I agree, I also agree with a lot of the responses below that if it had been on an Everton player we'd all be screaming for a pen.

The issue here is that back in the good old days before we started microscopically going over every incident in every game, most of the football world screams for a pen, because they've seen one of their players go down in the box, they haven't really seen what's gone on but they know their team needs a goal and they are desperate for anything they can get.

If the ref waves play on, they have a moan about it in the moment, probably one in the pub after the match and then its forgotten and we all move on.

Nowadays however we have pricks like Shearer making a living out of creating every single narrative they can to justify the penalty shout....even if its in direct contradiction to their justification for the last penalty shout and the world can't keep on moving until everyone gets closure at this perceived injustice.

The clubs at the top end of the scale have more supporters to be outraged, more freinds in the media to support their case, so inevitably the 'injustices' that go against them get more clout in the national conscience.

Roll forward a couple of decades of this cryarsing nonsense and we now have players that are happy to accept contact and fall in the box, even if they are actually denying thmeselves a better goalscoring opportunity if they'd stayed on their feet

Everyone involved in regulating the game from the refs, to the VAR fellas to the suits in charge, are subconsciously terrified of giving anything that might outrage those loudest voices so they get the majority of these decisions in their favour and so the penalty count is disproptionately in favour of these teams every single year and the rest have no chance of a level playing field when coming up against them.