How the **** is stephens a red card for soton. Slight pull on cucerlla hair. Woeful decision. Get a fuckin hair cut
Nonsense. They know the rules. He’s the club captain as well so had a ref meeting at the start of the season. They know pulling hair is deemed violent conduct. He knew he was gone. It wasn’t a woeful decision. You might not agree with the rule but you can’t blame the ref or var for it. Their job is upholding the laws of the game, not deciding what they are.
Shocking if thats the rule. Who ever came up with that needs sackin. It wasnt even a proper pull thr spanish **** weny down like hed bin shot. Wat the **** has hsppened to our game
The most annoying thing is, last season, Chelsea against Spurs. Much worse than what happened last night - yet look what happened. Inconsistency. I'm really not sure we will ever have better referees. Its one thing after another, with some calls being ridiculously easy to get right, yet somehow getting them so wrong.
The fundamental problem is VAR isnt any new technology to help the game. It just gives the same community of referees, who have time and again shown inconsistency, more insights in which to be even more inconsistent. Most other sports have added technology while retaining the spirit of the game and its nuances and natural errors ie DRS in Cricket. What do we try to make officiating perfect when the game itself isnt. my suggestion is we let fans run VAR . Same outcome just more extreme
But putting your hands round a player's throat is perfectly ok? I assume no action was taken because the officials "didn't see it". I wonder if the McGeehan three match ban based on TV footage will be invoked?
It was the spurs incident last season that forced the clarification. Bit daft but rules is rules - Stephens knew very well what he’d done too.
[QUOTE="Brush, post: ]But putting your hands round a player's throat is perfectly ok?[/QUOTE] No. Not really relevant either. James McClean is an odious cretin who gets away with this kind of thing I’d argue because he made himself some kind of political martyr. He should have been sent off. He wasn’t. He should be retrospectively banned - he can’t be as the ref booked him so they can’t revisit it.
No. Not really relevant either. James McClean is an odious cretin who gets away with this kind of thing I’d argue because he made himself some kind of political martyr. He should have been sent off. He wasn’t. He should be retrospectively banned - he can’t be as the ref booked him so they can’t revisit it.[/QUOTE] Yet another bit of football law nonsense. I remember this piece of slime making a show of turning his back on his team mates around the centre circle during a Remembrance two minutes silence for “political reasons “, or was it religion? It seems he’s untouchable for fear of upsetting his beliefs. I don’t usually despise footballers but I make an exception for this one.
So the ref or an assistant saw him with his hands round O'Keefe's throat and only thought that worth a yellow card???? I'm gobsmacked
Why in the first place would he need to pull Cucerlla hair You'd be the first to complain, no doubt if you were in Cucerlla's boots..plus imagine the uproar if it had happened to one of ours Unfortunately it also highlights the discrepancies between referees when dealing with situations ...ie O'Keefes situation the other night Red card every day for me , they know the rules....and well done the ref for applying the rules to the letter.
**** happens to our players alot and refs do **** all. The cucurella one is joke and he is a complete pussy going down like that.
You do realise if we played at a higher level those things that happened to our players would get punished due to the same VAR system you're currently sat here crying about?
I'd ask that more about Stephens than the rules or VAR. Pulling a player's hair on a football pitch? Pathetic! Absolutely should be a red card.
