I avoid the news like the pague, nothing to do with a city agenda or anything but more that I studied Journalism at university and, as far as I am concerned, this put hte fail nail in the coffin that proves the entire media - from the BBC to the Sun - Are nothing but money grabbing, audience pleasing, hysteria creating cretins and I will have nothing to do with them.
I did however break my tradition after our win against liverpool because I wanted to see just exactly how bad they are reacting to it. With all this in mind I was honestly flabbergasted by the reaction to the Red Card.
"Never a red Card" They scream "He's not that sort of player" They plead "he's got every right to go for it" They 'inform' "Ederson lowered his head!" They point out - The last one being my favourite as this implies that Ederson ( A keeper who cannot use his hands) deserved to be kicked in the face because he went for the ball as any normal player with any decency and proper awareness would do.
*Quick Note:* I have spoilered parts of the post because I realise I went on a rather Loquacious post.
It's interesting because we have ex-pros telling us they would have gone for it, and had they in the same way mane did, they would have been sent off as well.
Ederson has his head down, slightly. But he is taller than Mane (6'2", 5'9" Respectively) and naturally needs to in order to head the ball and yet he still recieved studs straight into the side of his face. The bending over argument is fine if the player in question has bent fully at the waist to obviously play for the foul - Something not uncommon in football - but Ederson had lowered his height slighty to head it as this was the safest way to deal with the balls trajectory, and I'm assuming he would think that Mane will go in for the head as well.
The other thing they all say is It's unintentional Which has about as much relevence to how this incident should be governed as what colour my socks are to what I will be eating for dinner. The oft' quoted rule is that intentional or not endangerouring an opponent with reckless behaviour is serious foul play and will, inevitably, lead to a red card. Rightfully so I'm sure anyone who has played football will agree. And I cannot think of anything more reckless than essentially karate kicking at a ball around your head height with an opposing player also approaching, in fact a case could be made for severe negligence or even intent from Mané, although to be honest I doubt the intent, it was obviously a misjudgement of edersons speed, starting position and desire to win that ball - But this is not a defence. You are responsible for others safety as much as you are. Hence putting rules like this one into play.
But then why was he trying to get his foot to it. If you have played football you can see mane was trying to nudge the ball away around Ederson which implies he's knows Ederson is there. If he doesn't Know Ederson is there, why lead with the foot in such a way that Close control is impossible? Doesn't add up.
There is only one place that this is not a red card and that's the world of the media. Far be it from them to insinuate to their loyal markets and biggest source of revenue/clicks that their team did something wrong. No, they are in fact the victims because that's what people who read the news want to be told, they want to be told that everything is against them and people will read and pay for what they agree with. (Any one who disagrees with this can take it up with the human conciousness rather than me as I have little time to waste replying on it's behalf) and a Mane red card earlish into a game that was 1-0 and ended up 5-0 is the perfect way to perpetuate this illusiion and so the die was cast and once again Liverpool were hard done to. Nothing is made of Liverpools failure to adapt tactics, nothing is made of the way even though it was an attacker they lost Liverpools Back 4 were still split easier than a Kinder-egg and Mignolet didn't do himself any favours.But who would pay to read that? Definitely not the antiquated fans who yern for a time where Red ruled Football.
Last night a Newcastle player called ritchie performed a foul that was oddly familiar and only recieved a yellow card. Conviently just a day after a faux media outrage erupted because a player was rightly sent off for kicking an opposing player in his face. Before I continue I will state I am not trying to say this was planned or anything, I'm not crazy. However, the media caught on and are now questioning why was this one different, what made them different etc. etc. Truly great timing for a profession that thrives on conflict, disinformation and hatred.
