Sadly, it’s become accepted. 15 years ago generally punters were up in arms about all such antics, now it’s yet another thing split down the middle. Laser focus on who made contact on who, airbrushing out the weird aspect of the ‘victim’ making a beeline to a location where they hope to be hit.
I can’t think of a football or physiological reason why the left leg shifted way to the left, away from the direction of travel of the ball. These are finely tuned athletes with a career of work on their balance behind them.
Players are now coached to take an unnatural line solely to cause a...
Going against the grain, that was a contrived and unnatural collision, glad it was called a non-pen. That type of winning a pen crept in over recent years, some call it an art form, I call it cheating.
Admittedly and sadly, that’s a pen 90% of the time in the PL, unless we’re the attacker.