With the benefit of hindsight, I'm less convinced about Blues' penalty on Saturday. Not the awarding of it - Forssell was clearly fouled twice, rode the first challenge and was then impeded again in the area. Instead, the re-taking of it. If the letter of the law is to be strictly applied, there might be a case for it, but when Arsenal's Lehmann wasn't punished for what was far more movement on - and around - the goalline when Van Nistelroy missed his penalty yesterday, you can see Leeds' point. The problem has been a number of Leeds fans who won't accept that the decision was made - rightly or wrongly - and that the game has gone. Other Leeds fans, of course, while riled by the decision, have accepted it as part and parcel of football, and moved on (and in fact I'm posting this as an apology to one of them!). In the former case, though, I'd remind them that in the corresponding fixture last year we had two good shouts for penalties turned down in the same game. We got on with it; so should they.
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