Roma Penalty Ridiculous - Mancini
04/22/2004. Lazio coach Roberto Mancini has hit out at the award of a penalty to Roma in yesterday´s 1-1 draw.
Gianluca Paparesta pointed to the spot after Bernardo Corradi had hand-balled in the area, but Mancini said. " You can´t give a penalty for that. How can it be a clear penalty when there are four men all pushing for the ball? It was in no way voluntary!
" I won´t sit here talking about the referee because this is a ridiculous penalty and it´s not even worth it.
" I have been a football player and you have to raise your arms to a degree in order to jump, especially when you are being pushed."
" The rules state that the handling offence has to be voluntary and it certainly was not intentional."
Je viens de voir ça sur http://www.soccerage.com/en/13/u5774.html mais j´ai pas traduit :
Roma´s Fabio Capello disagreed, saying: " I saw it from the bench that Corradi intentionally struck the ball with his arm and the linesman did well to spot it. We can´t be blamed if Corradi decided to take up volleyball."
SA Italy