Caught the first 10 as I took time away from the wedding celebrations I was at and I’ve noticed this common comment.
3 minutes in and a commentator will mention that one team or the other has started brightly and then when the other team has a shot about 6 minutes they will flip that they weathered the storm.
When in fact both teams have had one shot each. Unless one team actually has peppered the goal in the first two mins.
I’ve been going on and on non-stop about how pundits are basically overpaid rubbish. But somehow people feel as though they add something to the game?
My favourite matches to watch on TV now are those on Amazon, since you can pick a stream without commentary, just stadium noise.
Probably 50-50. I think there is mitigation given what Kane was also doing and it looked more like an attempt to get Kane’s hands off him than a purposeful slap in the face, but Im not going to complain if a red is given without a Kane over reaction.
But the fact you cite another incident in which a player put his hands in the opponent’s face demonstrates that you still have a judgement call to make to determine if it is violent conduct and the game has found itself in an absurd situation in which the primary factor appears to be whether the player has thrown himself to the floor, and people will accept that as a red even while acknowledging it was a blatant case of play acting.
Yeah. Been going on for years.
Think back to the Pepe Reina red card on the twat Arjen Robben.
“But you cant stick you face in an opponent’s face”
Cool, unlike your 50/50 on the red, I just assume that VAR gives a red regardless of Kane’s actions leading up to it (and I’ve not said otherwise). I don’t think Kane’s action influenced the end result, in this situation. Maybe the ref doesn’t give a red, but VAR likely would have then told him to go look at it, at which point I suspect the red is flashed.
100% agree that players throw themselves to the floor to trick the refs, and more often than not, it works (more for yellow cards than reds). I fucking hate it - which was what my original post was all about - Kane being a knob for hitting the deck.
Ryan babbel put up his hands to protect himself and got red.
Maybe Docoure deserves the red for putting his hands up to Kanes face.
But a braver ref would give Kane a yellow for feigning injury.
Kane got a yellow.
For his reaction?
Misses our game then if the 8 games is true.
FA are intending to appeal the independant refulators passing of punishments. They want the bans to be longer.
Does anyone give Brighton a fair chance at top 4?
They’ve got a chance but the issue is there run is tougher than ours.
I think Newcastle will do it to be honest. Depends how much Spurs and Man Utd fall off.
Docoure was stupid for putting his hand in Kane’s face. It wasn’t flat either, he had his finger in the shape of a claw, which tells me he wasn’t too fussed about finding an eye. He gave the ref a reason to give him a red, and he obliged.
Kane let himself down with his ridiculous reaction. I don’t think much of the man, so he didn’t go down in my book, but it was pathetic.
Interestingly, right at the start of the game another Everton player had their hand in Kulusevki’s face, and it left a red mark below his eye and on his cheek.
Don’t know if Dyche is training them to do it, or it it’s all unlucky.
Also Onana on Porro. A pattern?
West Ham unlucky not to be 1 up inside 40 seconds…Bowen breaking away on the right cuts it back and Guimares almost scores an OG, hits the post.
1-0 Wilson