oldman wrote:Im totally unbiased and have no affiliation with either club. Id say its a bit rich to call "haymakers" being thrown. Looks like hes trying to make an attempt to handball the ball so not to get paid holding the ball. "haymakers" would normally be reserved to someone "king hitting" or visably winding up to punch someone. The knee dropping is not a great look but again very little force used. Umpire handled it well.
It looks to me as though the knee was used with minimal force to stop the little jabs to the kidney area that the umpire wouldn't have seen from his angle.
Not a lot in it in any instance and the umpire can only judge on what he could see which appeared to be holding the ball from his angle.