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https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/s/11RyCQEqpb As the ball comes towards him he lifts his hands up, instigating the contact. It was more hand to ball than ball to hand. If his arms were by his side he could have chested it. It's not like the ball was slammed into him. If a defender does that in the box that's a penalty. Dermot Gallagher on Refwatch agreeing with the ref and VAR is entirely predictable.

The documentary on his life is a proper heartbreaker.

It's from a tribute video and album called A Black and White Night. Roy Orbison had a resurgence in the late 80s with the Travelling Wilburys (Dylan, Petty, Harrison and Lynne), a couple of hits including I Drove All Night, and this video with Springsteen and others. Sadly, he died not long afterwards.

That is the correct law, but it was incorrectly applied in this case. That's the law for accidental handball. But they failed to give any attention to Maguire's handball, which came about after he moved his hands towards the ball. They were not in what refs normally consider in a natural position by his side, so the ref and VAR should not have ruled it to be accidental. Still, it was Old Trafford aka Howard Webb's home ground, where dodgy refereeing interpretations are routine.

That's Ian Hutchinson, not Stewart Houston. Apologies if this has already been pointed out. We need to alert that publication (Goal?) and get them to correct their mistake.

Harsh on Marcel. Don't disagree on Gusto. Whatever happened to him 'agreeing to join City' as reported in that Xitter post a couple of months ago in this thread?

Give him time. He could turn into another Piazon.

Yes. Terrific debut.

Found this on reddit. Amazing.

As erskblue mentioned above: Big Micky with Brian Kilcline of Coventry. Two massive blokes who were as hard as they looked. As was Big Doug Rougvie.

He did, but Clough had other ideas. He was a revelation as a CB, until he joined up with Ally McLeod for the 78 WC. As I'm sure you'll remember.

The player list is, err, back to front. And it looks weird having your tallest players at either end of the back row.

Wahey. Triple Kenny Burns in the quote. He was a hard b@stard, but also - under Clough - became a quality CB. Won 2 European Cups, after all.

Correct. A true hard man from an era when they were plentiful. Progressed from sideburns to a full beard to give himself a proper caveman look. Sadly died in his early 40s.

This legendary hardman was a true pioneer. Anyone remember him?