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So you think that if you polled three groups of people: - Albion fans - Palace fans - Other football fans ...on whether it was a penalty or not, you’d get the same result from each group?

Lest we forget... https://www.change.org/p/football-assosiation-ban-christian-benteke-and-fine-liverpool-fc-6-points

I had a similar thought a little while earlier whilst doing something else, and meant to come back and post it. This has reminded me. The difference between Zaha and many others who "go down easily", including our own, is that with Zaha it seems that earning a penalty is his end game. It's what...

There wasn't too much outrage at Izquierdo's frankly ridiculous dive in the same game.

Amen brother.

I'm saying it's a dive. I'm saying there is no chance that there will be retrospective action. I'm saying that if that was Knockaert most of us would have a different view: "there was some slight contact, he was running fast and off balance" etc.

I'm not justifying him. I'm merely saying that as Albion fans with an in-built hatred of Crystal Palace and Zaha, we're not best placed to judge. And I stand by my comment that most of us would view the same incident differently if it were an Albion player involved.

Because we see it time and time again: football fans are largely incapable of judging without bias. It's why nearly all Albion fans thought Dale Stephens should not have been sent off, but nearly everyone else though a red was right. It's why nearly all Albion fans thought Hemed was treated...

No chance whatsoever. I'll also add that if that was Knockaert in the dying stages of the game tomorrow, 95%+ of Albion fans would say it was a penalty.