Of course there is a point to it, it will make all parties be more cautious.What's the point? PGMOL declared open season on City players after the derby.
I read this post as performative poetry—it really put some meat on the bones.Leaving aside the posters above trying to score points on side issues and points
The thread is over City wanting a meeting with Riley and co, citing x9 challenges
Not one of those challenges received a red card, all from various fully accredited
refs, all thought to be at top of their game, in view of riley as reffing premiership.
I've not seen all the coverage however the high majority of tv presenters confirmed
red card challenges. So the question is how and or why are these refs not viewing
these as red card challenges. In my view we should simply first ask riley how many
of these challenges does he, albeit with slow mo and different angles view as reds.
If he agrees majority are, then he needs to answer the second question, how & why?
Some of these refs and their assistants can "see" player 2 inches offside the other
side of the pitch, although seen to be incorrect, yet they cannot "see" red card challenge
x10 yards in front of them.
Our last home was a disgrace of a performance from all the officials. Just disgraceful.
I would have thought majority of refs reffing City home games should have a better chance
of being in best position to view challenges as they spend most of the game only having to
run x25 yards backwards and forwards due to our possession in opposition half stats........!
No foul was given.It’s time we dealt with this issue. We should be complaining about 10. I’d add Bournmouth’s Daniels on Gabby Jesus. Gabby was sent flying by that one. Was he given just a yellow?
I’d fully support re-visiting yellows and
unpunished dangerous fouls.
Let’s turn this a little about face, it’s not too difficult to imagine this scenario:
It’s the penultimate game of the season, WBA are fighting a relegation battle and need 3 points desperately. The same kind of career threatening challenge goes in on the opposition’s striker, who gets away with being stretchered off with a clean, single fracture to his tibia.
Would the BBC dismiss this as ‘the type of tackle that any defender makes’?
No! WBA are playing Spurs in this game and Harry Hotspur is out of the World Cup.
Manchester City fan sites warned you, NBCSN warned you, Manchester City F.C. warned you, BBC Sport dismissed it as did PGMOL
Totally agree there was bookings today that would not have been last week,and it was a pretty clean game todayOf course there is a point to it, it will make all parties be more cautious.
I think its already done a job today, firstly there were no really bad tackles on our players, and the one cynical hack, by maguire on KdB earned an immediate booking, it was poor, but more professional than dangerous.
I think highlighting it will benefit us in general, though we need to be cautious that ours will be more severely punished as a result.
Says it all. Ridiculous!No foul was given.
If KDB or similar has his career ended from a horrendous tackle it will end up in court. Imagine then it had been highlighted previously & ignored by Riley & co & the shite from his career gets dragged up.
I would imagine this request for a meeting was sent from the legal dept & not ona party invitation.
The article is on Sky's site. Could it be a sign the tide is turning?