Our keeper touches the ball - and their lad makes contact. I think if the keeper goes through to clear the ball he will do serious damage to Vardy. Thus he did well to pull out. But Vardy goes down.
Refs really need to get up to speed.
This is what I don't get either. Mignolet goes to kick the ball, makes full contact, and then the 'momentum' of a swing of the leg, which is required to kick a football, means he catches an opponent. Isn't it obvious that can and will happen many times on the pitch over 90 minutes. It's part of football being a contact sport.
Likewise with Vardy. He doesn't make any contact with the ball, yet runs into our player, whether it's just the leg on Mignolet's follow through, or another part of his body, thereby, surely that in itself is a foul. If you 'play the man' and not the ball, then that's a foul.
It's the same as when a forward leaves a leg out to make contact with the defender's leg, and then goes over, that's not a foul, or at least it shouldn't be, because at the moment the defender makes his leg movement, the attacker's leg wasn't there to be caught.
I don't know whether Mignolet pulled out (or at least was half hearted) through fear of damage to himself or Vardy, but if he'd have made full contact with the ball, the momentum of the kick would have still seen him make contact with Vardy, likewise if Vardy had have touched (as Mignolet did) the ball, he would have still then made contact with Mignolet. Would that have been a foul on Mignolet? Highly doubtful. In fact, that would have probably also been a penalty as Vardy (not Mignolet) would have touched the ball, and then made contact with Mignolet, and most probably have gone down, and Mignolet would have been punished 'for being there for Vardy to make contact with, and would have been regarded as stopping Vardy's progress'.
How many of these situations do we see outside the penalty area during the course of 90 minutes, and how few get awarded as a foul against the player who actually touched the ball?
Just like goalkeepers should do their homework on penalty takers, referees should also be aware of players, like Vardy, who 'buy' fouls or create a situation where they 'technically' get fouled.
As it's all supposedly about intent, then surely the intent 'to get fouled' should be regarded and considered just as wrong as the intent 'to foul', and if there is no intent to 'get fouled', then the lack of intent 'to foul', should be weighted equally too.
