Did you take your little 'un to the game today, old mate? Or did I see you taking part in some sort of child kidnapping?
Easy to be level headed when you aren't in a fight for a team to win and you are sitting on your arse at a keyboard isn't it. ..
Not a red for me. Firstly, there should have been a free-kick in our favour as the ref acknowledged Scowen was fouled and as Hecky said, what advantage is there 6 yards outside your own box? Then all Scowen did was challenge fairly for the ball with no intent to hurt Parker. The reason it looked bad was that Scowen went in at speed. But he was in control. Parker ain't daft and knew his reaction could make it seem worse. Never a red 20 years ago and shouldn't be today in my opinion. If players have to pull out of tackles purely because they have momentum then the game loses something.
There was a free kick to us, which the ref gave and we took after Scowen had gone off. Not a red 20 years ago, but definitely one under the current guidance. Foot off floor, studs showing. Sent from my MotoG3 using Tapatalk
I thought it had to be both feet off the floor with studs showing for it to be a straight red. Crikey if that is a red card then tackling may as well just be outlawed completely.
Parker was clever in showing nouce and experience to milk the challenge for all it's worth. We sadly only have Conor who plays on gamesmanship.
If you lunge at someone with your studs showing, going off your feet, and you make contact, it's a red card. It's dangerous. It doesn't take two sets of studs to break a leg.
I'm blind on this with not seeing any replays and only at the game today. JS got 'clipped' and rode 2 tackles which put him off his stride so he struggled to keep his footing and mistimed(not melicious) his tackle. The only advantage we had was that. Straight Red. And then our free kick. FFS. Common sense barrometer broken again!!!!!
I'll wager that we'll see many similar and worse challenges than that go either unpunished or receive a yellow card this season. I stand by my initial assertion that it was a very harsh red.
The other key thing to remember is that the only reason that he was s far from the ball was because HE had been fouled meaning he had to stretch to get to the ball. In other words their player fouling him caused the stretch and the 'foul' the other way. I wouldn't have even booked him
Same wnak ref at Ipswich, similar but worse challenge and without two preceding fouls on the perpetrator. Difference was it was by an Ipswich bloke on one of ours, therefore not a red.