Really clear answer about this play stoppage bullshit. If the ref stops play when montiels gone down from a kick from his own player when arsenal has the ball in the box, what's stopping players from doing that all the time?

[–] nuggsy@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The other thing is ref could have seen it wasn't a head injury and we were in a dangerous position at the time. If he had stopped play all the Arsenal players/fans would be livid for denying us a potential chance.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. It feels like the right call, but if something similar happened to us, I'd want to ref to look after the wellbeing of the player

[–] hangonasecond@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah that's what I was getting at. You elucidated the point much better!