Dermot Gallagher

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On Sky, weekend decisions review.
Correct to book Barnes. Doesn’t see the elbow or the head rub whilst Ash is underneath the muppet.
No penalty. Long was backing into him.
No diving.

Doesn't comment on their offside goal.

Definitely one for the pr1ck list.

[ewanrob]

Shocking, Kevin Long backing into defender !!

[ClaretTony]

Doesn't comment on their offside goal

He does - he says Lowton is playing him onside

[ClaretTony]

This, by the way, is the same Dermot Gallagher who thought Arsenal's pen on the Turf last season was a correct decision and also thought it was a correct decision to disallow Calvert-Lewin's goal yesterday against Spurs.

[Aclaret]

Gallagher is "one of the boys " what do you expect.

[dsr]

It might be easier to change the rule to "whenever there is contact, a free kick will be given to whoever throws himself to the floor first; unless the player who remains standing is clearly the higher paid".

Everton suffered from that yesterday. Tottenham players, like Arsenal, throw themselves on the floor at any excuse, and if there has been contact (and sometimes if there hasn't), the free kick is given. When two players challenge for a header, and neither falls over, how often is a free kick given? And yet for the same challenge, if one (eg. an Arsenal player) makes no attempt to challenge and merely sees how far he can dive, then it's a free kick. If they want to give free kicks for every slight contact, then it ought to be every slight contact - not just the ones where the cheat throws himself down. The way things are at present means people who don't dive, are penalised.

[MrTopTier]

Mark Halsey in his whistleblower column said Dyche is spot on about cheating and diving and the Long incident should have been a penalty. He also alluded to the fact(my interpretation)that Dyche needs the support of a top manager to come out and say the same as Dyche and then maybe people will start to take notice.

[tiger76]

Mark Halsey in his whistleblower column said Dyche is spot on about cheating and diving and the Long incident should have been a penalty. He also alluded to the fact(my interpretation)that Dyche needs the support of a top manager to come out and say the same as Dyche and then maybe people will start to take notice.

Kudos to Mark Halsey for calling out the 'cheats' this is the same Arsenaholes who had 3 players booked for diving against Huddersfield a couple of weeks ago.

There is more chance of Lord Lucan emerging than a top manager breaking ranks,i gleefully await the day when karma bites one of them on the rear,but this might be a long wait sadly.

[Erasmus]

It seems like there is a clash of footballing cultures. If you ever watch French or German football on BT, it is clear that diving and exaggeration of the pain inflicted by tackles is almost second nature and not regarded as a particular problem. The game is far less physical as well to the point that there is very little by way of proper tackling.

In Britain, particularly in the Football League, there is much less cheating and where it does occur players and spectators really don't like it.

Arsenal are a European team playing in the English League, I don't think there was a single British player for them on Saturday, and so inevitably they tend to be cheats. It's not that they are bad people, it's just the footballing culture they have been brought up in. Burnley are a very British team with a more British style of play and British footballing values. Hence the differences of perspective.

I am not anti-European in any shape or form, but in terms of footballing values and culture I much prefer the British way.

[NL Claret]

It seems like there is a clash of footballing cultures. If you ever watch French or German football on BT, it is clear that diving and exaggeration of the pain inflicted by tackles is almost second nature and not regarded as a particular problem. The game is far less physical as well to the point that there is very little by way of proper tackling.

In Britain, particularly in the Football League, there is much less cheating and where it does occur players and spectators really don't like it.

Arsenal are a European team playing in the English League, I don't think there was a single British player for them on Saturday, and so inevitably they tend to be cheats. It's not that they are bad people, it's just the footballing culture they have been brought up in. Burnley are a very British team with a more British style of play and British footballing values. Hence the differences of perspective.

I am not anti-European in any shape or form, but in terms of footballing values and culture I much prefer the British way.

On the stats site I use for having a bet Burnley are currently joint 6th with (funnily enough) Liverpool on 164 fouls. Arsenal are 16th with 200. Burnley are a physical team is a myth, Sky and the media have jumped on the back of Klopp's incoherent post match comments earlier in the month.

Mike Halsey's comments contradict those of Gallagher.

[bfcjg]

Gallaghers a knob,a bald headed knob at that. He won't slag friend Friend off.

[Juan Tanamera]

Is Gallagher the ref's boss?

[Woodleyclaret]

A useless ref back in the day.Obviously he still is a pillock

[Cheshireclaret]

The most neutral, fence-sitting review of refereeing decisions you’re ever likely to see, right across the entire section.

I stuck with it and waited for this buffoon’s review of Kevin Friend’s performance but it became simply laughable when he said Lowton played Iwobi onside, seconds before they produced a graphic that clearly demonstrated enough of Iwobi was offside to mean the goal should have been disallowed. Much wailing about how we could not ever expect an official to call that (minutes after much adoration for an official who’d managed similar) and frankly the entire thing was utterly pointless.

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He does - he says Lowton is playing him onside

4 out of 4 wrong then.