It is interesting that in the past two league games city have had controversial red cards given against them. There were a few whispers when Walker was sent of for "glancing menancingly at an opponent who then fell over". Followed by cries of indifference when Sterling was given his marching orders after celebrating with some fans who had gotten access to the pitch. But then what followed this? A Sky news Poll on what the fuck was the ref thinking/Were City the victim of a horrible, tragedy of a ref decision? Columns and columns of ex-professionals with clearly defined aligences and about the same brain-capacity as the chair I'm currently sat on? No, they were forgotten, city told to suck it up - "These things even up eventually" (although I'm sure many agree we are still waiting for our decisions to even out and I'm not sure a very blatent red card decision for what would amount to an assault of the playing field warrents a decision "In our favour" And sterling once again vilified for just doing his job
What's the upshot of this? Well, Moss made a damn good decision and in the heat of the moment, in a huge game early on, remarkable credit for that and what is his reward? he is hounded because people want it to be the wrong decision, it's played on repeat, he's told he's essentially ruining the games with his anal aplication of the rules. How dare he? The question we then need to ask is why should he bother in the future? Why should any of them? Why should they risk being demoted because the occupational equivalant of the dunking stool, hound him and his employers for making the 'wrong' decision? I strongly believe, and would argue that it's basic human psyche, that it's not worth the hassle for them. Why should they apply laws properly when a lackidasical application of basic rules gets far less coverage as long as they are to an outlier of the circle of media darlings and no-one questions their decisions for longer than Gary neville can bother talking about? There's no reason unless you are a pillar of virtue. And, I apologise to any professional refs reading this, I highly doubt any of them exist. Prove me wrong Anthony Taylor.
It honestly astounds me that people believe there's no agenda in the press and come on here and argue to that point. In fact I find it harder to believe people actually feel this way than there is an inherent bias in the press, and this entire red card situation has once again reinfornced my beliefs. And as for the hatred and bile Sterling gets, well it leaves me speechless.
When the sole reason to create news is to make money you know the press is dead.
What makes me laugh is a player goes in for a slide tackle, with there foot off the ground studs up and catches a player in the shin. Red card all day. Our goalie gets kung fu kicked in the face with studs 6 ft off the ground. Not a red haha makes me laugh.
the sad and somewhat annoying thing is that it has probably always taken fury or outrage from one of English footballs 'darlings' for the issue of inconsistency to be discussed as a serious concern. To be fair the dippers have a point, the Ritchie one was at least as bad in that his foot was as high but then again, he didnt catch him so in that respect it clearly isnt. whatever though, its the dippers so fuck em.
All I can say is thank Christ he was suspended.
Just imagine the backlash if he had scored against them and dared to celebrate at his own stadium.
Just how bitter can some journos be..,
The Metro claims to bring 'News..but not as you know it'. That makes me laugh, but not as much as The Daily Mirror which refers to itself as 'The intelligent Tabloid'
sorry if this has already been mentioned, ive gone back a few pages and cant see any mention of it, but due to my iptv picture being scrambled for the match i only saw highlights on MOTD saturday, but yesterday i manged to see the highlights from SKy, feck me, tyler and neville should be sacked for their pitiful commentating. tyler sounded gutted every time we scored! there was no enthusiasm when a goal was scored, unlike his joyful excitement whenever rashford slams one in. His lack of enthusiasm stood out a mile in the highlights, was he like that all game?? shocking and unprofessional.
sorry if this has already been mentioned, ive gone back a few pages and cant see any mention of it, but due to my iptv picture being scrambled for the match i only saw highlights on MOTD saturday, but yesterday i manged to see the highlights from SKy, feck me, tyler and neville should be sacked for their pitiful commentating. tyler sounded gutted every time we scored! there was no enthusiasm when a goal was scored, unlike his joyful excitement whenever rashford slams one in. His lack of enthusiasm stood out a mile in the highlights, was he like that all game?? shocking and unprofessional.
sorry if this has already been mentioned, ive gone back a few pages and cant see any mention of it, but due to my iptv picture being scrambled for the match i only saw highlights on MOTD saturday, but yesterday i manged to see the highlights from SKy, feck me, tyler and neville should be sacked for their pitiful commentating. tyler sounded gutted every time we scored! there was no enthusiasm when a goal was scored, unlike his joyful excitement whenever rashford slams one in. His lack of enthusiasm stood out a mile in the highlights, was he like that all game?? shocking and unprofessional.
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