant replays. Unless the referee is absolutely sure that there has been contact, he cannot give a penalty. I would rather referees err on the side of the defence rather than give dubious penalties such as the one Webb gave last year at OT, the one away at Seville, and the Ronaldo dive at WHL.
Perhaps football needs to follow cricket, tennis, rugby and American football in allowing the captain/manager a limited number of 'challenges' that will be referred to an 'umpire' with access to replays.