BHA's Veltman

[shepperton white]

With all the cheating among players (including one or two of ours), I find it quite nice to read that Veltman said that the ref was correct in disallowing a penalty.  Well done feller

[McBrideOfFrankenstein]

+1

[rogerpbackinMidEastUS]

With all the cheating among players (including one or two of ours), I find it quite nice to read that Veltman said that the ref was correct in disallowing a penalty.  Well done feller

Gone up in my estimation

[Gloucester White]

Might have more respect if he hadn't dived in the first place.

[Dodgin]

Said he didn't dive, I'll have another look.

[SerbianLad]

With all the cheating among players (including one or two of ours), I find it quite nice to read that Veltman said that the ref was correct in disallowing a penalty.  Well done feller

:plus one:
He didn't seem to be protesting at the time either, it was mostly his teammates, if I recall correctly.

[Grassy Noel]

Was this the Robinson incident? If it was  a foul then you would have to credit Robbo with 360 degree vision and I don't even credit him with a right foot. He tripped over a trailing leg but what a decent guy. Respect due.

[SP]

I've read it on their board, Brighton players don't cheat, never have done & never will do.

[Gloucester White]

Wonder what he would have done if the ref had given the penalty?

[Southcoastffc]

I've read it on their board, Brighton players don't cheat, never have done & never will do.

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[Andy S]

He tried to get a penalty and it didn't work.

[Finnans Right Peg]

I think he just thought that robinson would hang out a leg but he didnt,and fair play to him he admitted the ref got it right most players would say nothing

[Surlyc]

I've read it on their board, Brighton players don't cheat, never have done & never will do.

This is very much the theme of the Brighton forums since the game: Fulham are the new Stoke, anti-football, our players would never cheat etc. Ignoring, of course, that Veltman cheated to try and win a penalty.

That said I am not a fan of players going down with non-head injuries and holding their head to stop the game. I know teams keep doing it to us (e.g. Man Utd, Southampton) and it is never called out, but I hate to see it. I've never understood how rugby (a heavy contact sport) can continue the game around injuries but football (a light contact sport) need to stop the game all the time.

[bencher]

Well done for post-facto honesty; but he tried to buy a penalty by expecting some contact and going down. This is a massive problem in the game today. Even a working VAR will unfortunately fail to detect which kind of contact is a foul and which is pre-meditated penalty-searching by the attacker. Jack Grealish does this all over the pitch, KDB did it to buy a penalty against us, Southampton do it just outside the box all game long to get free kicks for JWP. Harry Kane is a master of it. I hate it.

[cookieg]

He admitted leaving his foot in the get a penalty. It didn't happen so he held his hands up and said well done ref. He should be booked retrospectively for diving/trying to con the ref. Nothing noble or gallant about a cheat.

[We Are Premier League]

On a related note, just seen a few replays of the Tete vs Mitoma situation and I think that pen could have been given. Tete touched the ball but he cant pull a shirt like that in the box.

[SerbianLad]

On a related note, just seen a few replays of the Tete vs Mitoma situation and I think that pen could have been given. Tete touched the ball but he cant pull a shirt like that in the box.

Mitoma pushed him a bit as well.
It looks worse in pictures than in videos, the shirt pull was very brief and not strong enough to warrant a penalty. If that was a penalty than we should get about 5 penalties every game, as Mitro is shirt pulled every single time we make a cross.

[FFCBadger]

I've read it on their board, Brighton players don't cheat, never have done & never will do.

This is very much the theme of the Brighton forums since the game: Fulham are the new Stoke, anti-football, our players would never cheat etc. Ignoring, of course, that Veltman cheated to try and win a penalty.

That said I am not a fan of players going down with non-head injuries and holding their head to stop the game. I know teams keep doing it to us (e.g. Man Utd, Southampton) and it is never called out, but I hate to see it. I've never understood how rugby (a heavy contact sport) can continue the game around injuries but football (a light contact sport) need to stop the game all the time.

Yep, this has been winding me up no end this season.
I think they should be using VAR to issue cards for for this kind of cheating - it should be pretty easy to identify

[cookieg]

I've read it on their board, Brighton players don't cheat, never have done & never will do.

This is very much the theme of the Brighton forums since the game: Fulham are the new Stoke, anti-football, our players would never cheat etc. Ignoring, of course, that Veltman cheated to try and win a penalty.

That said I am not a fan of players going down with non-head injuries and holding their head to stop the game. I know teams keep doing it to us (e.g. Man Utd, Southampton) and it is never called out, but I hate to see it. I've never understood how rugby (a heavy contact sport) can continue the game around injuries but football (a light contact sport) need to stop the game all the time.

Yep, this has been winding me up no end this season.
I think they should be using VAR to issue cards for for this kind of cheating - it should be pretty easy to identify

As soon as any player goes down the physio should automatically come on and that player then has to leave to pitch. Defenders go down to take momentum out of an attack if a free kick is conceded. If the defender has to go off then they should defend the free kick with a man less.

[alfie]

I've read it on their board, Brighton players don't cheat, never have done & never will do.

This is very much the theme of the Brighton forums since the game: Fulham are the new Stoke, anti-football, our players would never cheat etc. Ignoring, of course, that Veltman cheated to try and win a penalty.

That said I am not a fan of players going down with non-head injuries and holding their head to stop the game. I know teams keep doing it to us (e.g. Man Utd, Southampton) and it is never called out, but I hate to see it. I've never understood how rugby (a heavy contact sport) can continue the game around injuries but football (a light contact sport) need to stop the game all the time.

Yep, this has been winding me up no end this season.
I think they should be using VAR to issue cards for for this kind of cheating - it should be pretty easy to identify

Yes and our own Mitro went down feigning head injury a few games ago.