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Ref Watch is back to debate another batch of controversial decisions from the midweek football fixtures. Former top-flight referee Dermot Gallagher joined Rob Wotton in the Sky Sports News HQ studio to go through a number of contentious calls after a full Premier League midweek schedule.From debatable tackles to penalty decisions, we have picked out a number of incidents which were reviewed during Thursdays Ref Watch. MATCH: Arsenal v Swansea, WednesdayINCIDENT: Ashley Williams scores a 74th-minute winner from Gylfi Sigurdssons free-kick. The goal was given. Ashley Williams bundled the ball in after a cross from a free-kick SCENARIO: Williams converts Sigurdssons free-kick past Petr Cech, but Arsene Wenger felt the Swansea captain may have handled the ball as well as being in an offside position.GALLAGHERS VIEW: Correct decision.GALLAGHER SAYS: I dont think its handball at all. I can understand why he [Wenger] thinks that, it looks like the ball hits his arm. When you actually see it, he lifts his arm, comes off his thigh and it goes in.The ball has just been kicked and you would say its just been so tight [to give offside]. Youve got to give the benefit of the doubt to the attacker. The assistant is well within his rights to keep his flag down, its not obvious so you could not say its definitely offside. MATCH: Liverpool v Manchester City, WednesdayINCIDENT: Manchester City appeal for a penalty after deeming James Milners goal-line clearance was handball. No penalty was given. Did James Milner handle Agueros header off the line? SCENARIO: David Silvas cross is met by Sergio Aguero, but Milner blocks it on the line, raising suspicions of handball. Referee allows play to continue.GALLAGHERS VIEW: Correct decision.GALLAGHER SAYS: Good block I think. He leans in, his arms are down by his side but I think he definitely takes it on his chest.MATCH: Leicester v West Brom, TuesdayINCIDENT: Stephane Sessegnon is booked for reacting to a challenge by Christian Fuchs, moments before Danny Drinkwater scores for Leiecester. Fuchs appeared to plant his foot on Sessegnons ankle SCENARIO: With Leicester 1-0 down, Drinkwater scored an equaliser in the 30th minute but Sessegnon was booked after the goal for his reaction to a challenge by Leicester defender Fuchs in the build-up to the goal.GALLAGHERS VIEW: Foul: Wrong decision. Reaction: Correct decision.GALLAGHER SAYS: My first reaction when I saw it was no foul [by Fuchs]. When you see it again from a different angle its definitely a foul. Its a yellow card at least, bordering on a red card. Hes [Sessegnon] berated the official too much and Mark Clattenburg has backed the assistant, and the assistant thinks it wasnt a foul.MATCH: Arsenal v Swansea, WednesdayINCIDENT: No action taken on Jordi Amat for his tussle with Mesut Ozil before Wayne Routledge scores to level the match at 1-1. Ozil and Amat: Should the referee have blown for a foul? SCENARIO: Amat makes a challenge on Ozil before Routledge goes through to score. Referee Robert Madley allows play to continue and the goal was given.GALLAGHERS VIEW: Correct decision.GALLAGHER SAYS: I think its 50-50 to be honest. Its strong. Hes [Amat] gone in fairly and to play the ball. Both players are grappling. Correct decision by the referee.MATCH: Stoke v Newcastle, WednesdayINCIDENT: No action taken on Geoff Cameron by referee Neil Swarbrick for a challenge on Aleksandar Mitrovic. Geoff Cameron was not booked for putting his hand in Aleksandar Mitrovics face SCENARIO: Cameron appeared to block a run by Mitrovic by putting his hand across the strikers face. The referee awards a free-kick to Newcastle but Cameron gets no caution.GALLAGHERS VIEW: Wrong decision.GALLAGHER SAYS: Hes a very lucky boy. Very lucky. When you put your arm in somebodys face like this you run a massive risk. His hand is actually in his face, he comes round the back. Its not nice. Hes lucky to have just given away a free-kick and not even get spoken to. I would say a minimum yellow card, maybe a red card depending on where hes caught him.MATCH: Manchester United v Watford, WednesdayINCIDENT: A free-kick is awarded to Manchester United after Anthony Martial goes down under a challenge from Miguel Angel Britos. Dermot Gallagher feels Anthony Martial deceived the referee SCENARIO: Martial jinked past a couple of defenders before being felled by Britos roughly 25 yards out, the referee gave a free-kick and Juan Mata scored what proved to be the winning goal.GALLAGHERS VIEW: Wrong decision.GALLAGHER SAYS: It doesnt look a foul, he [Martial] just goes down. Hes deceived the referee. When you see it again its definitely not a foul. Martial would get a yellow card for deceiving the referee if he saw it.MATCH: Manchester United v Watford, WednesdayINCIDENT: Sebastian Prodl and Matteo Darmian tussled in the Man United penalty area. No penalty was given. Sebastian Prodl tussles in the box with Matteo Darmian SCENARIO: An