Thousands of pelanties get given

where the attacker has clearly manufactured/feigned contact to con the ref into giving a pelanty. Usually in such a way that the error is not "clear and obvious" so VAR doesnt intervene. But there is absolutely no doubt that the attacker has basically run at the defender with the specific intent of ensuring that he is "caught", so he can chuck himself on the floor. C.f. Anthony Gordon. "There was contact, and he has every right to go down for me, Clive" says every pundit ever.

This one was so evidently not in that category though. He didnt initiate the contact, he tried to hurdle the defender and was obviously caught.

Posted By: Under soil heating on June 17th 2026 at 10:51:52

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Have reviewed the Mbappe penalty appeal (Other Football) - SCC 28, Jun 17, 10:05:37
- It’s about as clear as it gets (Other Football) - jamesward, Jun 17, 10:30:33
  - 💯 (n/m) (Other Football) - footymadman, Jun 17, 16:43:26
  - cleaned him out - completely obvious I thought (Other Football) - paulg, Jun 17, 10:36:09
    - Not sure where Mbappe was supposed to put his foot (Other Football) - jamesward, Jun 17, 10:37:20
      - & it looked like mbappe actually wanted to score rather than fall over (Other Football) - paulg, Jun 17, 10:39:52
        
        Thousands of pelanties get given (Other Football) - Under soil heating, Jun 17, 10:51:52
  - I'm normally very suspicious of any pen award ..... (Other Football) - MORDENCANARY, Jun 17, 10:32:29
    - VMT. Can't stand attackers "initiating contact" to win penalties but this was blatant (Other Football) - JD3, Jun 17, 10:34:03
  - Would imagine he will (Other Football) - SCC 28, Jun 17, 10:31:46
    - i was laughing at some of the decisions by the officials (Other Football) - Tony Martin, Jun 17, 11:08:32
- Yep - dreadful reffing (n/m) (Other Football) - SimonOTBC, Jun 17, 10:13:41
  - The weird part (Other Football) - SCC 28, Jun 17, 10:21:13
- yup, the defenders hip takes out his leg (n/m) (Other Football) - Tony Martin, Jun 17, 10:13:29
  - Contact isn’t in question (Other Football) - SCC 28, Jun 17, 10:18:14
    - defender slid in rashly and made contact, Mbappe didnt initiate it. (n/m) (Other Football) - Tony Martin, Jun 17, 10:24:32
      - Well yes he didn’t initiate it (Other Football) - SCC 28, Jun 17, 10:27:49
- Dive (n/m) (Other Football) - Charles21, Jun 17, 10:06:34

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