doesn't matter, Alumina still dived into himAs they slowed it down on TV, one could clearly see that he dived before any impact was made.
ya but all these IF's. IF Alumina had not dived in from 1/2 step away rooney COULD have controlled the ball and gotten into a scoring chance BUT THEN the defender would have had him covered.Almunia fouled Rooney. It is a penalty. If the ref believed it was scoring chance then he would of given him a red. He however agreed with you that the ball was going out of play and that Rooney would not have retrieved the ball had he not been fouled. The ref still rightly gave the penalty.
IF Rooney did not go down
IF that defender dived and took the ball out
IF IF IF
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