in-swinging corner by Ben Watson was met by the head of Prodl, but the Austria international goes down after battling with Darmian.GALLAGHERS VIEW: Correct decision.GALLAGHER SAYS: Both players were at it. Its just what we see week-in, week-out. MATCH: Norwich v Chelsea, TuesdayINCIDENT: Diego Costa receives the ball appearing to be in an offside position before scoring. A goal was awarded. Diego Costa was offside when he scored against Norwich on Tuesday night SCENARIO: Bertrand Traore clips the ball through to Costa, who chips over John Ruddy and into the back of the net. The Chelsea striker looked to be standing in an offside position but the linesmans flag stays down.GALLAGHERS VIEW: Wrong decision.GALLAGHER SAYS: The assistant was in the wrong position when that ball is played. When you watch it again the linesman moves back upfield and the ball actually goes that way so hes deceived himself because hes moved the wrong way. Also See: Wenger: Confidence is going Poch: We struggled with long ball LVG taking it step by step McClaren remains defiant Air Max Mens Australia .Y. -- Jayna Hefford scored the winning goal Friday as Canada survived a scare with a 4-3 win over Sweden at the Four Nations womens hockey tournament. 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Michigan State has had enough success under Mark Dantonio that the Spartans have probably earned the benefit of the doubt -- one terrible season doesnt necessarily mean the program is in decline.But the pressure is on to show 2016 was an aberration.Michigan State staggered to a 3-9 finish this season, winning only one game in conference play. A year ago, the Spartans made it to the national semifinals after winning their second Big Ten title in three seasons, but they followed that up with one of the biggest collapses of any team in the country. Michigan State is missing out on a bowl for the first time in Dantonios 10 seasons at the helm.What I think that we need to do is take this opportunity. What Ive always tried to do was that whatever situation was thrown at us, Ive tried to see the positive in that situation and try to deal with that situation, Dantonio said after his teams 45-12 loss at Penn State to end the season. In this case, the positive is that we start early. We start discovering who we are, what we need to fix, who were recruiting, whos coming in, and what we have to do. That all starts at an earlier time now.Almost nothing went right for the Spartans this season. With Connor Cook in the NFL, Michigan State turned to fifth-year senior Tyler OConnor at quarterback, but the passing game never approached the level needed for the Spartans to beat quality opponents. Damion Terry and Brian Lewerke also played. Lewerke, a redshirt freshman, had what seemed like an opportunity to establish himself as the quarterback of the future, but he broke his leg in late October.Defensively, Michigan State no longer resembled the aggressive, disruptive unit that could shut down other Big Ten teams when Pat Narduzzi was the coordinator. The Spartans managed only 11 sacks all season and werent great against the run, despite the presence of star defensive lineman Malik McDowell.Throughout thhe season, weve had our struggles, but a lot of times, theyre saying, `Michigan States so young.dddddddddddd Theyre so young. Theyre so young, junior linebacker Chris Frey said Saturday. Starting tomorrow, nobodys young anymore. Guys have had a full season and a spring under their belt. Theyre going into their second spring. Guys got to make that extra leap forward in their game. They got to learn to study film harder. They got to hit the weight room harder.There were a couple bright spots for Michigan State. LJ Scott rushed for 994 yards as a sophomore, including 160 in a near-upset of Ohio State late in the season. Freshman receiver Donnie Corley made contributions both on offense and in the secondary and showed plenty of promise for the future.After by far the worst season in Dantonios tenure, there are naturally some questions about what the coaching staff can do differently, but he gave no indication that anyone will be fired.Well look at what we do as a staff, but Im not even considering letting any of our staff go, he said.For the Spartans, 2015 was a glorious year, not just because they made it to college footballs four-team playoff, but because of the teams they had to outlast to get there -- Jim Harbaugh and Michigan and Urban Meyer and Ohio State. This season, those two rivals left Michigan State behind, and its up to the Spartans to bounce back quickly in whats clearly become a brutally difficult division.This season was quite a wake-up call.I think guys are going to realize, This is not who we are, and we dont want this anymore, Frey said. Were playing a lot of great teams, and we just got to be better.---More AP college football: www.collegefootball.ap.org and https://twitter.com/AP-Top25 .---Follow Noah Trister at www.Twitter.com/noahtrister ' ' '