Craig Burley

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8,995 appearances 29 recordings 1 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 2 Sep

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ESPN FC · Real Madrid Dropping Points Like Flies · 10 Apr 2026 podcast

Or our kids are old and it doesn't matter.

Yeah, or the two of you.

Listen, somebody's got to keep the ship afloat.

Exactly, and here we all are.

And if you think we're doing it, you're in trouble.

All right, with both Mbappé and Vinnie embellishing their battles in the box, does this hinder their chance of winning a penalty?

Today's Mbappé challenge could be an example.

Yeah, actually, that's a pretty good point.

Because referees know of reputation.

And the more your reputation goes as somebody that goes to ground easier, the bar gets raised in terms of... I'm not saying that's right, but the bar would certainly get raised when a referee's looking at an incident and he's thinking, is he trying to con me there?

There's a big head snap, there's...

two arms up yeah and and i think you know there's no real reason for it now because you know var is going to look at everything and if they see the contact they'll call it but again there's those like today you know where we talked about is the call on the field will always get the benefit of the doubt

If the call in the field is made penalty for Mbappe, it stays.

But because of the exaggeration, maybe the referee says, well, I'm not going to call it.

And therefore, if VAR shows that it's clear and obvious, I'll come back.

It wasn't clear and obvious.

No penalty.

So the classic example of that was mid-week, wasn't it?

It was a Pomecano on Vinicius Junior, where English referee Michael Oliver gestured after it that there was a coming together, but in his mind it was very minimal and that Vinicius had basically thrown himself to the ground, which is how most people read it.

So yeah, that has got an effect.

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